Auxiliary Volunteer Services

A hospital greeter is often the first point of contact for patients and visitors, helping create a welcoming and supportive environment. Their role is focused on assistance and guidance rather than clinical care.

Typical responsibilities include:

Welcoming patients and visitors as they arrive

Providing directions to departments, clinics, or patient rooms

Answering basic questions about hospital services and facilities

Assisting with check-in processes or guiding people to registration areas

Ensuring visitors follow hospital policies (like visiting hours or sign-in procedures)

Beyond these tasks, a greeter plays an important human role—offering reassurance, reducing confusion, and helping people feel more at ease in what can sometimes be a stressful environment.

An in-patient volunteer supports patients who are staying in the hospital, helping make their experience more comfortable and less isolating. While they don’t provide medical care, they play an important supportive role alongside healthcare staff.

Typical responsibilities include:

Visiting patients to offer companionship and conversation

Providing reading material, activities such as crossword puzzles, adult colouring etc.

Assisting with non-clinical needs like adjusting pillows or helping patients get settled.

Supporting meal service (e.g., handing out trays or helping patients open packages). As permitted by medical staff, providing hot beverages or water to patients. 

In-patient volunteers help create a more caring, human-centered environment by providing comfort, reducing loneliness, and giving patients a friendly presence during their stay.

A volunteer in a dialysis clinic provides non-medical support to patients who are receiving regular treatments, helping make long and often tiring sessions more comfortable.

Typical responsibilities include:

Greeting patients and helping them feel welcome and at ease

Offering companionship during treatment (conversation, reading, or quiet presence)

Providing comfort items like blankets, pillows, or refreshments (if allowed)

Assisting with small tasks such as organizing personal belongings or adjusting seating (non-clinical only)

Supporting staff with light administrative or organizational duties

Helping maintain a calm, clean, and supportive environment

Because dialysis treatments can take several hours and occur multiple times a week, volunteers play an important role in reducing boredom, anxiety, and isolation by simply being present and attentive.

Working in conjunction with Canadian Blood Services organization, volunteers are provided for several local blood donor clinics throughout the year.

Help a great community service by making a comfortable atmosphere for blood donors.

If you enjoy gardening, you might enjoy volunteering your services in maintaining our hospital gardens

Working in conjunction with Community Care for Seniors organization, volunteers assist with meal delivery during the month of September. Spread cheer as well as food.

Volunteers working in an administrative capacity by receiving and managing all remembrance donations made to the Auxiliary.

Administrative volunteers participate in a challenging and interesting process of advertising, selecting and awarding scholarships for high school students and mature students. 

For further details click on the Scholarships link. https://www.pecmhaux.ca/sponsorships

The PECM Hospital Auxiliary reviews all requests from not-for-profit and community organizations with funding to improve local healthcare and wellbeing. 

For further details click on the link for the Community Funding page. https://www.pecmhaux.ca/community-funding

In partnership with the O.P.P. "Keep Kids Warm" program. A relaxing social get-together to produce and create quality crafts for the Festval Of Trees and the community.

All staff in the store are volunteers who participate in a wide variety of tasks in this friendly retail environment brimming with donated treasures.

Members and volunteers prepare preserves using locally sourced produce, along with a variety of baked goods, for sale at community markets throughout the year in support of fundraising efforts.

This major annual fundraising event offers a wide range of opportunities for volunteers to contribute their skills, including selling tickets, monitoring displays, decorating, and assisting with the bake sale.

Be a part of Picton's Marathon Bridge group that donates funds to the PEC Memorial Hospital through the Auxiliary.

Contribute to preserving the Auxiliary’s legacy by collecting and maintaining its historical records.

Introduce new volunteers to the Auxiliary and place them in a role of their choice.

Maintain Membership & Volunteer records and Board Documents.

Organize our social activities that usually include 2 General Meetings, 1 Annual General Meeting, and our annual Volunteer Appreciation Event.