TERM 2 VM/VP WORK PLACEMENTS
NAME: Jasmine Harvey
Where did you complete your placement?
I completed my placement at Logan Lodge Aged Care Centre.
What roles did you undertake there?
I worked with the Aged Care Activities Coordinator
What I did:
- One-on-one with residents - checked in with everyone to see how they are doing and have a chat
- Helped with activities such as bingo, quizzes, painting, footy tipping etc
- Collected residents in wheelchairs from rooms to go to places like lunch and activities
- Shadowed nurses
- Learnt how they showered residents who needed help
- Learnt how they used a lifter to move residents from bed to wheelchair
- observed nurses feeding residents
- Helped make beds
What did you like about the work placement?
I enjoyed helping a lady play bingo, talking to the residents each morning, and making connections with them.
What things were challenging?
Sometimes it was challenging to know what to talk to with the residents.
It was a bit confronting at times watching the nurses.
Is there a chance that it may influence your future plans?
Yes, I would definitely look into this further as a possible future career.
NAME: Ty Collins
Where did you complete your placement?
I completed my placement at Laneway Music, Swan Hill.
What roles did you undertake there?
Tuned up guitars, restrung some guitars, cleaned and moved shelving, tested different pedals, advertised a new product within the store.
What did you like about the work placement?
I got to play the guitar along with other instruments as well as playing some pedals.
What things were challenging?
Having to figure out how to do the restring on the guitar and making sure not to damage their guitar.
Is there a chance that it may influence your future plans?
I don’t plan on becoming a music shop owner but it was great to learn how to restring a guitar as it can be helpful for me to do it later on in my life playing guitar.
NAME: Benny Cimino
Where did you complete your placement?
I completed my placement at Billy Charnock Electrical.
What roles did you undertake there?
I undertook many tasks including, running cables, drilling holes through wall studs, clamping cables together to the roof trusses, running cable on scissor lifts, sweeping floors, cutting holes in walls, feeding cables into manholes, pulling cables through walls, helping clean the back of the shed, helped stack cable drums into and out of vans, moved stacks of conduit pipes, watching what was being done.
What did you like about the work placement?
I enjoyed being able to do the things myself.
What things were challenging?
I found getting the hang of stripping cables challenging.
Is there a chance that it may influence your future plans?
Electrical work is one of the two jobs I want to start working in.
NAME: Hannalee Bacon
Where did you complete your placement?
I completed my placement on the 11th to the 14th of June at Cohuna Consolidated School.
What roles did you undertake there?
At the primary school I was able to help all the kids when they needed it and to learn how all different year levels worked. Some of these tasks were reading, P.E, I.C.T, Maths, writing speeches, playing with the kids and singing.
What did you like about the work placement?
I liked that I was able to have one-on-one time with the kids to get to know them and how they learn. I enjoyed getting to help some of the kids with their reading.
What things were challenging?
Things that were challenging to me were trying to remember some of the student's names, and that whole bunch of kids wanted to hang out with me but wanted to play different games.
Is there a chance that it may influence your future plans?
It has, I am trying to work out if I'd like to work in childcare or as a teacher's aide.