Re-engaging Volunteers into Aged Care Facilities

As the Aged care workforce continues to experience high pressure to meet the demands of clinical and high care tasks, your role will be to provide non-clinical social and emotional support to older people residing in aged care facilities.

Volunteers have long been an essential part of the aged care system. Volunteers complement, not replicate, or replace, or fill shifts of the paid workforce by a return to providing assistance and social support to residents, essential to the wellbeing of older people.

Your time and dedication to this role will reduce the social isolation and loneliness that many residents have been experiencing as a result of COVID-19.

The impact your contribution will make to the lives of aged care residents. 

TCC is inviting people who are over 18 years of age and are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, to register their interest to volunteer.

By volunteering your time, you will be supporting older people by meeting their social and emotional needs, whilst easing the loneliness and social isolation that they may be experiencing.  

The non-clinical volunteer tasks could include:

• Social engagement and conversation

• Leisure activities such as reading or music

• Providing access and supervision in outdoor spaces

• Assisting with physical activity and exercise

• Optional assistance with basic grooming and personal care such as hair brushing

N.B. You will not be expected to provide showering, dressing, medication management, wound dressing, continence management, technical, high risk or complex transfer of residents, documenting provision of care, nor would you be in contact with isolated residents due to infection or illness.

Every volunteer makes a difference, every hour counts.