Volunteers
St. Joseph's Continuing Care Centre is always looking for new volunteers to join our team! Our group of dedicated volunteers ensures that our residents maintain the highest quality of life possible by complementing services provided by staff. Volunteers play a key role in helping us remind residents that they are part of a larger community that cares. Whether you are interested in personal growth, new friendships, or completing volunteer hours for school, give St. Joseph's Continuing Care Centre a try.
Benefits of Volunteering
Volunteering can be extremely rewarding, and provides an opportunity to work with all different types of residents and staff but there are many other benefits to enrolling in our volunteer program:
- Gaining work experience and learning new skills to build upon your resume.
- The opportunity to work in one or many areas of health care.
- Helping others and developing new and lasting friendships.
- Feeling a sense of accomplishment.
Ways to volunteer
We offer volunteer opportunities with a flexible schedule adapted to your specific work and family life. There are many different ways to offer a hand as a volunteer, including:
- Accompanying residents for outside appointments.
- Assisting nurses at meal times.
- Working in the gift shop.
- Assisting with clerical activities.
- Assisting with recreational activities and events.
- Portering residents to recreational and religious activities, meals and physical therapy.
- Working on seasonal crafts and decorating.
- Gain excellent work experience by aiding our dietary or maintenance staff.
- Becoming part of our Auxiliary and assisting in fundraising.
- Portering and working with our hairdresser.