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Lifespark Hospice Volunteer
Enhance many lives – yours included!
As a Lifespark Hospice Volunteer, you’ll make life easier for clients (and their families) through your simple acts of kindness. You provide client companionship and support services using your experience and the training we provide in accordance with our company policies.
Position Functions and Responsibilities
- Serve as integral member of the interdisciplinary group in various settings: client homes, assisted living, memory care, or skill nursing facilities; inpatient hospitals; hospice-homes.
— - May include administrative or office duties.
— - Provide emotional support or practical assistance to enhance the comfort and quality of life for patients and families/caregivers, which may include: reading; card games; letter-writing; listening to music; light housekeeping; meal preparation or errands, as requested.
— - May provide respite to allow families/caregivers to take time away from hospice client.
— - Maintains open communication and completes documentation of visits, per policy.
— - May attend interdisciplinary group meetings, as appropriate.
Qualifications
- Experienced individual, supportive of the hospice concept, comfortable with his/her own mortality and spirituality and willing to serve others in a volunteer capacity.
— - Successful completion of the hospice’s volunteer training and orientation program; annual training.
— - Previous volunteer experience preferred.
— - Ability to work within the interdisciplinary group and uphold Lifespark policies and procedures.
— - Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and appropriate boundaries, in accordance with policies.
— - Must pass a MVR check based on Lifespark company policy
— - Must be at least 17 years old
