Volunteer Application Process
Thankyou for considering volunteering at our school. Below you will find the process and instructions that all volunteers will need to complete before allowed access to activities.
Step 1 – Agree to Child Safety Policy and Audit Code of Conduct
Each current and new volunteer is required to sign a written statement indicating that they have read, acknowledged, and will adhere to Golden Grove Lutheran Primary School’s Child Safety Policy and Child Safe Adult Code of Conduct. Once you have done this, please complete the Child Safe Policies Agreement Form below.
Step 2 – Working with Children Check
South Australia has introduced stronger, more effective, and more transparent screening laws for people working or volunteering with children. Everyone working or volunteering with children must have valid child-related screening.
The new working with children check (WWCC) introduced on 1 July 2019 replaces the current system, where people can have either a Department of Human Services (DHS) child-related employment screening or a National Police Certificate assessed by their employer/volunteer-involving organisation.
Changes include:
- WWCCs replace all other types of child-related employment screening checks
- People can apply for their own WWCC, to help them be job-ready
- Organisations can no longer use National Police Certificates for people working or volunteering with children. Only the South Australian Department of Human Services (DHS) Screening Unit can do a WWCC
- A WWCC is valid for five years and is portable across organisations and roles in South Australia.
A Working with Children Check needs to be provided.
You can apply for this check online via the Government of South Australia Department of Human Services Screening Unit, or you can fill out the form below and the school will initiate the process. You will then receive an email from DHS asking you to activate your account. Following your activation, a further email will be sent from DHS with a link to complete your application online and a username (please note this may not be exactly the same as your email address) and password. You will be requested to change your password prior to completing application Sections A – G (click on application number). Section A – reference number to be left blank. In section H select ‘requesting organisation’ as the verification method for the school to process the 100-point check. Clearance will then be emailed to both you and the school in due course.
Step 3 – RRHAN-EC Training
The State Government has introduced a requirement for volunteers to undertake updated Responding to Risks of Abuse Harm and Neglect – Education and Care (RRHAN-EC) training. The RRHAN-EC training is specifically for staff and volunteers working in education and care sites.
If you are a new or existing volunteer, you will need to undertake the two-hour online Fundamentals course to meet the requirements for conditional certification for the next three-year training cycle unless you already have a certificate with an expiry date of 31 December 2024.
The training is available on the Department for Education’s learning management site Plink. Staff and volunteers in all sectors have access to the two-hour online Fundamentals training
Plink maintains a record of training completed and allows for certificates to be reprinted when needed.
Log-in steps
The log-in page can be accessed below.
- Scroll down to the Non-Department for Education staff login and create a new log-in or, to access a current account, fill in the required details.
- If you have forgotten your password, click forgot password to create a new one.
- Once on the Plink RRHAN-EC course site Plink will assign the appropriate course and certificate for when you select from the available options.
If you have any questions, you are most welcome to be in contact with us at the school.
Step 4 – Valuing Safe Communities Training
Lutheran schools seek to ensure that each member of the school community enjoys a positive, safe, healthy and respectful place of learning. To meet this expectation staff and volunteers of schools of the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA), and early childhood services are obliged to meet the requirements of the ‘LCA Standards of Ethical Behaviour’ and related LCA policies. Valuing Safe Communities (VSC) is a school specific training program developed to comply with this expectation.
Please note that to participate in this course, there is a two-stage process required to ensure the integrity and safety of the training content. The first stage is registering on the training system: iLearn (Part 1) and the second stage is enrolling in the training module (steps 7 and 8).
Read the instruction handout below.