Patient/Family Centred Roles |
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| These roles work directly with patients and their families often in the patient’s own home. | |
| Role | Description |
| Beauty Therapy | Providing beauty treatments to patients – usually in their own home. You need to have a formal qualification |
| Bereavement | Working with the families of recently bereaved |
| Biography | Working with patients to record their life stories, resulting in the production and printing of their biographies |
| Complementary Therapies | Providing complementary therapies to patients – usually in their own home. You need to have a formal qualification |
| Counselling | Working with patients and their family members. You need a formal qualification |
| Driving | Driving patients to appointments, activities or events. You need to have your own car. |
| Equipment Delivery | Working in a team to deliver, set up or collect medical equipment (including beds and lazyboys) to patients own homes. You need to be physically fit and able to drive |
| Gardening | Providing gardening services to patients |
| Hairdressing | Providing hairdressing services to patients – usually in their own home. You need to have a formal qualification |
| Handyman | Providing handyman services to patients |
| Legal/Financial Advice | Providing legal and financial advice to patients and their families |
| Therapeutic Massage | Providing therapeutic massage services to patients. This is a combination of patients own home and at Hospice House You need to have a formal qualification |
| Activity Day Stay Volunteer | Working with a team of other volunteers and an activities coordinator provide day stay activity programmes for patients. Based at Hospice House |
| Podiatry | Providing podiatry treatments/services to patients. You need to have a formal qualification |
| Patient Visiting | Visiting patients in their own home to provide respite cover for family members as well as visitor variety for patients. Own transport is essential |
| Support services | This could include a variety of things such as dog walking, helping sort out a patients house, odd tasks |
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If you are interested in any of our volunteer openings, or just want to chat about any opportunities or options for future volunteering then contact Hilary (Volunteer Services Manager) on volunteers@laketaupohospice.co.nz or phone 07 377 4252
Or if you are ready to go – sign up now!
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15.03.2019 by Hilary MorrishAllen
Fun day at the Race Track
Our patients had a fantastic fun day out at the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park thanks to their CEO Tony Walker and Hospice Volunteer Antony More >>
Events
- 13 May - 19 May 2019 Hospice Awareness Week 2019
- 1 Apr - 7 Apr 2019 Student Volunteer Week
- 6 Jun 2019 Palliative Care Lecture Series 2019 – The Role of Oxygen in Palliative Care
- 2 May 2019 Palliative Care Lecture Series 2019 – Understanding the Impact of New Public Health Approaches and End of Life Care
- 4 Apr 2019 Palliative Care Lecture Series 2019 – Palliative and End of Life Care for People with Intellectual Disability see more events
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