Sarah Sturrock is a well-known face at IMPACT Community Services Material Recycling Facility and knows a thing or two about skip trucks and recycling. But lately Sarah has been working with a different kind of material timber. One of IMPACTs most successful NDIS programs, Robs Shed, teaches participants how to safely and effectively use power tools and materials to construct a range of different items.
Meet our wonderful CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) Trainer Sandy Baker.
Sandy has over 10 years of experience working in Aged Care, and is a highly regarded trainer at IMPACT Community Services.
Get to know her a little better from this Q&A she completed for weekly newspaper Bundaberg Today.
When you think of innovation, what does it mean for you? New ideas? New products? Doing something differently? For Tanya, it is simply taking an idea and putting it into action to create value; a time saving, reducing a process by two steps or a financial saving. The idea part is usually the easiest, we have these all day long, but executing it takes a little more thought.
For most, the word Christmas conjures images of family lunches, cricket on the tv and sun-soaked beach trips that end with an ice-cream and an afternoon siesta.
But other members of the community rely on this period to gain seasonal work to help get them and their families through the financial demands associated with the holidays.
Robyn Green has come from a rich and varied background in caring for others.
Robyn is the new Trainer and Assessor for the CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Home and Community) and said her career was inspired after caring for her grandmother when she was young.
Last week was Planet Arks 25th annual National Recycling Week. Recycling is something that is close to our hearts at IMPACT, and its important we continue the conversation to help not only our environment, but future generations who will be affected by our efforts in this space.
This years theme, Recovery A future beyond the bin, encourages Australians to stop and think before their items reach the trash can.
It's National Recycling Week this week from November 8 - 15, and supported employer Jamie Stubbs from the Material Recycling Facility has a message for Bundaberg recyclers: look after your environment but also the workers at the MRF.
Are you doing your bit?
NAIDOC Week is an annual reminder for us to not only stop and reflect on Australias Indigenous history but offers an opportunity to reassess our efforts as individuals and as leaders in the space of cultural inclusion.
Here Tanya discusses the importance of culture in the workplace and encourages others to take on an approach of mindful cultural inclusivity and raise the conversation with others.
After almost 10 years on the Board of IMPACT Community Services, and 8 as Board Chair, David Batt voiced his eighth and final Chair's Report at the AGM last month where he retired from the position.
Read his final words here.
IMPACT Managing Director Tanya O'Shea discusses the blurred lines of the work/life juggle and provides insights about how we can all become a better leader both at work and in our personal lives.
IMPACT Community Services is setting up a pop-up stall at Hinkler Central so if you've ever been curious about what we do, come on down and say hello.
Go in the draw to win a $50 gift voucher by simply recycling your containers with IMPACT community Services Containers for Change at 78 University Drive, Bundaberg.
IMPACT Community Services is encouraging Bundaberg residents to recycle their containers to go into the monthly draw to win a $50 gift voucher. In these tough times, where you have to work hard to earn every dollar, why wouldnt you do the right thing by the environment and pick up 10 cents for every container you drop at our Container Refund Point at 78 University Drive.
IMPACT Community Services is in the business of changing lives for the better. Here one of our Transition to Work participants shares her experience and how she's forging a future in her chosen field.
Leanne Rudd has replaced David Batt as Board Chair at IMPACT Community Services.
David resigned from the position of Chair in accordance with constitutional legislation which limits Board members to no more than three three-year terms (9 years).
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