Bayside Volunteering

5th Sandringham Scouts is seeking Leaders to join our diverse group. We currently run three sections; Cub Scouts (8-10 year olds), Scouts (11-14 year olds) and Advantage Scouts which is an alternative group for additional needs.

We need support staff for our current leaders but are also wanting to start Joeys (5-7 yrs) and Venturers (15-17yrs) in 2020. Our membership has trebled in the last 2 years because we run fantastic programs and have heaps of fun doing it.

Our Group pays for all training and significant travel costs, We have a great culture and all the opportunites Scouts has to offer to access activities world  wide.

All types of people make great Leaders. The training is fantastic and we don't take ourselves too seriously. There are many self development tools availabe and training is recognized outside of Scouting. This is a great place to get experience and looks impressive on your CV.  It is very rewarding helping youth relize their potential and become great citizens in the process. There are different roles available with different levels of required commitment. 

Contact Jane and have a chat.

Website Manager

MotoAid is a register charity based in Sandringham.  We work to enable the delivery of health care for communities living in remote and rural areas where there are no roads. Helath care is delivered either on foot or on motorbikes.  These communities suffer the worst health care outcomes.  

We need a volounteer to update and manage our website.  The website is the "face" of the organisation.  We need our website to be up to date and reguarly updated and maintained to reflect the organisations activities.  Our website was developed three years ago.  It is a wordpress site.

Our current program is training the midwives in Timor Leste who use motorbikes to deliver maternity and infant care to families across Timor Leste.  Over 50% of whom live wher ther is no access for 4 wheel vehicles.  Matenal and infant mortality rates are the highest in our region. 

The volounteer will have experience with website maintenance.  They will update the site and reguarly post current acitivities and projects so it reflects the acitivity of our organisation.

This position is flexible in it's time as the volounteer can work from home.  We will communicate reguarly.  The volounteer can attend our meetings but this is not a requirement of the position.  

This position can extend to managing all our social media.  We have a facebook page and a twitter account.  But this is not a requirement.  Our priority is having the webpage well managed and maintained. 

If you require further information please contact me.

  LEARNING SUPPORT TUTORS NEEDED

FOR CHILDREN WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS

Cystic Fibrosis (CF)  is a life-limiting condition affecting 3,500 Australians.  Many school aged children often have long hospital admissions and frequent school absences, leading to them missing out on vital learning opportunities.

If you are currently studying at University or are a retired teacher or CRT then we need your support and help.

 As a learing support tutor , you will be helping the student with their homework tasks and working closely with their classroom teacher.

Tutors will have th freedom to work either remotely online or in person, and the time you  spend is totally flexible.

Come and join our team.

You could make a real difference to a child's life.

Contact us now:   janine@catchtheclouds.org

Waverley Industries is currently looking for more volunteers to assist our employees in completing labelling and packaging tasks. 

Our Volunteers work in the Packaging Department along side our employees. There is no heavy lifting involved and the tasks are light duty tasks such as assembling products into boxes & labelling. 

Our employees have great sense of humour and love to have fun. They love a laugh and meeting new people. 

We have 2 sites across Melbourne - Notting Hill & Hallam. 

Call us today for a rewarding volunteer opportunity on 9293 7906 & ask for Manda. or email your expression of interest to manda.saric@wavind.org 

Department: Childcare and Early Learning Centre (CELC)

Time Commitment:  One day per week (Mon, Tue, Thur 9.00am-12.30pm;                    Wed, Fri – 9.00am to 1.30pm)

Program Objective: To assist the CELC’s Manager and staff in providing high-quality care and stimulating activities for children 0 – 5 yrs

Specific Duties:                 

1. Greet parents and welcome children
2. Interact positively with and care for children
3. Comfort and assist children requiring individualised care and attention
4. Set up and pack up toys and learning activities as required
5. Assist with children’s activities and learning experiences
6. Become familiar with the Allergy Plan noticeboard, noting the children in your group who have asthma or anaphylaxis
7. Supervise children eating food, helping make it a pleasant social experience while ensuring the food provided is in line with the Centre’s ‘no nuts’ policy. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own snack so they can eat with the children.
8. Maintain a high level of hygiene and safety, providing a good model for children in these areas e.g. cleaning hands before handling food
9. Wear sunsmart hats in the outdoors area in Terms 1 and 4
10. Assist with the end of day pack up
11. Perform other appropriate tasks as directed by staff

Skills Required:                 

1. Ability to work in a team
2. Caring attitude
3. Previous experience in childcare or similar preferred but not essential
4. Awareness and use of appropriate ‘positive’ language

 Training and Support:

- Orientation to Sandybeach Centre.

- When appropriate and available, Sandybeach Centre will provide professional development opportunities to volunteers related to early childhood education, health, safety and first aid.

