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Flexible Schedule
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Tinley Park, IL 60487
VITAS is looking for kind and caring volunteers to help terminally ill patients and their families. When you make friendly visits, run simple errands, provide a listening ear, and offer the gift of friendship at a crucial time, you can make a real difference in another's life. Yours, too! Take advantage of numerous volunteer opportunities, including: Sitting with a patient while the caregiver takes a break Making friendly visits to patients and their families at home or in a nursing home Driving a patient to appointments Accompanying a patient to a church function, wedding, beauty shop, play, or ballgame Running errands to the grocery store, drug store, or post office Assisting with programs and special events VITAS provides free training and orientation for volunteers to help learn the skills required to be an outstanding hospice volunteer. Volunteering also strengthens your resume for a post-college career. For more information about VITAS Volunteer Services, visit https://www.vitas.com/volunteer.
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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Bradley, IL 60915
Administrative volunteers promote hospice care by helping perform clerical assignments in an office setting. These assignments can include helping process mail outs, filing, data entry, answering phones, restocking supplies, making packets, plus many other tasks. VITAS Volunteer orientation is provided free of charge to help you learn the skills required to be an outstanding Office Volunteer. Volunteers are needed between the hours of 8am and 5pm, Monday through Friday. For more information about VITAS Volunteer Services visit https://www.vitas.com/volunteer.
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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Joliet, IL 60435
MSW students will gain valuable experience while providing terminally ill patients and their families with psychological and social support, under the guidance of a VITAS MSW field instructor and team manager. Students will serve as members of the VITAS interdisciplinary patient care teams while assisting patients and families in accessing community resources and governmental benefits and assessing patient and family needs and potential crisis situations. Students also will help patients and families identify grief issues and provide bereavement services. VITAS MSW student interns must be enrolled in a Master of Social Work program at an accredited college or university. All MSW student interns must attend new-employee orientation, which includes shadowing VITAS care providers, during the first month of the internship. For more information about VITAS Volunteer Services visit https://www.vitas.com/volunteer.
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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Tinley Park, IL 60487
MSW students will gain valuable experience while providing terminally ill patients and their families with psychological and social support, under the guidance of a VITAS MSW field instructor and team manager. Students will serve as members of the VITAS interdisciplinary patient care teams while assisting patients and families in accessing community resources and governmental benefits and assessing patient and family needs and potential crisis situations. Students also will help patients and families identify grief issues and provide bereavement services. VITAS MSW student interns must be enrolled in a Master of Social Work program at an accredited college or university. All MSW student interns must attend new-employee orientation, which includes shadowing VITAS care providers, during the first month of the internship. For more information about VITAS Volunteer Services visit https://www.vitas.com/volunteer.
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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Bradley, IL 60915
MSW students will gain valuable experience while providing terminally ill patients and their families with psychological and social support, under the guidance of a VITAS MSW field instructor and team manager. Students will serve as members of the VITAS interdisciplinary patient care teams while assisting patients and families in accessing community resources and governmental benefits and assessing patient and family needs and potential crisis situations. Students also will help patients and families identify grief issues and provide bereavement services. VITAS MSW student interns must be enrolled in a Master of Social Work program at an accredited college or university. All MSW student interns must attend new-employee orientation, which includes shadowing VITAS care providers, during the first month of the internship. For more information about VITAS Volunteer Services visit https://www.vitas.com/volunteer.
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2023
