Kitchen Team Volunteer

Key information: Prepare a meal | Provide friendly hello’s and conversations | Fortnightly or monthly commitment | 9:30am to 1pm

What's involved

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Assist one of our choir programs, by helping with the preparation and service of a simple meal. 

  • While you’re preparing lunch for the choir, you’ll hear the joyous sounds of the choir rehearsing
  • Set up and clean up afterwards
  • You’ll meet new people too
  • We provide simple recipes and all food required and work to a pre-determined weekly menu

Do I need experience?

  • Basic food preparation skills (if you can prepare a meal at home, you’ll be perfect for us!)
  • You’ll be comfortable working within a team of three
  • We rely on our volunteers being independent workers, who can carry out their duties without supervision or support

Commitment?

  •  9:30am – 1pm – You can choose to help out fortnightly or monthly
  • Programs run for 45 weeks a year, closely aligned with school terms 
  • We’ll work with you to prepare a roster that suits you and the team
  • If you’re heading out of town or have other commitments, we’ll work around them
  • Willingness to gain a ‘Food Safety Certificate’ – free and organised by Upbeat Arts

How to apply

If you are excited about the prospect of volunteering with us, we would genuinely love to hear from you. 

Here are the next steps:

  • Complete the Application Form by clicking on the ‘apply now’ button below
    • Please be sure to include references and information about your experience and why you’d like to volunteer with us
  • Our local Program Leader will be in touch with you to organise a time for an introductory phone call.

As an accredited provider to Queensland Health, there’s some steps from there and we’ll help you through them in order to confirm your role as a volunteer.

  • We’ll need to conduct reference checks 
  • We’ll ask you to complete a quick and easy online form to ensure we have emergency contacts etc
  • You’ll need to have a valid Blue Card (we’ll help with this if you don’t have one)
  • We will provide you with our Upbeat Art Volunteer Handbook, and using that you’ll complete our online induction training

Most importantly, we’ll help you with any of the above, as needed. And most of it is only ever done once!

Thank you for your interest in joining the Upbeat Arts team. We look forward to discovering how you can bring your unique talents to Upbeat Arts and help us continue our mission of enhancing lives through the arts!

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Contact Information

For more details, please message us via our ‘Contact Us’ page.