Hoarding Support Volunteer

7 days ago

Toronto, Canada VHA Home HealthCare Full time

**Hoarding Support Volunteer (Mental Health, Motivational Interviewing)**

**Volunteers must be able to Etobicoke, East York, and Downtown Toronto**

Founded in 1925, VHA is a not-for-profit, charitable organization made up of over 3,000 diverse professionals - nurses, personal support workers, rehab therapists, home support workers, extreme cleaners, and office support staff. Together, we provide high quality care, with great heart, to vulnerable populations in the communities we serve. This includes seniors, families, new parents, newborn babies, people with physical and mental disabilities, children with medically complex needs, and the terminally ill. We provide service 24 hours a day, seven days a week to clients in their homes, in schools, in retirement homes and other locations in the community. In every role and at every level, we lead with purpose, build bonds that matter, and we’re passionate about providing spectacular care. VHA Home HealthCare (VHA) believes that quality care begins with quality people. Our volunteers work directly with our clients and make a difference in people’s lives every day. We’re looking for volunteers who share and enhance VHA’s values

**Role Description**: Improve quality of life of our clients in the Volunteer Hoarding Support Program. The program is designed to help vulnerable, isolated individuals with hoarding tendencies de-clutter, sort and organize their homes. Developed from a harm reduction approach, we provide clients with opportunities that help improve their social, physical, mental and emotional health.

**AREA SERVED**: Toronto, North York, East York, Scarborough, Etobicoke

**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS**
- Assist clients to de-clutter and organize their living space
- Assist clients to let go and discard items
- Assist clients to establish realistic and client-driven goals for organization, maintenance, and safe living

**Other responsibilities**
- Work with clients at their own pace, while maintaining clear goals
- Foster and establish appropriate use of cleared living spaces
- Be attentive to clients emotional state
- Submit Volunteer Log to the Supervisor after each visit
- Report concerns immediately to the Program Supervisor
- Maintain confidentiality of client information
- Notify the Supervisor as soon as possible if unable to volunteer on an assigned date
- Attend monthly support meeting.

**TIME COMMITTMENT**
- 3 hours plus travel time weekly (once a week)
- 12 weekly visits make one volunteer assignment
- Visits happen during weekday hours between 9-5pm

**AGE REQUIREMENT** Minimum be 18 years-old

**QUALIFICATION**
- Good active listening and oral communication skills to work one on one with client in client's home
- Motivated and patient
- Interested in mental health issues and compulsive hoarding
- Comfortable working with a client in their home
- Friendly, reliable, responsible, non-judgmental and non-discriminating
- Able to act independently within the boundaries of the position description and client needs and goals
- Creativity in planning and implementing activities
- Knowledgeable of available community resources (For example: local dumpsters, community health centres, donation drop-off facilities etc.)
- Experience working in the mental health field an asset.

**BENEFITS**
- Receive excellent training provided by VHA's regulated professionals
- Develop skill sets in working in mental health
- Personal growth and professional development
- Resume building
- Make an impact
- Reference letter upon request following 100 hours of volunteer service

**ORIENTATION AND TRAINING**
- Orientation training by VHA regulated professional
- Monthly Volunteer Support Meeting with training component.

**SCREENING AND SUPERVISION**
- Application form with 2 references
- Interview
- Signed Volunteer and Confidentiality Agreements
- Clear Vulnerable Sector Screening check
- Report to supervisor on a weekly basis and submit weekly log
- Supervisor will be available for feedback and support

**For more information, to apply**:

- Roxana Condo - Program Assistant, Volunteers _

**About VHA Home HealthCare**

Since 1925, VHA Home HealthCare—a not-for-profit, charity—has empowered Ontarians to create possibilities for more independence. VHA’s team of over 2,000 support clients in throughout Ontario and are a founding member agency of United Way Toronto.

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