Volunteers bring energy, ideas and community spirit to Holstep Health.
Our dedicated volunteers have helped shape our health services for 50 years, making us the thriving community-led health, welfare, and justice service we are today.
Our volunteers offer their time, knowledge, and lived experience to help build our community. With their support, we are able to offer client-focused services to people who are disadvantaged and/or vulnerable.
Our volunteers help:
- organise social groups and activities
- provide administrative support to our staff teams
- welcome clients to our social groups and support them in their activities
- drive clients to appointments
- and much, much more!
Whether you want to build skills for work, give back to the community, meet new people or take on a challenge, we have a wide range of volunteer roles to apply for that help make a difference.
Volunteering opportunities
- Volunteer with our Legal Service View the online portal for opportunties
- Volunteer with the Angels! The 3081 Angels meet every Friday to collect, sort and deliver children’s goods from local community members to families in need. Can you spare a few hours a month to help?
- Volunteer with Peer Connection Peer Connection volunteers have either experienced gambling harm themselves or have been impacted by another person’s gambling and offer one to one telephone peer support to others who are still struggling to stop or control their gambling. Are you available for around 3 hours per week to support others?
- Volunteer with ReSPIN ReSPIN volunteer community educators have either experienced gambling harm themselves or have been impacted by another person’s gambling and share their story of gambling harm and recovery with community and corporate groups, health care services and the media to educate, influence change and decrease stigma. Interested in becoming a ReSPIN volunteer?
- Active Living Volunteers – for local sport volunteering opportunities through Active Living please contact our Community Health Promotion team [email protected]
Frequently Asked Questions
Anyone and everyone! We are committed to making sure our volunteer teams reflect the rich diversity of the local community. We encourage applications from people of all ages, Aboriginal people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and from LGBTIQA+ communities. Let us know if you need support with the volunteer recruitment process.
Everyone who joins the Holstep Health volunteer team is offered support, guidance and ongoing training. Training may be a mix of online learning from home and onsite learning with a supervisor or in a group. Training requirements will differ depending on the role.
The wellbeing of our volunteers is vital to how we operate and grow our community. All roles are supervised and supported and have been created with input from volunteers. We provide a safe, welcoming and diverse workplace. Our volunteers are covered by insurance and are offered supervision, mentoring and recognition. We recognise that some volunteer roles may require additional support, such as those in lived experience settings. We offer all our volunteers free access to our Employee Assistance Program.
Yes, all volunteers are required to have:
- a police check (we pay)
- a certificate showing full vaccination for COVID-19
- roles which involve contact with children require a Working with Children check (free for volunteers)
Volunteers must complete all the checks and training required for their roles before they start.
Please call us on 9450 2041 or 9450 2667 to speak with a member of our human resources team or email us at [email protected]. We’re passionate about finding the right role for our volunteers and would love to chat with you!
Other opportunities
If you can’t see a role that suits you, keep checking back in or have a chat with the Diamond Valley Volunteer Hub on 9435 8282 – it is the volunteer resource centre for Banyule and Nillumbik and will know what other organisations are seeking volunteers in the area. The Hume Volunteer Gateway lists volunteer positions in the Hume and Merri-bek region.
The Learning Management System (LMS) for volunteers
Our volunteers are integral to our success in championing our vision for healthy and connected communities through better health and wellbeing, support and education.
To ensure you are best equipped and resourced, we provide a multitude of learning modules to develop and enhance your skills and knowledge. Our LMS is an easy to use online system, which you can access in your own time and at your own page.
As a volunteer you will have a few mandated training requirements such as:
- Equal opportunity,
- Workplace Bullying,
- Manual handling,
- Child Safety and
- LGBTIQA+ Inclusive Practice at Holstep Health.
Further online or face-to-face training opportunities can be found either within the LMS or our internal training page.
To access the LMS, follow the below instructions.
Instructions:
- Go to this LMS page
- Log in using your:
Email address: personal email you supplied as part of your onboarding
Password: Merri1 - Click on the ‘My Training’ tab – this will direct you to your ‘Course Library’.
- Once you have logged into your account, you will be directed to your personal eLearning account home page. The home page will show you your recent activity, your learning progress and what course/s you need to complete.
Further information on how to navigate a course is available in the ‘Help and Support’ tab on the home page.
If you have a question or need help, don’t delay, ask your line manager! Or email [email protected]
If you have a technical question and need support logging in, call our Service Help Desk (IT Team) on (03) 9389 2214.
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