Share your life experiences and create new memories!

Our Dovetree Aged Care Community located at Sinnamon Park is seeking volunteers to assist with the resident lifestyle program on weekdays between the hours of 9am and 4pm. The program includes a range of fun group activities for residents including:
  • Board and Card Games (Thursday afternoon)
  • Garden Walks (daily)
  • Craft (daily)
  • Bingo (Wednesday morning)
  • Cinema (Monday and Friday afternoon)
  • BBQ (Tuesday lunchtime).
Involvement in group activities or individual visits to residents can be organised. You can also utilise your own skills to facilitate an activity. These activities assist residents with improving fitness levels, promoting a sense of wellbeing and encouraging community connectedness. Most importantly they bring joy and create smiles!

The Lifestyle Assistant can assist residents by:
  • Escorting residents to and from the morning lifestyle program and assisting as required during the activity program
  • Visiting residents individually
  • Encouraging independence, friendship and fun
  • Being spontaneous and sharing life experiences
  • Providing companionship and a sense of belonging
  • Communicating resident feedback to staff to enhance resident enjoyment.
This volunteering role is suitable for people who have well developed interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills and display a calm and empathetic manner. Volunteering is a wonderful way to make a difference in the lives of our senior residents while making friends, having fun and learning new skills.

Volunteering hours at Dovetree are available weekdays (Monday to Friday). Morning and afternoon shifts are available between the hours of 9am and 4pm.

All of our volunteers follow a COVID-19 safe work plan and provide proof they have received their COVID-10 Vaccinations before commencement.
Our Aged Care communities are places of warmth, smiles and hugs, where residents enjoy a wonderful sense of life, fun, and friendship.

Wesley Mission Aged Care Communities have embraced the internationally-recognised Eden Alternative Philosophy of Care and are welcoming and rewarding places to volunteer where you will meet many wonderful people and learn great new skills that may assist you both personally and professionally. There are lots of other benefits to volunteering with us as well, such as:
  • Great education opportunities
  • Exclusive shopping discounts
  • Access to online and face-to-face wellness advisors
  • Free Vaccinations
  • Invitations to social events
  • Being part of a team that really is making a difference in the lives of seniors in our Aged Care Communities.
To learn more about WMQ Aged Care please visit our website
What Happens Next?
Before you consider becoming a volunteer we ask that you read:

Security Checks
As a legislative requirement, because you will be spending time with vulnerable people, and to keep all volunteers, staff, residents, and the public safe, it is a requirement that all active Wesley Mission Queensland volunteers have a current security check on file at all times.   
  • NDIS Worker Screening Check or NDIS Worker Screening Check and Blue Card Combined with more than six months till expiry.

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1. Please provide your personal details:

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2. Your date of birth?

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3. Please provide an emergency contact person for when you are volunteering:

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4. Do you have any special needs, time availability concerns, health issues, etc that you feel may affect your volunteer work or that we should know of in case of an emergency?

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5. Are you applying to volunteer with us as part of one of the following programs?

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6. Which activities would you be interested in volunteering in?

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7. Which day and time is the more preferable day you would like to volunteer?
Enter all your availability and we will try to find the best time for you.

  Morning Afternoon  Full Day
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8. Do you have any experience interacting with older persons, people with dementia or people with special needs?

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9. If required, are you physically able to push an occupied wheelchair?
Training is provided and pushing wheelchairs is optional in the role.

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10. Have you received the mandatory Influenza vaccination required to volunteer in residential aged care?
Between the beginning of May until the end of October proof will be required before commencing in a volunteer role.  You can download your proof of vaccination from the MyGov website.

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11. Do you have any of the following security checks? 
Checks must be presented at the initial orientation session

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12. Please outline any qualities, skills, qualifications or experience you can bring to the volunteer position:

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13. Are you able to provide proof that you have received your two initial COVID-19 vaccinations?

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14. If recruited as a Wesley Mission Queensland volunteer, I agree to work within the terms and guidelines as outlined in the below declaration.

I understand that as a volunteer with Wesley Mission Queensland that I will be expected to:  
  • Provide an ongoing commitment to the role.
  • Interact positively with residents, clients, staff, volunteers, families and the general public.  
  • Understand and respect confidentiality, maintain professional boundaries.
  • Volunteer within the guidelines of Wesley Mission Queensland's Code of Conduct.  
  • Undertake any education or competencies required for the position. 
  • Be prompt and reliable when rostered to volunteer and notify my supervisor promptly if I am not able to attend my shift.  
  • Work within the philosophies, policies, procedures, and guidelines of Wesley Mission Queensland.  
  • Provide proof that you have received the mandatory vaccinations prior to commencement and during your time volunteering with us.
  • Supply or complete the required security checks (checks are provided and paid for by Wesley Mission Queensland).  
  • Follow a COVID-19 safe work plan and provide proof I have received both COVID-19 vaccinations before commencement.

I have read, understood and are willing to follow the guidelines within the:

Please note that due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) restrictions, contact with volunteer applicants will take longer than usual. Your application will be kept on file until recruitment recommences.
Thank you for your patience during this time.

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