Join us in enacting our sole purpose in providing the quality of life of people with disabilities and their families. 

What we can offer you

• Support your desire for work-life-balance
• Join a collaborative and supportive team who will provide mentoring and supervision
• Unpaid placement part-time to suit your schedule
• An excellent time
• Opportunity for you to sharpen your professional skills/knowledge
• Participating in delivering real-world projects including events, commissions, exhibitions and performance productions

About your role

Are you looking for student placement / volunteering in creative arts and education?  Gain valuable real-life experience and skills to enhance your career development whilst providing genuine expansion for our artists.  The Centre of Creative Arts (COCA) is Multicap’s creative education program offering 8 modules across the Visual and Performing Arts.

The COCA Modules offered across our Hubs are:

• Textiles (sewing, weaving, costume + wearable art)
• Ceramics
• Painting (with drawing)
• Theatre (basic drama skills + physical theatre)
• Creative Movement (inc. singing/dancing)
• Collage
• Eco Art (site specific environmental practice)
• Public Art (community based practice)

As a student/volunteer you will work alongside the COCA Program Lead, COCA Facilitator and DSW staff.  COCA sessions are programmed in half and full day sessions and are undertaken as a study unit of 12-week blocks.

Come and join our creative team where every person plays a critical role.

About you – some or all! 

• Significant experience/skills in one or more of the COCA modules
• Currently studying a Cert III in Individual Support, Allied Health,
• Education, Creative Industries or similar (student)
• Ability to follow directions and work with individuals and small groups
• Social, friendly and easy going – great people skills is a must!
• Compassionate and patient in nature
• Community, business and/or professional creative network
• Observant and responsive to other peoples needs
• Literacy support (artists learn time management, planning, journalling)
• Ability to adapt/modify tasks to suit learners
• Excellent communication skills including follow-up
• Ability to support focused attention
• Openness and kindness
• Problem solving skills – where there’s a will, there’s a way!

Benefits

• Supervision, guidance and mentoring
• Supportive, skilled and fun team
• Free on-site parking
• Opportunity to apply for a role on completion of placement
• Career opportunities and professional referrals

You will have or be willing to obtain the following to qualify for these roles

• Hold a current Blue Card (Working with Children)
• A NDIS Worker Screening Check (Working with Individuals with Disabilities)
• Aged 18 years and over
• Open Drivers Licence (or on Green P Plates) (students only)

Who we are?

Multicap Group are leaders in disability support and mental health services, providing individualised support, experiences and opportunities for more than 8000 customers and clients across Queensland, northern New South Wales and Victoria.

Always empowering, always respecting, always connecting, always creating.

What happens next?

Please apply and attach a resume, Blue Card (Working with Children Check) and Yellow Card (NDIS Worker Screening).  If you do not hold these cards, we will be in touch to support you through the process!

“Multicap acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we all work, live and play on. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations Peoples. We reflect upon the millions of footprints that are embedded into the earth from our Ancestors, the pathways that were forged, the meaning they leave behind and the continuation of the traditions through the next generations”.

EIGHT MILE PLAINS, EIGHT MILE PLAINS, QLD, 4112, Australia
Employee Type: Other
Other Compensation: Unpaid Student Placement / Volunteer