Volunteer and make a difference to provide transport to children & young people to attend family visits, go to school, attend appointments & activities. Whether you want to gain a new experience or skill or simply just want to help others, you have something valuable to offer by volunteering with us. Volunteers are supported, respected & experience tasks they find rewarding to achieve positive outcomes for children & young people. Volunteers will be reimbursed for kms to & from the office.

About this Opportunity Become a volunteer with the Department for Child Protection. As a volunteer you will be supporting and assisting children. Tasks may include but not limited to:

• Transporting children or young people
• Individual or group support- helping in activities such as craft, music or outdoors
• Skill development, sharing a particular skill, how to shop for food or clothes
• Working with young people to obtain their probationary licence

We are always interested in hearing ideas for new ways our volunteers can assist. Volunteering is a two-way process. The many benefits to volunteering including -a sense of giving back to the community -personal satisfaction and improved well-being -social contact with other volunteers -adding value to your skills and experience to include on your resume -enhancing job opportunities with community involvement

As a volunteer you are provided with:

• orientation and training with ongoing support
• reimbursement for mileage to and from the office (Government vehicles are used for volunteer tasks. Volunteers are covered by the governments volunteer's insurance)
• required to apply for a Working With Children Check (WWCC). Volunteer coordinators are able to assist with the online process for the WWCC at no cost to you.

As a volunteer we ask you to be reliable and flexible. To be available for a reasonable amount of time this may be weekly, fortnightly or monthly on weekdays &/or weekends. We appreciate any time you are able to give and will work around your availability. Quote from a volunteer ' I saw a need to reach out to children in our community and I wanted to make a difference'.