Silvera for Seniors

This is a seasonal opportunity. 

Silvera's bike program uses Trishaw bikes and Tandem bikes. With the Trishaw bike, the volunteer bike pilot will pedal our e-assist Trishaw bike with one or two passengers in the front seat. Check out the video to see the bike in action. https://vimeo.com/326058270

The tandem bike, is a reclined bike where volunteers bike beside the resident -

This opportunity requires the pilot to be at least 18 years of age and assume responsibility for cleaning, safety and documenting the rides. The volunteer will engage with residents while taking a leisurely bike ride through the neighbourhood. These rides give residents the opportunity to enjoy nature, movement and social connection with the volunteer and their community.

This is a seasonal opportunity. 

Many of our communities have large outdoor garden spaces that need tending. This job would entail regularly weeding and general maintenance of the garden beds. You would need to have at least an intermediate level of gardening "know how" as this will be mostly independent work. 

Residents who live with us have various interests. We love it when volunteers share their hobbies and passions with us. 

Examples of this could be:

A volunteer who loves to play guitar and sing has invited Residents to join him in a sing along program.

A volunteer that is a university student has brought in science experiments to engage our Residents. 

We have volunteers fluent in other languages that run English as a Second Language programs for Residents.

We would love to hear about your passion and how we might bring it to our Residents. If you have an idea, tell us about it in your application. 

You will be assisting Residents and Staff during large community events. This may entail, set up and and cleanup, decorating, serving food, assisting Residents to complete a task, and maybe even talking on the microphone as our MC. Some typical special events would be: Stampede Breakfasts, Christmas Dinners, and Intercommunity challenges.

Some additional requirements for this opportunity may include: Food Safe Handling Tutorial or a ProServe qualification.

As an Arts Project Facilitator you will be responsible for implementing and delivering programs such as art projects, woodworking, photography, dance and music programs.

For example:

We have a volunteer who uses their artistic skills in the evening to run a paint night program that our Residents love to participate in.

We have a wide variety of religious and spiritual groups that volunteer with us. What might this look like?

- running church services

- leading bible studies

- church choirs

-facilitating a drum circle

The Physical Activity Facilitator will be responsible for implementing or assisting  with the delivery of programs such as lawn darts, bocce ball, shuffleboard, floor curling and bowling-just to name a few! Some duties may be setting up equipment, keeping score, bending, kneeling, socializing with Residents, or cleaning equipment.

We even have opportunity for you to run physical programs if you have the proper certification, (examples of this would be, yoga, tai chi, drumming). 

Gather Residents to join you in some friendly competition.

An example of this is:

Volunteers come in to play crib with Residents on a regular basis.

Many of our communities have a variety of board and card games that you are welcome to use with Residents. 

You will be setting up the ice cream social station, scooping ice cream, and handling money. This is a good opportunity to socialize with the residents. This opportunity requires completion of the Food Safe Handling Tutorial, available under the "Training" tab on your profile. 

The duties include: setting up the bar, serving wine, beer, mixed drinks or snacks, collecting payment, cleaning up tables, and of course having some good chats. The volunteer will get the chance to learn about our Residents and share some life stories. 

This role will require ProServe qualification and Food Safe Handling Tutorial, available under the "Training" tab on your profile. 

Are you interested in VR and sharing the experience with residents at Silvera? 

Silvera has Rendever VR systems that allow for group or individual virtual programming. As a VR Program volunteer you will get to work with groups or individuals to facilitate virtual experiences such as world travel, adventures, reminiscing, and more that are available on the Rendever platform and that are tailored for seniors.

The VR system also allows residents with vision loss such as macular degeneration to experience a greater level of vision because of the closeness and wrap-around screen in the head-sets.

Cultural volunteers offer group programs that help residents connect to their personal culture and language, or give residents the opportunity to learn a new culture and language. 

Volunteers may also meet with individual residents for coffee time to provide social connection in the residents first language.

Some languages that residents could use volunteers for with include:

• Mandarin
• Cantonese
• French
• Ukrainian
• Spanish
• Hindi
• Arabic
• Russian
• ASL

Speak a different language than what is listed? Let us know in your application.

Our Community Connection Volunteers help provide direction and social connection to residents and visitors in our some of our larger communities. In this role you will be trained to be able to answer common questions for residents and visitors, to help direct people within our buildings, to share and promote community activities and programs, inform residents of neighbourhood resources and be an additional welcoming and friendly connection in our buildings.