*All volunteers are required to do a trial day before being offered a position

Department:          REACH and REACH Respite

 Position:                Volunteer Bus Jockey

 Reports to:            Driver & Program Coordinator/s

 Time Commitment:    Varies according to the individual program

Program Objective:  To provide the opportunity and encouragement for older people to improve their wellbeing through social involvement and education programs

Volunteer Duties:

1. To provide support to the mini bus driver during pick ups and drop offs for REACH & REACH Respite programs
2. To escort clients to and from the bus at their homes and at Sandybeach Centre
3. Ensure safety in the bus with seat belts and appropriate storing of walking aids and personal items
4. Provide support and socialise with clients
5. Provide individual support for clients during the program as directed by the tutor/coordinator
6. Assist in the kitchen with preparation of refreshments, including serving and cleaning up of as required

 Prerequisites:         

1. Desire to work with the elderly
2. General level of fitness required for getting in and out of minibus and lifting of light weight walking aids

Skills Required: 

1. Punctuality and reliability
2. Patience
3. Understanding the needs of the elderly

Training:                     

1. Orientation to Sandybeach Centre
2. On the job training provided by the program leader and/or coordinator
3. Opportunity to attend relevant training courses and workshops at Sandybeach Centre e.g. dementia/mental health workshops

Do you enjoy driving?
Do you enjoy the company of older people?
Great volunteer role for the right person:

The REACH Respite program provides respite for carers by providing a variety of programs for frail elderly people being cared for at home.  Part of the service that REACH Respite offers is individual transport for those who are unable to use our mini bus service.

In order to do this, we have a team of capable and willing volunteer drivers using their own cars, transport clients to and from the relevant program.  This is a music based afternoon involving sing along, simple music quizzes, afternoon tea and the opportunity to socialise. Clients are supported by a team of paid staff and volunteers.

Some conditions apply.  Partial petrol reimbursement is available

 New Family Life Op shop opening soon on Hampton St. We are looking for volunteers to create a new team and help us set up the shop. Bring along your skills , energy and perosnalities to help make this new shop a huge success and help Family Life deliver programs to support families in our Community. 

Retail experiece helpful but not neccessary as all new volunteers will be trained in sorting, pricing, merchandising, cash register etc.

You will be supported and welcomed by our enthusiastic  shop Manager .

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

The volunteer role requires teams of drivers and van jockeys to pick up and deliver donations of furniture, clothing, bric a brac and other items to our 4 oppertunity Shops in cheltenham, Highett, Chelsea and Black Rock.

The hours are felxible according to the needs of the shops and the amount of donations. Volunteers work within a happy, friendly team in a diverse range of jobs which change daily and are  based at our Warehouse in Moorabbin.

Volunteers must be able to undertake heavy lifting at times and be team players.

Family Life are looking for volunteers to work in their new Opportunity shop in Cheltenham. The new shop will be opening in February and this is a chance to join a brand new team of community minded people.  The money raised in our Social Entrerprises stays in our local community supporting families, children  and young people in need.

Give a young person an oportunity!  Without a licence getting to work, going out and moving forward is difficult.  All young people in Victoria are required to do 120 hours of logged driving as part of getting their licence through the TAC L2P program.  Many young people struggle to get these hours through forms of disadvantage including financial, access to a car, no one to drive with, etc. Jesuit Social Services TAC L2P Program works across the South East Suburbs helping young people with a background in either Child Protection, Youth Justice and/or Refuge Minor to get these hours through driving with a VOLUNTEER driving mentor in our cars.  Perhaps that is something you would like to do? 

Support clients with group exercise programs such as hydrotherapy/swimming or floor based Strength and  Balance training. 

The role of the Physiotherapy Service Volunteer is to work alongside CBCHS staff to assist clients with either group or water based exercise programs. The Physiotherapy program is delivered across multiple CBCHS sites including Parkdale, Chelsea, Clarinda & Bentleigh (aquatic program).

To progress your application you are invited to attend an information session as per the details below:

 Date: Tuesday 25th February 2020. Next session last Tuesday in March.

If your not able to make this session. We could book in a 1-1 on another day.

Time:  4.00 – 5.00 pm

Venue: CBCHS, 335 - 337 Nepean Hwy Parkdale (please report to main reception)

The aim of the information session is to provide you with further information including:  

• Introduction to volunteering at CBCHS
• Program areas to volunteer within the Physiotherapy service
• The role of the Physiotherapy volunteer
• Benefits of volunteering
• Recruitment packs and next steps

The session will be presented by staff from Primary Health and it will be an informal presentation and you will have opportunities to ask questions. If you choose to proceed with your application you will be provided with paperwork to complete on the day.

