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About HealthFlex: Looking to make a difference? Join a team founded by nurses, where empathy is our driving force. At our agency, we believe healing happens best in the comfort of home, allowing patients and their families to cherish their time together. As one of the nation's largest privately owned agencies, we're dedicated to serving communities across the San Francisco Bay Area, North Bay, and the Central Valley. If you're passionate about delivering exceptional care and making a meaningful impact, we'd love to have you on board.
Position Summary: As a hospice volunteer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of life for our patients and their families. Volunteers provide companionship, emotional support, and respite for caregivers. Join us in providing comfort, dignity, and support to those in need. Your time and compassion can make a profound difference.
Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities:
- Serves as an integral member of the interdisciplinary group amid various settings; home care; respite; inpatient; bereavement; and/or office duties.
- Participates in general Orientation
- Serves the patient and family/caregiver under guidance of VolunteerCoordinatorand 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 as instructed maintaining confidentiality
- Meets all health requirements set by HealthFlex Hospice.
- Provides availability on a regular basis and/or keeping with the patient and family/caregiver needs.
- Participates in volunteer support groups and/or educational inservices.
- Maintains open communication and reports regularly to the Volunteer Coordinator.
- Assignment of the 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.
- Personal fulfillment from making a positive difference in the lives of patients and families.
- Training and ongoing support from the hospice team.
- Opportunities to develop new skills and gain valuable experience.
- Being part of a compassionate and supportive community.
Requirements
- Mature individual, supportive of the hospice concept, comfortable with his/her own spirituality and willing to serve others in a volunteer capacity.
- Successful completion of a hospice's volunteer training and orientation program
- Previous volunteer experience may be helpful.
- Ability to work within the interdisciplinary group.
- If making home visits, must be a licensed driver with an automobile that is insured in accordance with state and/or organization requirements and is in good working order.
