Rehabilitation and Aged Care Volunteers

Rehabilitation and Aged Care Volunteers assist our elderly patients, or those recovering on our rehabilitation wards.

Duties include:

• providing companionship to patients, their relatives and friends
• ensuring everything the patient requires is within reach
• refreshing flowers in each ward, as requested
• assisting and accompany 'independent', 'stand by assists' or 'minimal assist' patients on walks (if given consent by staff and able to provide minimal assist)
• taking wheelchair patients out of their rooms for a walk if given consent by staff and staff have provided assistance into transferring patient in/out of wheelchair (if they require assistance)
• assisting with menus need assistance filling out
• assisting with meal setup including hand hygiene before meals
• making tea and coffee for relatives or patients outside morning / afternoon tea times
• keeping area tidy.