Weekly Club Update 11-8-2022

Telephone: 0467 475 263 Postal Address: PO Box 49, San Remo, VIC, 3925 Web: www.woolamaibeach.org.au Email: secretary@woolamaibeach.asn.au

Weekly Club Update - 11-8-2022

Summary:

Volunteering Opportunities
- Lifesaving Services
- Communications
- Sustainability
- and more!
2022 LSV Club Conference
Participate in a lifesaving study with Monash University
Training Opportunities
SLSA Women’s Mentoring Program 4 - 2022 Program
LSV News

Volunteering Opportunities

There are many opportunities available for members to apply in preparation for the upcoming season!

I’d encourage everyone to have a look through the following link to see what’s available!

For more information and to apply, click here - https://www.woolamaibeach.org.au/wbslsc-volunteering-opportunities

Communications Opportunities

Merchandise Coordinator and merchandise roles
Publications Coordinator
Website Coordinator
Social/Event/Courses Photography team
Content/video creator

Ryan Box - Director of Communications
E: communication@woolamaibeach.asn.au

Lifesaving Services

Lifesaving Equipment Roles
Patrol Captain and Vice Patrol Captains

Campbell Smart - Director of Lifesaving Service
E: lifesavingservices@woolamaibeach.asn.au

Sustainability Committee

Communications Coordinator
Events and Education Coordinator
Waste Coordinator
Non-renewables Coordinator
Junior Sustainability Officer

Louise Smith - Director of Sustainability E: sustainability@woolamaibeach.asn.au

Administration

Membership Officer

Christian Born - Director of Administration
E: administration@woolamaibeach.asn.au

2022 LSV Club Conference

Life Saving Victoria (LSV) is thrilled to announce the annual Club Conference is returning to face-to-face this year.

Mark your calendars for Saturday 17 September and Sunday 18 September, when we host a fantastic program of guest speakers and workshops to help clubs prepare for season 2022-23.

Volunteers will be presented with an array of topical and essential information, with content focused on the coming year.

This event provides the opportunity for LSV to demonstrate new resources that are available to clubs, as well as a fantastic occasion for members to come together with other volunteers from around the state.

Woolamai is looking to send a group of eager people to go and learn this information and come back with a variety of knowledge that they can then apply and bring back to the club.

This is a great opportunity for anyone who is currently in a leadership position or wishes to be one in the future as it gives a beneficial understanding of what’s happening at LSV and a good kickstart for the season ahead.

The draft program can be found HERE

If you’re interested in going, please fill out the expression of interest HERE and someone will be in contact with you.

In order for the club to make a booking in time, the EOI will close Friday 2nd September

Any questions please get in contact with Brendan Smart - 0433 793 097

Facebook event - click HERE

More information from the LSV circular - click HERE

Participate in a lifesaving study with Monash University

Life Saving Victoria along with Monash University are conducting research into the mental health and well-being of patrolling members post critical incidents.

Please contact Annie Coleman at anniecoleman@woolamaibeach.asn.au for more information if interested.

Training Opportunities

We are very excited to be offering a variety of awards this season (as per pre-COVID). Leading into the summer there will be opportunities to conduct some health awards such as First Aid, ART and Resuscitation. Please watch this space for more information.

Advanced Resuscitation Techniques/First Aid Course

Woolamai Beach SLSC will be running a combined ARTFA course in September in conjunction with the UHS year 11 students. We are very excited to be running this course again as it has been a long 3 years since the last course.

Details of the course can be found here https://www.woolamaibeach.org.au/training-calendar

Date: 10th September 2022
Time: 9:00am - 5:30pm
Location: Upwey High School
Cost: $45 or $100 (inc bumbag)

Registrations will close on the 30th August 2022

Who can do this course?

In order to complete this awards you must be at least 15 years of age on the date of final assessment. You must also be a financial member of the Woolamai Beach SLSC for the season 2022/23. After the closing date, an email will go out to everyone who registered with further details on how to book into the course online with LSV and how to renew/pay memberships.

Updating Qualifications

Members who have completed these awards should check when they expire. **Please Note: if your resuscitation qualification (HLTAID009) has expired, you will need to do an update course.

Advanced Resuscitation Techniques (All Members)

The Advanced Resuscitation Techniques award must be re-qualified every year at a Skills Maintenance day run by:
- Woolamai Beach SLSC
- Another Lifesaving Club
- Lifesaving Victoria
To learn more about how to re-qualify this award, please click Here

Advanced Resuscitation Techniques (Lifeguards or TAF's)

Must renew ART (HLTAID015) every 3 Years via a full course or update course
Must renew Resuscitation/CPR (HLTAID009) every 12 months via a full course or update course

First Aid

Must renew First Aid (HLTAID011) every 3 Years via a full course or update course
Must renew Resuscitation/CPR (HLTAID009) every 12 months via a full course or update course

SLSA Women’s Mentoring Program 4 - 2022 Program

Applications are now open for the 2022 SLSA Women’s Mentoring Program.

We encourage Victoria female members to consider both Mentee and Mentor opportunities. This program promotes women within lifesaving, facilitating empowerment, support and leadership skills which can be applied to their paid roles inside and outside of SLS, volunteer activities and everyday life. The Program promotes ongoing supported pathways of personal and professional development as well as networking opportunities. Each mentee is selected based on:

demonstrated leadership abilities and
their potential and willingness to develop further in this area and
move into leadership positions within SLS

What are the individual benefits:

For the Mentee:

Build confidence, capability and interpersonal relationship skills
Supports them to take control of their own leadership capability and capacity by providing an opportunity to learn skills and behaviours and enhance their support networks
Life engagement of our women members, providing networking and ongoing support groups, increasing their sense of belonging.

For the Mentor:

Opportunity to be part of a legacy, give back and pass on personal and professional learnings, increasing their self-worth
Enhance interpersonal and professional skills increasing personal value to the organisation and reenergising their engagement with SLS • Strengthen coaching and leadership skills

What will the program entail?

The Mentee is responsible for establishing the path they would like to follow during the mentoring process. The main aim of mentoring is to help them determine their broad career and personal development goals and define a plan to help them achieve them.
The Mentee is responsible for arranging meetings and setting the agenda. They need to take a proactive role in shaping the relationship with their mentor and put the time to best use.
Mentoring meetings can occur in many ways. Mentor and Mentee need to agree on frequency, meeting length and regularity of meeting. Mentoring meetings usually run for 1 – 2 hours, although this may vary. We recommend meeting every 4-6 weeks. Most of our matches are not in the same state, so your meetings will be done over the phone, FaceTime or Zoom. You might also like to stay in touch by text in between meetings.
We will have initial training for the Mentors and Mentees before you get started, and this will introduce you to the online platform from McCarthy Mentoring which will guide you through the Program and help you to understand the mentoring relationship.
There will also be workshops which SLSA will arrange every few months which you can attend (online) which will further develop your skills in a number of ways, both personally and professionally.
Most importantly, you will have an incredible support network of like-minded women at your fingertips to reach out to.

nominees must be at least 16 to apply

Nominations due 25th of September

For more information - click HERE