Hospice Volunteers Needed

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Volunteer Job Description

Position: Companionship Volunteer

Objective:

Companionship Volunteers offer friendship, socialization, respite care and non-medical support to the patient and caregiver.

Qualifications:

· Patience, compassion, flexibility and good active listening skills

· The ability to establish and maintain boundaries

· Relate to others with sensitivity and warmth.

· Maintain a non-judgmental attitude.

· Reliable and dependable.

· Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.

Responsibilities:

· Provides regularly scheduled visits with the patient. Visits may be strictly social or could include light meal preparation, shopping, running errands, providing a steady arm to move about the house, light housekeeping chores, transportation, and other tasks as reasonably requested by the family. An attempt is made to match volunteers and families so that time spent is valuable for both. Companions do not do personal care or administer medications.

· Maintains the privacy and security of all confidential and protected health information. Uses and discloses only that information which is necessary to perform the function of the job.

· Maintain accurate records of time and activity.

· Communicate any concerns, challenges or changes you observe in your patient and their environment with Advantage Home Health & Hospice staff.

· Respond to patients and Advantage Home Health & Hospice staff in a timely manner.

· Attend a minimum of one continuing education or refresher trainings offered by Advantage Home Health & Hospice Staff.

Required Minimum Training:

· Completion of volunteer application, background checks, and health screenings.

· Completion of the Advantage Home Health & Hospice Volunteer Training Class.

· Attend a minimum of one continuing education or refresher trainings offered by Advantage Home Health & Hospice Staff annually.