Are you interested in volunteering at our Victoria Hospice Thrift Boutique?  We are looking for Team Leaders, Retail Associates, Drivers, Inventory Volunteers and Dispatch Coordinators.  Volunteer training and store orientation sessions are ongoing. You can help!  Apply now.  Our Thrift Boutique is open Monday to Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm at  1315 Cook Street near Yates. (250) 361-4966

Volunteers are involved in every aspect of the Victoria Hospice program as an essential part of our interdisciplinary team. Over 500 people are active as trained Victoria Hospice volunteers, providing companionship and practical support to our patients and family members. Volunteers may work in people’s homes or on our in-patient unit, or may make contact regularly by phone.

All volunteers, except for our Thrift Boutique volunteers, complete 35 hours of classroom training followed by 15 hours of on-the-job training on our unit. Victoria Hospice offers three volunteer training programs per year.  Read our volunteer commitment guidelines before applying, and then complete the volunteer application form.

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Hospice Palliative Care Unit Volunteers
These volunteers work alongside medical and nursing staff, counsellors and spiritual caregivers to provide the best possible care on our 17-bed in-patient unit. Volunteer shifts are typically three hours long, scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. seven days a week.

Community Volunteers
Supported by Home Nursing Care in partnership with Victoria Hospice, volunteers working in the community offer appropriate support, companionship or special skills to patients and family members.

Bereavement Support Volunteers
Volunteers carry a large part of the responsibility for bereavement support and provide regular contact, participate in various drop-in and formal support groups, and facilitate our well-known bereavement walking groups.

Program Enrichment Volunteers
Volunteers also take part in a wide variety of activities to support clinical care and allow patients and families more choices. These include educational activities, maintenance of the Victoria Hospice rooftop garden or sharing a wide range of special skills with patients and family members. Such skills include massage, Reiki and other healing modalities, expertise in helping with writing memoirs or creating reminiscence books. Volunteer skills and interests are recorded in a database so that we can meet special requests from patients or families.

In addition, volunteers are also an integral part of fundraising activities at Victoria Hospice, playing an essential role in special events, supporting the Development Office and its team, providing community education and public relations support through the Speakers Bureau, working in our new Victoria Hospice Thrift Boutique as Team Leaders, Retail Associates, Inventory Volunteers, Drivers or Dispatch Coordinators, and much more.

Welcome to Shirley Christina, who is our Assistant Manager of Volunteer Services.  Shirley is looking for volunteers to work at our Victoria Hospice Thrift Boutique.

e-mail: VOLHospice@viha. ca

Telephone: (250) 370-8727       9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time   Monday to Friday      
Fax: (250) 370-8625