Community Wellness Farmer's Market Assistant (Wednesdays or Thursdays Only)
SPRINT Senior Care
Toronto
Canada
Onsite
7/25/2025
10/23/2025
Reports To: Community Wellness Program
Program Description:
Meals-on-Wheels is primarily a nutrition program with therapeutic, preventative and social components. The service involves the safe and efficient delivery of hot and frozen meals to persons who are unable to attend to their own nutritional needs. These clients include the elderly, disabled, chronically ill and/or convalescent. Referrals to other services, safety checks and friendly contacts are desirable components of the program. Meals are delivered by volunteers and when volunteers are not available, staff assistant. The program also aims to enable clients to access nutritious, affordable food via food related programming such as holding Farmer’s markets, market excursions, food-related community events.
Position Summary:
Under the supervision of the supervisor or designate, the Farmer’s Market assistant will be responsible for the setup of tables and selling of produce at the designated Farmer’s market site. The volunteer will serve customers by helping to bag purchases and tallying individual orders, making change from a cashbox supplied by the program and finally disassembling and cleaning up the market site. The market volunteer assistant must have the physical capacity to for lifting up to 30lbs and setting up lightweight tables.
Quality, Health & Safety/Risk Management:
In order to reduce risk to clients, employees, volunteers and the agency, SPRINT Senior Care expects that all employees and volunteers will work within the mandate of their job description, and abide by the policies and procedures of the agency. Each employee is responsible for his/her own safety as well as that of fellow employees.
SPRINT Senior Care expects every employee and volunteer to work and participate in quality improvement efforts. This is an organizational philosophy that seeks to meet clients’ needs and exceed their expectations by using a structured process that selectively identifies and improves all aspects of service.
Training:
Program Description:
Meals-on-Wheels is primarily a nutrition program with therapeutic, preventative and social components. The service involves the safe and efficient delivery of hot and frozen meals to persons who are unable to attend to their own nutritional needs. These clients include the elderly, disabled, chronically ill and/or convalescent. Referrals to other services, safety checks and friendly contacts are desirable components of the program. Meals are delivered by volunteers and when volunteers are not available, staff assistant. The program also aims to enable clients to access nutritious, affordable food via food related programming such as holding Farmer’s markets, market excursions, food-related community events.
Position Summary:
Under the supervision of the supervisor or designate, the Farmer’s Market assistant will be responsible for the setup of tables and selling of produce at the designated Farmer’s market site. The volunteer will serve customers by helping to bag purchases and tallying individual orders, making change from a cashbox supplied by the program and finally disassembling and cleaning up the market site. The market volunteer assistant must have the physical capacity to for lifting up to 30lbs and setting up lightweight tables.
Quality, Health & Safety/Risk Management:
In order to reduce risk to clients, employees, volunteers and the agency, SPRINT Senior Care expects that all employees and volunteers will work within the mandate of their job description, and abide by the policies and procedures of the agency. Each employee is responsible for his/her own safety as well as that of fellow employees.
SPRINT Senior Care expects every employee and volunteer to work and participate in quality improvement efforts. This is an organizational philosophy that seeks to meet clients’ needs and exceed their expectations by using a structured process that selectively identifies and improves all aspects of service.
Training:
- Orientation session and package
- First market is accompanied by the Community Programs Supervisor or Co-ordinator
- Report to the market site for 12:30 pm on Market Day to receive market list, set up tables
- Assist Farmer’s Market Driver to unload produce from vehicle to tables
- Repackage unsold produce, load into vehicle
- Clean up site, fold up tables if necessary
- Be familiar with emergency procedures
- Every 3rd Wednesday of the month, from 12:30pm to 3:30pm at 384 Mt Pleasant Rd.
- Every 4th Wednesday of the month, from 12:30pm to 3:30pm at 3179 Yonge St.
- Every 1st Thursday of the month, from 12:30pm to 3:30pm at 130 Eglinton Ave E.
- Every 2ndThursday of the month, from 12:30pm to 3:30pm at 18 Davenport Rd.
- Every 3rd Thursday of the month, from 12:30pm to 3:30pm at 801 Mt Pleasant Rd.
- A 6-month commitment should be considered
- Interest in community-based social service and/or food services to an older adult population.
- Satisfactory Police Records Check (we will pay for this).
- Ability to demonstrate good judgement and tact.
- Ability to bend and lift no more than 30lbs.