Hoarding Support Volunteer - Toronto, Canada - VHA Home HealthCare

VHA Home HealthCare

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Hoarding Support Volunteer (Mental Health, Motivational Interviewing)

This is an unpaid role. Applicants must be able to travel to/in Toronto

Founded in 1925, VHA is a not-for-profit, charitable organization made up of over 3,000 diverse professionals - nurses, personal support workers, rehab therapists, home support workers, extreme cleaners, and office support staff.

Together, we provide high quality care, with great heart, to vulnerable populations in the communities we serve.

This includes seniors, families, new parents, newborn babies, people with physical and mental disabilities, children with medically complex needs, and the terminally ill.

We provide service 24 hours a day, seven days a week to clients in their homes, in schools, in retirement homes and other locations in the community.

In every role and at every level, we lead with purpose, build bonds that matter, and we're passionate about providing spectacular care.

VHA Home HealthCare (VHA) believes that quality care begins with quality people. Our volunteers work directly with our clients and make a difference in people's lives every day. We're looking for volunteers who share and enhance VHA's values

Role Description:
Improve quality of life of our clients in the Volunteer Hoarding Support Program. The program is designed to help vulnerable, isolated individuals with hoarding tendencies de-clutter, sort and organize their homes.

Developed from a harm reduction approach, we provide clients with opportunities that help improve their social, physical, mental and emotional health.

AREA SERVED:
Toronto, North York, East York, Etobicoke

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

Assist clients to declutter and organize their living space
Assist clients to let go and discard items
Assist clients to establish realistic and clientdriven goals for organization, maintenance, and safe living

Other responsibilities

Work with clients at their own pace, while maintaining clear goals
Foster and establish appropriate use of cleared living spaces
Be attentive to clients emotional state
Submit Volunteer Log to the Supervisor after each visit
Report concerns immediately to the Program Supervisor
Maintain confidentiality of client information
Notify the Supervisor as soon as possible if unable to volunteer on an assigned date
Attend monthly support meeting.

TIME COMMITTMENT

3 hours plus travel time weekly (once a week)

weekly visits make one volunteer assignment

Visits happen during weekday hours between 9am5pm only. No evening or weekend availability

AGE REQUIREMENT Minimum be 18 years-old

QUALIFICATION

Good active listening and oral communication skills to work one on one with client in client's home
Motivated and patient
Interested in mental health issues and compulsive hoarding
Comfortable working with a client in their home
Friendly, reliable, responsible, nonjudgmental and nondiscriminating
Able to act independently within the boundaries of the position description and client needs and goals
Creativity in planning and implementing activities
Knowledgeable of available community resources (For example: local dumpsters, community health centres, donation dropoff facilities etc.)
Experience working in the mental health field

BENEFITS

Receive excellent training provided by VHA's regulated professionals
Develop skill sets in working in mental health
Personal growth and professional development
Gain Resume building
Make an impact
Professional Reference Letter provided after 1 year volunteer commitment

ORIENTATION AND TRAINING

Orientation training by VHA regulated professional
Monthly Volunteer Support Meeting with training component.

SCREENING AND SUPERVISION

Application form with 2 references
Interview
Signed Volunteer and Confidentiality Agreements
Clear Vulnerable Sector Screening check
Report to supervisor on a weekly basis and submit weekly log
Supervisor will be available for feedback and support

Ask us about our 'Pathway to Employment' For more information and how to apply**:

Roxana Condo
Program Assistant,_

About VHA Home HealthCare
Since 1925, VHA Home HealthCare—a not-for-profit, charity—has empowered Ontarians to create possibilities for more independence.

VHA's team of over 2,000 support clients in throughout Ontario and are a founding member agency of United Way Toronto.