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
- Accompany individual residents to activities of interest in the Club Center Auditorium (such as Metropolitan Opera, Saturday night movie, weekend music recitals).
- Accompany individual residents to on campus performances (such as musicians, dancers, roleplays).
- Accompany individual residents to social activities (such as Afternoon Tea, Happy Hour, Ice Cream Socials).
Time Commitment
- Shifts of 2 to 3 hours with most activities between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm or 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm on weekdays or weekends.
- Minimum commitment of 6 months from completion of pre-screening requirements.
Requirements
- Ability to safely push a wheelchair
- 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
For more information and to register for an orientation, contact Eileen Ferrell, Volunteer Manager at eferrell@carolinameadows.net.
