Become a Volunteer Visitor and provide friendship and companionship to an older person living in an aged care home. ITALIAN SPEAKERS are encouraged to apply for this position (If you do not speak Italian, please apply for our other general Volunteer Visitor roles - we are always on the lookout for special people to be matched with older people looking for friendships all across the Central Coast).

The Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme (ACVVS) supports older people who are socially isolated by matching them with a Volunteer Visitor for regular 1:1 in-person social visits.

As a Volunteer Visitor, you will:

• meet regularly with an older person living in an aged care home in your local area
• connect with your new friend in ways that you both enjoy
• improve wellbeing and enhance social connections and sense of community
• provide a meaningful way for an older person to feel a sense of purpose
• reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation
• enhance and develop new skills and knowledge in aged care

Volunteer Visitors are:

• aged 18 years and older
• empathetic and have a genuine warmth towards older people
• good communicators and great listeners
• patient, kind and caring

Training: Online training. In-person orientation. Ongoing support. Peer networking.

Location: Umina for this position only. Other in-person visits can take place in a variety of aged care homes across the Central Coast

*An interview with Volunteering Central Coast is required. You will be contacted soon to arrange a mutually convenient time and place. ***