Art Therapy Program: • Open Art Group is held in Laurel Hospice. All art materials and activities are designed to be user friendly, there are no artistic skills required. It is encouraged that patients, family, friends, staff and volunteers to participate. • The Art Therapist is a qualified art psychotherapist who works in a palliative care setting and is part of a multidisciplinary team where the primary focus is the care of the whole person, physically, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically and socially. Art Volunteers work under the supervision of the Art Therapist and are well guided and supported.
• Art threads creativity through the hospice that builds a creative and humanistic culture. • Art is offered as a safe way to explore, experience and provide a creative opportunity for reflection; relaxation; recounting stories; reviewing dreams, hopes and identity; encouraging motivation; sensory engagement; processing grief; and making memories. • Hand casting in a palliative care setting creates an opportunity for patients and their loved ones to share a unique experience. They are powerful representations and leave a meaningful legacy for their family members. A volunteer who loves to get their hands in clay and help in this wonderful process would be great. • Treasure Bears are unique and personalised bears designed as a legacy or symbolic memory of significant people who have died. An article of clothing or fabric is chosen that best express the relationship with a loved one. The Treasure Bear creates a sensory bridge between the deceased and a family member. A volunteer who loves sewing would be great to help make these wonderful legacy Treasure Bears. • Music: the Reverie Harp can be played by anyone without any training, believe it or not, and apart from the many individuals who now enjoying playing it, the Reverie Harp is finding its way into hospices and hospitals. A volunteer who loves therapeutic music and play the Reverie Harp for hospice patients would be wonderful. • Art Painting Trolley offers patients a choice of a painting they wish to live with in their room. • And so much more….

Good listening skills; Good emotional and physical health, be a team player. Position requires that the applicant will have to undertake mandatory annual OHW&S training.