Carolina Meadows is a nonprofit Continuing Care Retirement Community. Our mission is to enrich and improve the lives of residents and those connected to our community. YOU can play are part in that!
We offer a continuum of services to our older adult residents who live in Independent Living, Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing Care or Memory Care.
YOU can brighten an older adult’s day and gain real-world experience that will broaden your perspective of what you could do and who you could serve in your future career. If you are pursuing Nursing, Hospitality, Medicine, Social Work, or Music (and the list goes on) consider our volunteer opportunities as way to connect what you’re learning in the classroom with a population of folks who often come from the same professions and have so much to teach us through their lived experience.
If you like learn about different people and cultures, play games or music, listen to and tell stories or share your hobbies or technical expertise, we are the place for you. There’s no limit to the benefits social connectedness and intergenerational relationships can have on you and our residents, especially after this past year of social isolation due to COVID-19.
Main Duties
- Get to know older adults living in The Pines (Skilled Nursing building), The Fairways (Assisted Living) and the Green (Memory Care) at Carolina Meadows Retirement Community by serving as an Activities Assistant.
- Help residents enjoy activities such as music, art, games, Scrabble, charades, puzzles, chair volleyball, and ice cream socials.
- Tasks include moving tables and chairs for different activities, setting up supplies and cleaning up after activities, gathering residents for activities, taking residents back to the nurse’s station after activities.
- Depending on the activity, help residents by finding the page in songbook, assist using a paintbrush, draw Pictionary words, act out charades, toss a balloon to residents, help residents mark a Bingo card, play Uno or Scrabble with residents.
Time Commitment
- Shifts of 1 to 2 hours with best times of day between 9:30 am to 12:00 pm or 2:00 to 5:00 pm weekdays. Limited opportunities are available on the weekends.
- Minimum commitment of 6 months from completion of pre-screening requirements.
Time Commitment
- Shifts of 1 to 2 hours with best times of day between 9:30 am to 12:00 pm or 2:00 to 5:00 pm weekdays. Opportunities are available for experienced volunteers on weekends.
- Minimum commitment of 6 months from completion of pre-screening requirements.
Requirements
- A friendly smile, patience, kindness
- Complete a Volunteer Application
- Complete a Criminal Background Check (online, link emailed by HR)
- Provide verification of full COVID-19 vaccination (includes a booster). If you have not received a booster, you would have to take a rapid COVID-19 test prior to each weekly volunteer shift.
- During flu season (October through April), provide verification of flu vaccination
- Provide verification of TB skin test completed within the last 12 months with a negative result. If you have not received one within the last 12 months, Carolina Meadows will pay for you to receive one.
- Attend an in-person volunteer orientation
- Receive an interview
Desired Traits and Qualities
Friendly smile, patience, kindness, compassion, communication, ability to follow directions and ask questions for clarification if necessary.
For more information and to apply, contact Eileen Ferrell, Volunteer Manager at eferrell@carolinameadows.net.
