What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hospice Volunteer position at Ahava Hospice?
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Ahava Hospice Volunteer
Ahava Hospice is growing and looking for Volunteers to join our teams’ mission and believe in our core values! Our mission : To show unconditional love through purposeful actions, providing wholehearted, individualized care to those in their end of life journey.
Our Core Values...
L - Luminous care for patients and their families
O - Offering comfort and support during difficult times
V - Valuing every life with dignity and respect
E - Empathetic professionals providing person centered services
Responsibilities :
- Participate in general orientation
- Serve as an integral member of the interdisciplinary group amid various settings : home care; respite; inpatient, bereavement and / or administrative; office duties.
- Serves the patient and family / caregiver under guidance of Volunteer Coordinator and Case Manager or as a part of the administrative team.
- Serves as substitute family / caregiver in the home performing activities that the volunteer has been prepared for and has agreed to perform. The volunteer may do homemaker chores, run errands, and provide respite care as well.
- Documents as educated and instructed maintaining confidentiality
- Meets all health requirements set by Ahava Hospice and Palliative Care
- Provides availability on a regular basis and / or keeping with the patient and family / caregiver needs
- Participates in volunteer support groups and / or educational in-services.
- Maintains open communication and reports regularly to the volunteer coordinator.
- Assignment of other duties (as needed) directed by the volunteer coordinator
- Participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities
- Participates in interdisciplinary group meetings, as appropriate
Qualifications :
Mature individual, supportive of the hospice concept, comfortable with his / her own spirituality and willing to serve others in a volunteer capacity.
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