Volunteer Learning

Training to help you help others with palliative care

Palliative care volunteers provide practical help and companionship to people living with advanced illness, their carers and families.

Online learning resources for volunteers are listed below. They will be added to as new resources for volunteers are released.

Other general information about volunteering and about palliative care are also listed.

Palliative Care Volunteering NSW

Palliative Care Volunteers in NSW has a series of resources for training volunteers. This includes Palliare: A Handbook for Palliative Care Volunteers in NSW and a series of associated quizzes.

palliLearn

Palliative Care Queensland has an innovate community education program that is open for all.

Supporting a Person Who Needs Palliative Care (280kb pdf)

This is an online pdf guidebook that provides basic but practical information for family and friends, carers or volunteers, who are assisting in care provision for a person who is in the palliative phase.

Palliative Care Victoria Volunteers Training Kit

This series of nine modules provides competency-based training across various topics in palliative care for volunteers. Training kits can be purchased for use.

Palliative Care NSW Volunteer Support Services Programme

Comprehensive palliative care volunteer training resource.

When you decide to become a volunteer most organisations will arrange for training after your application has been approved. For more on this see:

Palliative Care Victoria - Introduction to volunteering

Palliative Care New South Wales - Volunteering

Palliative Care Queensland - Volunteer Village

Palliative care Western Australia - volunteering

Palliative Care Tasmania - Palliative care volunteers

Palliative Care ACT - Become A Volunteer

8 things you need to know about getting involved in palliative care volunteering

CareSearch: Patients, Families and Friends

Eastern Palliative Care (EPC) volunteer services