About the Role Weekly fun activity groups are hosted by CCC volunteers at local aged care facilities with the primary purpose of providing regular, cheerful and uplifting companionships to residents.  These relationships seek to stimulate social interaction and promote cognition, which includes singing songs, reading poems, reminiscing/reflecting on their lives, playing with sensory objects such as balls, keys, wool, newspaper, toys, and other day to day items. It is an opportunity to engage with the elderly who have very limited interaction with others by using these basic tools and ideas.

There are two or more volunteers facilitating these sessions, which usually have 6-8 residents attending, but these numbers are variable.

About You To thrive in our Volunteer Program we require the following:

• Positive and enthusiastic disposition
• Proactive mindset
• Relationship oriented – ability to connect individually and at a group level
• Strong team player
• Quick thinker – ability to adapt activity in accordance with group’s cognisance
• Good communication skills - listening
• Demonstrate empathy : a heart for working with the elderly