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Volunteer Coordinator Position Vacant

  • by Maria Lopez
  • April 14, 2025

HammondCare is a not-for-profit, values-based organisation that is passionate about improving the quality of life for people in need. As one of Australia’s most innovative health and aged care providers, they aim to set the global standard of relationship-based care for people with complex needs. HammondCare provides care primarily through hospitals, residential care homes and home-based care as well as services for dementia support, community palliative care, rehabilitation, positive aging and older persons’ mental health.

About the role:

The Volunteer Coordinator will be responsible for leading a volunteer service whose key focus is to support our hospital services.  HammondCare’s volunteers support their patients by providing social support, happy hour trolley, coffee carts, writing our patients’ life stories, admin, pet therapy etc.

This is a permanent part-time position working 15.2 hours per week across 3 days, however 2 full days will be considered for the right candidate.  The role is based at Braeside Hospital – Prairiewood.

Duties include:

  • Working with multidisciplinary teams to build a volunteer service that compliments the needs of their clients at Braeside Hospital
  • Attracting, recruiting and onboarding volunteers, matching their interests with suitable opportunities
  • Managing and mentoring volunteers, supporting them with both online and onsite face-to-face training as well as coordinating social volunteer events
  • Maintaining accurate records in the volunteer database (Salesforce) and following established processes and guidelines for Volunteer Services

How to apply
For any specific queries please contact [email protected].
Click here to go to the full job description and to apply.

 

 

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