Guide

How to write an application form

Keep in mind that your application is just one of many tools used to recruit, screen and place volunteers. You can use your volunteer application form to screen candidates and identify the best applicants.

Author : Indeed

Volunteer Screening Guide – 2021

Screening volunteers appropriately when you recruit them is a good way to engage the bestfit people for your Volunteer-Involving Organisation (VIO) and head off potential problems before they arise.

Author: Volunteering Victoria

How to Apply for a Police Check

A police record check provides a summary of your offender history in Australia.

It is usually requested by organisations as part of their recruitment process for staff and volunteers.

Police checks for volunteers who work with vulnerable groups are provided free of charge by South Australia Police to organisations who have a Volunteer Organisation Authorisation Number.

Police record checks are also called National Police Certificates (NPC’s).

Author: SA Police

Includability – Hosting accessible and inclusive online meetings

This guide will provide you with practical steps on how to ensure your online meeting or event is accessible and inclusive for all participants.

Author : Includability – Australian Human Rights Commission

Reasonable Adjustments in the Workplace

If you need modifications or adjustments to your workplace to accommodate your disability so you can work at your best, you can ask your employer to make changes around your office and general work area.

Author: Disability Support Guide

Inclusion and diversity in the workplace

This resource promotes and supports inclusion and diversity in the workplace, across all sectors and intersectionality.

Author: Queensland Government

Supporting LGBTIQA+ Volunteers

This resource will explore how LGBTIQA+ inclusivity can be incorporated at every stage of the volunteer engagement process.

Author: Southern Volunteering SA

Guide to Co-Design with people living with disability

Co-design is an inclusive, collaborative process whereby a diverse range of people with relevant skills, experience or interests come together to provide advice and make decisions on a project, policy, program or initiative.

Author: Purple Orange

Writing a volunteer position description

A volunteer position description promotes your volunteer opportunities to prospective volunteers. Your volunteer position description will appear online on websites like GoVolunteer and SEEK Volunteer. Check out how information about your volunteer position will be displayed online

Author: Southern Volunteering SA (SVSA)

Accessibility Tool Kit

A comprehensive guide to web and document (PDF, Word etc) accessibility. Including global and Australian standards.

Author: Vision Australia