Our Community: Volunteers

Volunteers

The volunteer ‘Companions of Joondalup Health Campus’ make a wonderful and important contribution to our hospital.

Our volunteer program is approved and registered as a non-profit organisation by the Department of Fair Trading. All volunteers are required to have a police clearance and sign a declaration of confidentiality and conflict of interest document.

The volunteers must all attend an orientation workshop and refresh this information annually and they are issued with ID cards and a distinguishing apron so they are easily recognised.

The Companions of JHC provide assistance in most wards and many departments of the campus through the Volunteer Program.

Currently there are 82 active members who between them conduct two daily trolley visits - one with sweets, emergency toiletries, some magazines and the daily paper, and the other for distribution of donated books or magazines. Suitable reading material in the ED is refreshed from this trolley.

Wards that request a volunteer receive regular help with simple non-medical tasks as well as a companion for their patients.

The program continually seeks occupation for volunteers, since if there is little to do it quickly loses members. Volunteer activities complement JHC services, and the program is vital to those in need.

For more information about the Companions of JHC, please call volunteer coordinator Maxine Monk on (08) 9400 9456.