Help enrich the life of someone who is lonely by becoming a Community Visitor with the Community Visitor Scheme (CVS). The CVS is seeking volunteers who may speak either Russian, Greek, Italian, Polish or Arabic- Egyptian to visit older people either in their own homes or in an Aged Care Facility around Bayside, Kingston and Glen Eira. 

A Community Visitor is a Volunteer who is matched with a person living in their own home or Aged Care who may be lonely or isolated and who visits on a regular basis to provide friendship and companionship.

Visits can be spent doing something both the person and the volunteer enjoy - reading, listening to music, chatting, play a game and reminiscing or going for a walk or other outing.

We ask that volunteers commit to visiting for up to one hour once a fortnight, as a minimum (but you can visit more often if you like). We also ask that potential volunteers consider making the commitment for at least 12 months. 

We have some older men referred to us who are keen for a male volunteer to visit for mateship and conversation. 

Present CALD opportunities are in Brighton Aged Care (1 Greek, 3 Russian, 1 Polish, 1 Arabic), Cheltenham  Aged Care (1 Greek) and In Home visits Clayton and Clarinda (1 Greek/English). 85870102

A great opportunity for a volunteer who loves writing, has confidence using Word or Pages to produce an illustrated Newsletter, four or more times a year.

Do you love encouraging authors to submit articles such as a researched story, or even writing one yourself, and collecting articles from other various sources such as the President's Report etc. and puts it all together ? 

The newsletter showcases our Society and keeps members informed of events and what's going in their society - and it is greatly valued.

Our Resource Centre is located at 62 Bay Road Sandringham but you can work on this from home if you prefer.  

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.  

Do you love searching online for answers to questions about our history, on Trove, Google, etc ?

 Our historical society has a very large Collection, and over 13,000 items have been professionally catalogued by volunteers over the past couple of decades.  In the next week or two, the whole catalogue will be searchable online through our own web site  www.sandringhamhistorical.org.au and the online platform eHive.  

We receive enquiries from various sources: people who walk into our Resource Centre at 62 Bay Road Sandringham,  by email, facebook, web page and snail mail.  

Most of our Collection is still in hard copy but more and more of it is being digitised.  

We have many volunteers who are exceptionally knowledgable about our collection and very good at searching the hard copy files but we need additional volunteers who are adept at, and love to use the internet and other digital sources including our own digitised documents on our own computers.  

As this task is focussed on online research we believe that it could be done at home if this is better for you.  For example, you may have a fast computer with fast internet or live too far away to be able to come into our Resource Centre or may even have mobility issues which restrict your ability to come into the Resource Center but do not impair your ability to reseach online.  

We would love to hear from you to discuss this opportunity.  

Our historical society has many interesting requests for information relating to the history of people and places in Bayside, particularly, Sandringham, Black Rock, Beaumaris, Hampton, Hightett and Cheltenham.  

The requests for help come from five sources:  phone, email, our web page form, facebook, visitors to our resource centre and snailmail.    We would greatly enhance our service to the community with a friendly volunteer coordinator of these requests - could this be you?  

You are not required to do the research or find the answers yourself, although you are welcome to do so.   Our historical society is made up entirely of volunteers who are experienced with our collection.  

Quite a lot of the coordination could be done from home if preferred.  The task requires someone who has the skills to coordinate the enquiries by logging them into a spreadsheet or database, allocating the enquiry to one of our a research volunteers, noting when a reply goes to the enquirer and ensuring the payments are made to our Society.   This service is of great benefit to the community and we charge modest fees to research and copy material, in order to pay our running costs.  The fees can be paid by EFT, PayPal on our website, cheque or cash.  

Please don't hesitate to call or email if you have any queries about this position.  

Lorraine Huddle

President SDHS

RESEARCHER

Do you love history?  Especially our local Bayside history ?

We have ongoing requests for help to answer a great variety of questions about the history of places, people, events, objects, and other intriguing items relating to our local area.  

We also hold many unique historical documents that have been collected since the society was established in 1986, and these can be searched to find the answers to questions from the community.  Some of our recent aquisitions include thousands of  W. D. Rose funeral records from the 1880s to the 1960s,  and Masonic Lodge documents and memorabilia.  We also hold thousands of historic photographs and  we also require assistance with cataloguing our collection,  if that is a task you enjoy.  

If you would like to help us with this interesting and rewarding position, you could be involved with a one-off task or as a regular researcher.  We look forward to hearing from you.   

Mercy Place Fernhill is a not-for-profit provider of residential aged care who are looking for Volunteers to help with the following activities:

•  1:1 time
• Reading
• Art & Craft
• Providing Musical Entertainment for our Residents
• Accompany staff and Residents on outings

So if you have the time and would like to enrich the lives of our Residents and give back to the community we would love to have you as part of our team.

To find our more please Email hshackley@mercy.com.au