Care Center Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Knox Area Rescue Ministries
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Purpose/Overview: The Care Center Volunteer will provide overwhelming Biblical hospitality to guests who are seeking ministry services at KARM. This volunteer has a passion for working through relationships and conversations that will connect our guests with needed services and support. The skilled Volunteer will have the freedom and flexibility to foster relationships with guests at KARM through encounters in a numerous areas of the KARM Care Center with a focus on mental and physical health services through collaboration with other agencies and medical professionals. This is a specific assignment to assist the physicians in the Care Center.
The KARM ministry equation of Rescue+Relationships=Restoration is a guiding mission for this role.
Responsibilities:
- Attend a SPERO training class
- Training provided in Care Clicks and the medical documentation needed in the Care Center
- Training provided in lab needs for diagnosis of needs
- Convey hope, extend Biblical hospitality, and patiently build relationships with new guests while acquainting them with procedures, facilities, and guidelines
- Conduct interviews and input guest information into SPERO system while seeking to maintain the dignity of our guests and offer overwhelming Biblical hospitality
- Be willing to communicate steps and directions as well as follow up with individuals to monitor and encourage progress
- Collaborate with the physicians who are face to face encounters or via telehealth appointments.
Time Commitment: One 4 hour shift per week, M-F, hours are 8-11am and/or 1-3:30pm.
Qualifications:
- Mature follower of Jesus
- Great boundaries
- Comfortable with basic computer functions/data entry with efficient keyboarding skills
- Good listener
- Self-starter and motivator of others
- Friendly demeanor; good interpersonal skills
Training/Preparation:
- KARM specific boundaries training Infection Control/Universal Precautions
- Attend orientation to KARM offered to new guests
- Conflict Awareness training
- Job shadowing with experienced staff for at least three shifts
- Infection Control/Universal Precautions training provided by KARM
- LaunchPoint and New Life orientation
- Attend orientation to KARM offered to new guests
- Observe Frontline process
2 Shifts
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morning /
08:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Monday-Friday
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afternoon /
01:00 PM to 03:30 PM
Monday-Friday
- NONE OF THESE TIMES WORK FOR ME, BUT I CAN STILL HELP
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About Knox Area Rescue Ministries
Location:
418 N. Broadway, Knoxville, TN 37917, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to seek to rescue the poor and needy of the Knox Area by providing recovery services in Jesus' name.
Description
Rescue, recovery and restoration - these three words represent both the promise of healing and the power of hope at Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM). Established in 1960 as the Knoxville Union Rescue Mission, we began as a shelter for homeless alcoholic men. Since then, KARM has been feeding the hungry, helping the needy and healing the wounds of lives shattered by homelessness, poverty, violence and despair. Indeed, our mission statement captures the commitment to this urgent need: "Our purpose is to seek to rescue the poor and needy in the Knox area by providing recovery services in Jesus’ name." By reaching out to hurting, homeless men, women and children in Jesus’ name, we seek to restore lives.
In addition to food, shelter and other basic necessities, we offer alcohol and drug counseling, group counseling, life skills training, parent education and family enrichment, educational opportunities and job training experiences. Our services are designed to repair the wounds of shattered lives and renew hope in people’s hearts by reminding them that they are not discarded or forgotten. KARM is the only agency in the Knox area that provides emergency overnight shelter and meals to all homeless in need. In additional to meeting the emergency food and shelter needs of thousands, an additional goal is to move those in hopeless and desperate circumstances to a residential status of stability and hope.
Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM) is a local Christian ministry devoted to rescue, recovery and restoration, who for over 49 years has worked to heal the hurting, feed the hungry, and shelter the homeless in our community. KARM is a key partner in the Knoxville Mayor’s Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness and works closely with other agencies to help facilitate getting the homeless off the streets and into safe permanent housing. Our professional affiliations include membership in the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions and the Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
418 N. BroadwayKnoxville, TN 37917
DATE POSTED
March 19, 2024
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training