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Hospice Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Enhabit Home HEALTH AND HOSPICE
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We are always seeking compassionate, dependable and caring volunteers to be a part of our hospice care team. It is our mission to maximize the quality of life for our patients. Caregivers are burned out and patients are lonely.
Caregiver respite - caregivers need to have time away from the home for doctor’s appointment, grocery shopping or just have lunch with family or friend. The volunteer will sit with patient and provide companionship or simply sit with the patient.
Companionship/socialization - This can be reading to a patient (some request scripture), sitting with an unresponsive patient and just being a presence, letter writing, journaling. Some patients like playing cards or working puzzles. Mostly, what we call life review. Patients just like to share about their life. The greatest gift we can give them is to just be present and listen.
All volunteers complete a training in order to understand the hospice philosophy, the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of the patients and families.
More opportunities with Enhabit Home HEALTH AND HOSPICE
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About Enhabit Home HEALTH AND HOSPICE
Location:
3686 WASHINTON PKWY, Idaho Falls, ID 83404, US
Mission Statement
At Enhabit Home Health & Hospice, we believe hospice is not a place, but rather a philosophy of care. Our goal is to bring dignity and comfort home by offering compassionate care to patients and their families during the final stages of life.
Description
Enhabit Home Health & Hospice in Pocatello delivers compassionate care that helps hospice patients feel dignified and supported at the end of life. We work closely with the patient's entire care team to maximize their quality of life, keep them comfortable at home and offer guidance to them and their loved ones when facing a terminal illness.
Volunteers are an essential element to our care teams. Volunteers provide companionship, lend family support through respite care, and a myriad of other ways that the other disciplines cannot.
Our hospice volunteer team is responsible for serving thousands of patients, their families and our community. Volunteers assist in our children's bereavement camps and adult education groups that are offered free to the community. We plan to serve for years to come and will needs great staff and volunteers in order to continue our success.
CAUSE AREAS
Animals,
Community,
Health & Medicine
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
Multiple locations Idaho Falls, ID 83404
(43.42332 ,-112.01437 )
DATE POSTED
July 3, 2024
SKILLS
- Animal Therapy
- Hospice Care
- Music Therapy
- Singing
- String Instrument
- Social Work
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 14
- Orientation or Training
- We request volunteers dedicate at least two hour per week.
- All volunteers agree to a background check including fingerprinting and drug test.