Volunteer Training
SolarisCare Volunteer Training Seminar
Continuing Professional Development 2010
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Training Seminar
Venue:
Morning Session : SCGH Level 8 – Blue Lifts - ‘Joske Lecture Theatre’
Afternoon Session : Green Lifts – Clinical Education Training Room
Presenters: Trish Williams, Eileen Ryan, Helen Cadwalleder, Malcolm Stewart & Judy Griffiths
Volunteers are the heart of SolarisCare. Without your loyalty and your generous donation of time, energy and skills we would not be able to provide all of the services we now offer to patients and their carers.
These Seminars are designed to provide you with information about the patient experience. About what they are going through, the diagnosis, the treatment options, what is actually happening to their bodies, so that the services we offer improve the quality of life of the patient and enhance your experience as a volunteer. We want your experience to be rich, the skills you have to be used appropriately and for your services to be retained.
Therapist Volunteers: Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
This pilot project acknowledges that SolarisCare therapists who are members of a professional organisation are required to maintain continued professional development, which includes seminars/conferences/workshop/teaching etc. It is planned that SolarisCare will develop a point system for complementary therapists to use in establishing continuing professional development.
It is planned that each year SolarisCare will provide a range of activities that complementary therapists seeking SolarisCare accreditation will be able to access to maintain and develop skills to ensure that they retain the capacity to practise safely, effectively and legally within their evolving scope of practice.
This pilot project will assist in building a volunteer training course for all SolarisCare volunteers, whether a therapist, a meet and greet volunteer or other skill specific volunteers who work in an oncology setting.
These seminars are in no way complete; we invite interested therapists and other volunteers to send us suggestions/feedback.
For information on these seminars, please download the following document :
2010 VOLUNTEER TRAINING SEMINAR MAY 7th.pdf
Registration form :
One in three Australians are affected by cancer. Thanks to improved medical treatment people are living longer.
The SolarisCare Foundation is playing a vital role in improving the wellbeing and quality of life of people living with cancer.
If you have the time and expertise and are interested in contributing to the SolarisCare Research group, please contact Dr Anna Petterson at the SolarisCare centre on
9346 7632 or by email for further information.