Become A Volunteer
Are you looking for a powerful volunteering opportunity that impacts your community?
If you want to work with a committed team of volunteers based in our law courts, providing a high level community information, support and referral service, consider Court Network.
We are seeking volunteers who can commit to one day a week to support vulnerable people from diverse backgrounds.
Professional training, supervision and support is provided by skilled community services and volunteer management staff.
Safety Net: Brisbane, Dandenong and Melbourne
Victorian Courts: Melbourne Metropolitan, Suburban and Regional Victorian
Networkers in Victoria are trained community members who provide free, non-legal support, information and referral services on an impartial and non-judgemental basis to all persons, including applicants, respondents, victims, witnesses, defendants, and their families and friends before, during and after their court experiences. Many court users assisted by Court Network have no legal representation.
Court Network service provides an important contribution towards court users accessing justice, particularly for more vulnerable and disadvantaged court users. Court users may be attending court for the first time, be unrepresented, be unfamiliar with court rules and processes, lack knowledge about what is expected of them, feel unsafe, not being able to understand and participate effectively in the court processes, and be in need of someone to listen, provide support, and to assist them in navigating the court system.
Main duties and expectations of our volunteering role:
- Provide a welcoming, kind, and supportive human connection to all court users (witnesses, victims, accused, and family and friends)
- Actively engage with court users, either face to face or virtually, supporting and assisting them to navigate and fully participate in their court experience
- Recognise and respond to individual service user needs and concerns
- Provide service users with support, information and referral options and choices
- Promote service user safety
- Work independently as well as within a team
- Follow instructions and practice guidelines
- Have good digital literacy and confidence; record keeping, emailing, communication and information sharing
- Adhere to privacy policy requirements
Our volunteers must have strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills and the ability to foster inclusivity and a person-centred approach to supporting all court users, impartially and non-judgementally.
This multifaceted and interesting role is best suited to someone who is proactive, a ‘people-person’, passionate about improving access to justice and is wanting to volunteer on an ongoing and regular basis.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Court Network. If you’re interested in volunteering, please complete our Expression of Interest. Our recruitment is responsive to our service requirements. Please click here to sign up!
Brisbane, Beenleigh, Cairns, Ipswich and Southport Court
Networkers in Queensland are trained community members who provide first point of contact support to court users in Specialist Domestic and Family Violence Courts. Our volunteers are a central point of contact for court users. Providing arrival triage, referral to duty lawyers, assistance with warm referrals to in court supports, liaising with court users and service providers to promote and ensure the smooth running of the daily court list. Our volunteers also provide directional support and general information about court processes and what court users can expect on the day of court.
Main duties and expectations of our volunteering role:
- Provide a welcoming, kind and supportive human connection to all court users
- Actively engage with court users, supporting and assisting them to navigate and fully participate in their court experience
- Recognise and respond to individual service user needs and concerns
- Promote service user safety
- Work independently as well as within a team
- Follow instructions and practice guidelines
- Have good digital literacy and confidence; record-keeping, emailing, communication and information sharing
- Adhere to privacy policy requirements
Our volunteers must have strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills and the ability to foster inclusivity and a person-centred approach to supporting all court users, impartially and non-judgementally.
This multifaceted and interesting role is best suited to someone who is proactive, a ‘people-person’, passionate about improving access to justice, and is wanting to volunteer on an ongoing and regular basis.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Court Network. If you’re interested in volunteering, please complete our Expression of Interest. Our recruitment is responsive to our service requirements. Please click here to sign up!