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Organization Position Location Description
CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Wellness Phone Caller

A community outreach program ensuring wellness calls to adults and seniors living in isolation.

The aim of the Wellness Calls Cavendish initiative is to provide support, reassurance, and connection to adults and seniors who are at particular risk now for social isolation, given their current health and mobility challenges.

Volunteers are recruited to work remotely from home and are assigned a client to contact by phone on a weekly basis.

Clientele served: CIUSSS West Central Montreal Health Network clients living in the Cote St. Luc, Notre Dame de Grace, Snowdon West, Hampstead and Montreal West boroughs. We serve the French, English and multi-lingual communities of our city.
Volunteers can volunteer from anywhere as long as they are willing to use their own phone service.

Goals of program:

1) To offer reassurance and support to clients by phone

2) To encourage stimulating conversation with the clients.

3) To reduce the social isolation clients are experiencing.

CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Friendly Visitor Catherine Booth Rehabilitation Hospital

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

A volunteer can provide a room visit to:
-help stimulate brain activity through conversations, reading, short board games/cards
-reduce patient's feelings of isolation with regular weekly visits weekends or weekdays
-brighten a person's day with positive interactions
-allow patients to express positive and negative feelings during rehabilitation

CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Rehab Assistant Catherine Booth Rehabilitation Hospital

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

A volunteer will be part of our multi-disciplinary team and work primarily with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and social service staff.

Job description:
-greeting patients with a friendly disposition and encouraging conversation
-to work cooperatively with professional staff by following directives
-safely accompanying assigned patients during rehabilitative walks, and chair exercise treatments.
-pushing clients in wheelchairs between bedroom, rehab room and common areas (wheelchair training is provided)
-assisting discharged patients with patient satisfaction surveys
-some clerical work (printing, photocopying, scanning, sorting, etc.)

CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Phone Surveys/Sondage Téléphonique Famcare

Côte-Saint-Luc

English and French speaking volunteers required (Work on site or from home)

Dans le but d’améliorer les services auprès des usagers/proches aidants, on cherche à connaitre l’expérience des proches aidants qui ont soutenu leur être cher en soins palliatifs, dans le contexte de soins à domicile.

Ce sondage contient certaines questions qui permettent aussi de faire un suivi sur le processus de deuil du membre de la famille, afin de leur offrir des ressources de deuil au besoin.

Le sondage est réalisé par téléphone. Vous allez pouvoir insérer les réponses directement dans une base de données.

Les bénévoles s'engageant à faire les appels et entré les données une ou deux fois par semaine.

CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Catherine Booth Hospital Feeding Assistance Dining Experience Program

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

The goal of this volunteer service is to enhance the nutrition, hydration and emotional well-being of patients by creating a pleasant patient experience while eating a meal that includes feeding assistance and socialization with a volunteer under the supervision of nursing staff.

Let's make the experience of eating the most pleasurable, safe, and nutritious possible. By assisting and sitting one on one with a patient, you can help feed, stimulate and motivate a patient to eat their meal in a more pleasurable manner while ensuring that they proper time is given to properly chew and swallow food and drinks safely.

A mandatory training is provided to qualify for this activity.

Volunteers can also provide a friendly room visit after dining.

CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Rehab Assistant Richardson Rehabilitation Hospital

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

A volunteer will be part of our multi-disciplinary team and work primarily with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and social service staff.

Job description:

-greeting patients with a friendly disposition and encouraging conversation

-to work cooperatively with professional staff by following directives

-safely accompanying assigned patients during rehabilitative walks, and chair exercise treatments.

-pushing clients in wheelchairs between bedroom, rehab room and common areas (wheelchair training is provided)

-assisting discharged patients with patient satisfaction surveys

-some clerical work (printing, photocopying, scanning, sorting, etc.)

CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Patient Visitor Richardson Hospital

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

Provide a cheerful and supportive room visit to patients during their down time from rehabilitation.

Activities can include: general topic discussions, Ipad activities, reading, simple activity

CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Wellness Visitor NDG area

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

Take walks with senior and provide a cheerful home visit on a weekly basis

CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Visitor/Walking Support Côte St Luc area

Côte-Saint-Luc

Visit a senior at home to provide cheerful conversation while available for other activities such as walks outdoors and running errands such as groceries.

CLSC René-Cassin (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest de Montréal)

Recruiter/Promoter

If you are a person interested in marketing, public relations, and graphic design, you can have the opportunity to be part of our recruitment team.
You would be responsible for recruiting volunteers for at least 8 sites, a variety of tasks and locations are offered to the candidate(s) that have most creativity, flexibility, languages, and motivation to get the job done.