Camp – Returning Volunteers – Young Life Australia Training

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Role Preference Questionnaire
Please indicate at least 5 options from the list below, with 1 being your first choice. Your preference will be taken into consideration when assigning roles for camp.
Abseiling Supervision
You will be in a team of people. You will be required to provide adult supervision at the top of the rocks of abseiling and will be available to assist Cabin Leaders if they need with any of their campers. You are not required to run the activity - this is done by external providers.
Bikes
You will be in a team of people leading the mountain bike riding rotation. You will need to have a level of physical fitness to be on this team.
Kosciusko Team
You will be in a team of people and required to do an 18km hike on 2 of the 4 days of rotations at camp. The other 2 days you will remain at camp assisting program with wide games and supervision of campers. A high level of physical fitness is required for this rotation.
Water Life Guard
You must have your bronze medallion to do this job. You will be at the water supervising campers on the Water rotation whilst they're waiting for their turn on the Ski Mission boats.
On-Shore Water Games
You are required to run games next to the lake and will be paired with 2 life guards to allow campers to swim. This role requires some pre-camp preparation of planning of activities.
Ski Mission Spotter / Prepping
You must be able to swim for this role! You will be required to sit on a boat ensuring that campers are safe when they come off the tubes. In an emergency you may be required to assist campers in the water. When you are not on the boat, you will be on shore ensuring that campers have the right size life jackets and ski gear on. You may be required to use a loud voice to supervise campers.
Kids Club
You will be required to coordinate a Kids Club for the children of Summer Staff and Adult Guests, aged between 0 - 10yrs old during rotation days. The parents of the children will be present.
Prayer
You are required to send out the daily prayer points of the cabin leaders via email. And coordinate a daily meeting to pray over camp.
Shop
You will be making milkshakes, nachos and other treats, selling them to the campers and their leaders. This role is predominately an afternoon - night job.
Music
You will be playing music at club each night, as well as providing campers supervision during the day where needed.
Medical
You must have a health qualification to be assigned to this role eg. doctor, nurse, paramedic, physiotherapist, psychologist
Photography & Video
You will be required to go around to the different rotations taking photo's / video's of campers and their leaders and editing your photo's / video's ready for the day video that's played at club each night. You will be assigned to the tech team if this is your role assignment.
Tech / sound
You are required to make the day vid's, sort out sound with the program team and other such things ... You will be assigned to the tech team if this is your role assignment.
Cabin Leader
You will be a cabin leader for young people who are attending camp that are not connected with a local area. You must have experience with Young Life or significant experience working with young people to be assigned this role. You will be assigned to the Cabin Leaders if this is your role assignment.
Skills & Qualifications
I have the following skills and / or qualifications:
- Chef
- Hospitality Experience
- Coffee Barista
- Current First Aid Certificate
- Current Bronze Medallion / Life Guard Qualification
- Outdoor Recreation Qualification
- Other
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Watch this video where Mike Ashburn shares about the importance of cabin time, and then complete the form below. The cabin leader training has been updated this year, and has many other really helpful videos on how to be an effective cabin leader. It is not a requirement to re-do all the training, however we highly recommend going through and having a look at what has been added to make you as prepared as possible for the week.

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Would you like to review the Cabin Leader Training? There has been some content added that you might find helpful! You will not be required to redo the quizzes.

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2021 Summer Camp – Role Preference (Returning Volunteers)

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