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Flexible Schedule
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Cincinnati, OH 45249
Help a hospice patient look good and feel better by providing a bit of style at the end of life. VITAS Healthcare is looking for kind and caring professional stylists to pamper hospice patients living at home, in the hospital or in long-term care facilities. Pampering can include: polishing and buffing nails; gentle shampoo, set and style; haircut; helping with makeup. Patients have very sensitive skin therefore, no curlers/curling irons or chemicals will be used. Current Cosmetology License is required For more information visit: https://www.vitas.com/volunteer
Date Posted: 2024-03-25
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Flexible Schedule
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Cincinnati, OH 45249
Student interns gain valuable experience in end-of-life care while meeting their institutional requirements for an internship. Some interns provide direct support to patients and families while other interns provide indirect support through their office administrative duties. Students can fulfill other designated and agreed upon responsibilities. The students will provide services under the supervision of a VITAS staff member who best matches their field of study. Internships are limited, so contact us early if you are interested For more information visit: https://www.vitas.com/volunteer
Date Posted: 2024-03-25
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Flexible Schedule
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Cincinnati, OH 45249
VITAS is looking for kind and caring people to help terminally ill patients and their families. Friendly visits, simple errands, providing a listening ear, and the gift of friendship at a crucial time, can make a real difference in another person's life. Yours, too! Other VITAS volunteer activities include: relief care (sitting with a patient while the caregiver takes a break); friendly visits to patients and their families at home or in a nursing home; driving a patient to appointments; accompanying a patient to a church function, wedding, beauty shop, play, ballgame; run errands to the grocery store, drug store, post office; assist with programs and special events. VITAS Volunteer orientation is provided free of charge to help you learn the skills required to be an outstanding hospice volunteer. Times and dates are ongoing and flexible For more information about VITAS visit www.VITAS.com
Date Posted: 2024-03-25
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Flexible Schedule
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Cincinnati, OH 45249
VITAS invites friendly and well-behaved pets to join the Paw Pals program, in which animals and their humans learn how to visit patients at the end of life. A registered VITAS Paw Pals visitor can offer comfort, bring back memories, encourage activity and provide unconditional love to VITAS patients. Your visits leave behind memories of you and your pet, and rekindle thoughts of other pets. All kinds of pets are invited to join VITAS’ Paw Pals Program. Pet visits can sometimes reach a patient when no one else can. Our Paw Pals brighten the day for everyone when they visit. Paw Pals must be well-groomed, at least one-year old, and have up-to-date health records For more information visit: https://www.vitas.com/volunteer
Date Posted: 2024-03-25
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Flexible Schedule
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Cincinnati, OH 45249
MSW students will gain valuable experience while providing terminally ill patients and their families with psychological and social support under the guidance of a VITAS MSW field instructor and team manager. Students will serve as members of VITAS interdisciplinary patient care teams while assisting patients and families in accessing community resources and governmental benefits and assessing patient and family needs and potential crisis situations. Students will also help patients and families identify grief issues and provide bereavement services. VITAS MSW student interns must be enrolled in a Master of Social Work program at an accredited College or University. All MSW student interns must attend new-employee orientation, which includes shadowing VITAS care providers, during the first month of the internship. Internships are limited, so please contact us early if you are interested For more information visit: https://www.vitas.com/volunteer
Date Posted: 2024-03-25
