Operation: Veteran Connect Whole Health Volunteer Special Groups 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.

Serving as Operation Veteran Connect Volunteer can help veterans or military family members step into civilian life. If you are a veterans or military family member, you will serve together in the "Operation: Veteran Connect" 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 Operation: Veteran Connect volunteers to help other veterans and military families access benefits, programs 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 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 Special Groups Assistant

As an Operation: Veteran Connect Volunteer, 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 for Life initiative. Volunteers will be trained to serve Veterans at the VA Hospital, Whole Health Office and Primary Care Clinic. Member duties include helping Veterans:

• Support with in-service, trainings, consultative and other professional activities by assisting with class set up, administration and logistics.
• Assist with the facilitation of special trainings and orientations provided by the Whole Health Program including: Healthy Training Kitchen, Mindfulness Classes and other holistic modalities.
• Assist with available health coaching services to Veterans with complicated, multiple physical and mental health diagnoses.
• Assist the facilitator during presentation, patients greetings, check-ins, and goodbyes, with the distribution of forms, class assistance, moving equipment and data entry.
• For Healthy Training Kitchen only: Ensuring food preparation area are clean and hygienic, washing utensils and dishes and making sure they are stored appropriately, sorting, storing, and distributing ingredients, washing, peeling, chopping, cutting and cooking foodstuffs and helping to prepare salads and desserts.
• For other modalities only: Assistants take a stand for the student in need of support during class, be present and aware of the students needs and ensure the room space is safe.

Position Requirements:

• Veteran or Military Family Member
• Flexible schedules (4-8 hour shifts) between 8:30 AM -4:30 PM Monday through Friday
• 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.
• Physical requirements: Prolonged sitting, walking and reaching

Position Benefits:

• Ongoing support to maximize skills, gain relevant experience and boost your resume
• Trainings includes VA General Orientation Program, Privacy and Security Awareness/HIPPA/Whole Health Competencies and Workshops
• Meal ticket voucher(s) with daily minimum service hours
• Meet new people, gaining experience and improving self-worth
• Great for individuals wishing to have a career in social work and education
• Free annual flu shot and TB test