- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Bilingual Hospice Helper needed
ORGANIZATION: Elara Caring
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Right Care. Right Time. Right Place. Specializing in compassionate care for the patient, family and caregivers at the end of life, when they need the support the most. Our focus is the patient's quality of life, providing symptom and pain management in the comfort of their preferred home setting.
Description
Elara Caring Hospice volunteers are compassionate, giving individuals from all walks of life who share the most precious gift they have - their time - to enhance the lives of others.
We're always happy to connect with compassionate BILINGUAL people who want to give back to their communities in a meaningful way. No special skills are necessary just a listening ear and an open heart.
Volunteer Positions Available:
- Patient Comfort & Care: Provide bedside support to patient and/or family through respite care or companionship.
- Administrative Care: Provide clerical support by assisting in office with administrative duties and weekly in-touch calls.
- By Your Side & Bereavement Care: Provide support to patients and their families while patients is transitioning; assist with sympathy mail-outs, calls and visits.
- Contribute your talents to the patients: Games, reading, photography, crafts, sewing, hair care, lawn care, carpentry, gardening, birthday parties, letter writing, laundry, weekly phone check-ins, pet companionship, art expression and music appreciation.
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Dr. Seuss
Hours are very flexible! You can choose from weekdays, evenings, and weekends. Typically, we ask you to donate an hour of your time once a week.
The onboarding process includes a background check, and TB test to maintain compliance with the TEXAS Department of Public Health.
For any questions, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator Misty Alva 210-517-6239
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About Elara Caring
Location:
300 Landa Street, New Braunfels, TX 78130, US
Mission Statement
We provide you the appropriate type of care wherever you call home. Our team’s understanding of a patient's health needs allows us to deliver proactive, customized care that improves quality of life and keeps you comfortable and safe at home. Elara Caring Hospice volunteers are compassionate, giving individuals from all walks of life who share the most precious gift they have - their time - to enhance the lives of others.
Description
Elara Caring is one of the nation’s largest providers of home-based care, with a footprint in the Northeast, Midwest and South. Elara brings together three award-winning organizations - Great Lakes Caring, National Home Health Care, and Jordan Health Services - into one transformational company, which provides the highest-quality comprehensive care continuum of personal care, skilled home health, hospice care and behavioral health.
Elara Caring leads patients through the post-acute care journey by providing the appropriate level of care, delivered wherever our patients call home. The company’s intimate understanding of its patients’ needs allows it to apply proprietary platforms to deliver proactive, customized care that improves quality of life and keeps patients in their homes.
The company, comprised of 35,000 caregivers serving over 60,000 patients and their families daily, in 225 locations across 16 states, is focused on providing patients with the right care, at the right time, in the right place.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
300 Landa StreetNew Braunfels, TX 78130
DATE POSTED
June 4, 2024
SKILLS
- Bereavement Support
- Hospice Care
- Spanish
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 16
- Orientation or Training
- 2 - 4 hours a month
- Very flexible. Needing volunteers to visit Spanish speaking patients in Lockhart, Luling, Seguin, Bulverde and New Braunfels area nursing home and assisted livings.