Operation: Veteran Connect Whole Health Volunteer Partner Assistant

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Are you retired from the military or are you from a military family? Want to do something fun and challenging with other awesome people? Want to serve again and keep doing something that matters? Become part of a new community with a chance to gain experience, skills, and connections for a job or school application. Keep serving your country and make a real difference in peoples’ lives.

You can help veterans or military family members step into civilian life. You will serve in the "Operation: Veteran Connect (OVC)" program to get things done by helping Tampa Bay area veterans. Seniors in Service of Tampa Bay, in partnership with James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, seeks to engage veterans and members of military families as OVC volunteers to help other veterans and military families access benefits and services. Volunteers serving through Operation: Veteran Connect bring their own talents and gain valuable new skills to support the VA’s exciting, new Whole Health for Life initiative, an approach to health care that empowers people to take charge of their well-being and live their life to the fullest.

Whole Health Volunteer Partner Assistant

As a volunteer serving through Operation: Veteran Connect, you will gain valuable skills while giving back to your community. In this highly visible role, the volunteer will support the VA Hospital's Whole Health initiative. Volunteers will be trained to serve Veterans at the VA Hospital, Primary Care Clinic and at the Whole Health Office. Volunteer duties include helping Veterans:

• Assist with facilitation of different health events like the Whole Health Orientation, Introduction to Whole Health, and Taking Charge of My Life and Health.
• Support with in-service, training, consultative and other professional activities.
• Assistance with orienting Veterans to the traditional VA services as well as the growing list of available Whole Health services and programs.
• Assistance with advocating any effective Complementary and Integrative Health services that will aid the Veteran in achieving SMART health goals and progress with their Personal Health Plan.
• Help establish support networks in the Tampa community enabling the Veteran to choose from both VA and non-VA services in support of SMART health goals

Position Requirements:

• Veteran or Military Family Member
• Flexible Monday thru Friday between 8:30 am- 4:30 pm
• High school graduate or GED recipient
• Member must pass a TB Tine test
• Member must pass a National Criminal History Background check to include an FBI background check via fingerprints, a local background check, and their name run through the National Sex Offender database ( www.nsopw.gov). This is contingent on any Member beginning their service year.

Position Benefits:

• Ongoing support to maximize skills, gain relevant experience and boost your resume
• Trainings
• Meet new people, learning new skills and improving self-worth
• Meal ticket voucher(s) with daily minimum service hours (4 hours+)
• Free annual flu shot and TB test