Palliative Care Victoria

Victorian Palliative Care Volunteer Standards and Templates

The Department of Human Services Victorian Palliative Care Volunteer Standards (2007) provides program standards and volunteer service standards for the Victorian palliative care sector. These are designed to:

• foster greater awareness of the role of volunteers in palliative care
• support and promote volunteer engagement in palliative care; and
• limit organisation legal liability with regard to volunteer engagement in palliative care services.

A selection of sample resource documents and templates are also available to enable organisations to easily compile volunteer policies and procedures.

National Standards related to palliative care volunteering

Palliative Care Australia’s 3 key policy documents also guide palliative care volunteer service provision – see Key Reference Documents

National Volunteering Standard and Resources – see Volunteering Australia for national volunteering standards and other key volunteer information and resources.