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Comfort & Support Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: UnityPoint Hospice & Taylor House
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2 people are interested
Be a part of our top ranked, non-profit hospice team!
Contact us now to be included in our Summer, 2020 training! We are taking applications!
The safety of our volunteers is a high priority for UnityPoint Hospice. Due to COVID-19, we have decided to pause on providing volunteer services in patient homes and hospice houses. We are hopeful for the day when our lives return to some sense of normalcy and the excellent support volunteers provide to our patients and teams can resume. We will be ready to on-board new volunteers!
Volunteers support patients through companionship and friendly visits. Volunteering is your opportunity to find a connection with a patient - perhaps you’ve both been fly fishing in Alaska? Or maybe you share a love of quilting or crafting? Sometimes our patients want a volunteer to read to them or play card games. Other times a family care giver wants a respite or a few hours to get groceries or lunch with a friend and they are comforted knowing that a volunteer is able to be with their loved one.
Hospice volunteers are needed to provide care and comfort to patients in their homes in our community. Volunteers must:
- Be supportive of the Hospice concept
- Have successful incorporation of losses in own life
- Have the ability to maintain confidentiality
- Show emotional maturity
- Be dependable
- Utilize listening skills
- Have the ability to accept people the way they are
- Be able to work as a team member
- Have a willingness to accept supervision and guidance
Hospice does not prolong life nor does it hasten death, but instead focuses on creating a life full of comfort, dignity and peace for people in the final stages of life. Hospice addresses the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of every patient while also providing support for the entire family. The sooner a patient receives hospice care, the sooner these comforting benefits begin.
This is an incredibly rewarding opportunity to make an impact to a patient in your neighborhood.
More opportunities with UnityPoint Hospice & Taylor House
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About UnityPoint Hospice & Taylor House
Location:
11333 Aurora Avenue, Urbandale, IA 50322, US
Mission Statement
We are your local non-profit hospice! Mission: Improve the health of the people and communities we serve. Vision: Best Outcome Every Patient Every Time
Description
What do you think of when you hear the word hospice? While hospice services are provided for those at their end-of-life journey, the process is really about living. Along with our hospice team, volunteers provide comfort and support for a patient and their family. Our volunteers ensure that each step of the journey for our patients fulfills UnityPoint Hospice’s goal - help patients and their families live every moment.
UnityPoint Hospice in central Iowa is consistently ranked at the top of the Medicare.gov hospice ratings locally and scores above the national average in every category of the family caregivers’ survey results: communication with family, getting timely help, treating patient with respect, emotional and spiritual support, help for pain symptoms, training family to care for patient, rating of this hospice, and willing to recommend this hospice.
At UnityPoint Hospice we make sure each patient is comfortable and receives the best possible care. Join us by becoming a volunteer!
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Multiple locations around the Des Moines Metro!Des Moines, IA 50320
DATE POSTED
April 3, 2020
SKILLS
- Veteran Care
- Hospice Care
- People Skills
- Bereavement Support
- Patient Care
- Social Work
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 2-4 hours monthly patient contact
- Annual recertification and training, flu shots