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 |
Sign me up!
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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