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5 people are interested
Give Your Heart to Hospice: Become a Hospice Volunteer!
ORGANIZATION: Redeemer Health HomeCare and Hospice - Mercer County
Please visit the new page to apply.
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5 people are interested
This Valentine's Day, open your heart to hospice and become a Hospice Volunteer!
Often our volunteers tell me, "I get more out of being a Hospice Volunteer than I give." If you are ready to explore this way of supporting our community, please request an Introductory Packet , which will have more details about what is involved, than I can post here.
What you should know now is that Holy Redeemer HomeCare and Hospice is a non-profit agency; not all hospices are. Holy Redeemer has also been delivering hospice care for a very long time.
We welcome caring individuals from the community to join our care team as Hospice Volunteers to provide the extras that patients, and their families, need to help them get through their sensitive and difficult time.
The main ways that volunteers help are by providing respite support (so family caregivers have an opportunity to take a break), companionship visits (so patients, and family members, have an opportunity to tell their story to someone new) and, sit vigil (so no one dies alone).
We also invite volunteers to bring with them their special skills to offer our families, like Massage, Healing Touch , and Pet Therapy . We could really use bilingual volunteers, too, especially, those who speak Spanish .
Our hospice services all of Mercer County, but we always have a concentration of patients in Ewing, Hamilton, Hamilton Square, Lawrenceville, Pennington, Titusville and Trenton. In fact, we can especially use a few volunteers who are comfortable visiting the heart of Trenton to support our patients there. However, as a volunteer you will tell us where you are comfortable traveling to .
Volunteers do need to complete a training and other on-boarding background checks. The next training will start in early to mid 2019. For full details request an Introductory Packet . As this Packet is printed, it needs to be mailed, so please provide a mailing address when replying to this post.
More opportunities with Redeemer Health HomeCare and Hospice - Mercer County
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Redeemer Health HomeCare and Hospice - Mercer County
Location:
2 South Gold Drive, Suite B, Hamilton, NJ 08691, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide progressive, compassionate home and community health services to all those in need. Holy Redeemer Hospice is dedicated to helping people with terminal illnesses to live their remaining time with their family and loved ones in the comfort of their own home, with dignity and as pain free as possible.
Description
Holy Redeemer Hospice provides home based care focused on comfort, dignity, and support to patients with a life-limiting diagnosis. Holy Redeemer Hospice provides interdisciplinary services, including nursing, social work, home health aides, physical therapy, and chaplain. Our team works with the primary care physician, patient, and family in developing a plan of care that meets the needs of both the patient and caregiver.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Throughout all of Mercer County,but especially, Ewing, Hamilton, Lawrenceville andwhere our office is:Trenton, NJ 08603
DATE POSTED
January 18, 2019
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- About 3 hours a week is traditional, but we hope you will be available for no less than 6 hours a month. We are willing to work with you to make your involvement happen, but you should have some time to give. ("Snow Birds" are welcome.)
- We need people we can trust, so background checks are done. Reliable transportation is needed to get to assignments. And we want you to be comfortable going on visits so an initial training and then on-going education is required.