Arts and Crafts Volunteer

Arts and Crafts Volunteer

Responsible to: Volunteer Coordinator

Works With: Patients and their families

Role

A compassionate soul with an artistic flair. This role allows creative activities of alls kinds, knitting, weaving, painting, drawing, scrapbooking. The sky is the limit! This role provides opportunities for patient engagement, empowering patients to participate at their level; giving the individual the multi-sensory joy of crafting and art.

Primary Responsibilities:

Compassionate presence for the patient and family

Engage in creating crafts of arts

Support patient on their end of life journey as needed

Secondary Responsibilities

Simple documentation of the visit, form provided, to be submitted to the Volunteer Coordinator

Skills/Qualifications Needed

Compassion

Artistic/Craft abilities

Understanding

Patience

Flexibility

Desired Experience

A successful applicant will show a positive attitude towards patient care and be comfortable around individuals facing an end of life journey

Time Commitment

One time a week, or once every other week is preferred, but availability is negotiable

Next Steps

Apply to connect, or simply to ask more questions. We are happy to meet and discuss the role and our seamless training program. We pride ourselves in creating well trained volunteers who know their value!