Volunteer

Volunteering at Lakeridge Health is an exciting opportunity to join others who share a desire to contribute to the health care of our community. Volunteers are an essential part of the Lakeridge Health team and help to create a caring, collaborative, and compassionate environment across our hospitals, our long-term care home in Ajax, Lakeridge Gardens, and in our numerous community facilities, including our state-of-the-art Surgical Centre, the Jerry Coughlan Health & Wellness Centre.

At Lakeridge Health, we are dedicated to creating an environment that mirrors the diversity of Durham Region. We invite everyone in the community to join us in building a more diverse and inclusive group of volunteers to help shape a vibrant and inclusive community and support health-care in Durham Region. Learn more in our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism Multi-Year Action Plan.

Special Notice: Thank you to our community!

This past spring we received incredible interest from our community for the volunteer program.  In response, our application portal is currently closed. We thank everyone who completed the application form and for those not contacted for an interview at this time. Please know we will keep your application on file for 6 months and connect with you, as there are openings in your identified healthcare sites and interests. 

We are actively recruiting for the following roles. If you are interested in any of the following activities, please email volunteer@lh.ca.

  1. Retail

  2. Pinewood Addiction Services

  3. Spiritual Health Visitor

To learn more, please visit the How to Become a Volunteer page for information on our process and expectations. 

High School Student Volunteer Update

Our application portal for the High School Summer Student program is now closed. This program will help us determine our plans for in-hospital high school student volunteers, so please visit this site again for any updates. 

Note: Lakeridge Gardens Long-Term Care Home in Ajax accepts new high school student volunteers year-round. If you are interested in this facility, please email volunteer@lh.ca and our team will connect with you.