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152 people are interested
Central Austin Area - Hospice Volunteer Visits w/ Patients
ORGANIZATION: AccentCare Hospice
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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152 people are interested
Austin Metro Area Hospice Volunteers Needed
Thank you for exploring being a hospice volunteer with AccentCare Hospice . We are looking for hospice volunteers to provide companionship to our patients who are living in facilities or in their homes.
DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT STUFF FOR HOSPICE?
Many people are not completely familiar with the concept of hospice. In very general terms, hospice provides palliative care to terminally ill patients. This service also includes supporting their caregivers. Besides providing for patients’ comfort, hospice is responsible for maintaining their safety and privacy.
Since volunteers in hospice are part of our care team, our volunteers, as with all our employees, must become familiar with the 'hospice" team concept, philosophy, and approach to end-of-life issues. Also, your emotional well-being is our concern; we want you to be prepared in everyway for this type of work, which can be so rewarding. Not surprising then, our volunteer orientation process is more involved than walking in and immediately helping out.
First of all, all of our volunteers must be 18 years of age or older. We also require that our prospective hospice volunteers fill out an application packet, read our hospice training manual, and thereafter attend a multi-hour in-office training session.
The application packet includes consent documents, whereby you authorize the verification of all information on your application, including but not limited to your character, to your employment and education history, as well as to your motor vehicle, financial, and criminal history. Only those volunteers that ask to be assigned to patients will be tested beforehand for TB (at the company’s expense). After successfully completing our training process, all newly minted hospice volunteers will then be eligible for their first assignment as a member of our hospice team!
We truly value our volunteers and support them any way we can. We want you to have a great volunteer experience. If hospice still feels like a good fit for you, we invite you to contact us to learn more.
Regardless of what you decide, you have our greatest admiration. Good luck wherever you choose to volunteer.
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About AccentCare Hospice
Location:
3520 Executive Center Drive, Ste. 320, Austin, TX 78731, US
Mission Statement
AccentCare Hospice is committed to excellence in care and service. By providing quality care through a multidisciplinary team of trained and skilled professionals, our goal is to exceed the expectations of our communities, caregivers, patients and clients. Through personalized teaching, guiding, assisting, patient care and customer service, we provide the highest level of independence, dignity, comfort and support to people in the last stage of life. Our goal is to help the patient have a peaceful, comfortable death with dignity and assist the family with grief and loss issues.
Description
AccentCare Hospice provides hospice care to patients where they reside. Our focus is to empower our patients and their families to live their lives to the fullest despite the terminal illness. We provide an interdisciplinary team, including a volunteer, for each patient and family to meet their physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
3520 Executive Center Drive, Suite 320Austin, TX 78731
DATE POSTED
December 22, 2022
SKILLS
- Veteran Care
- Hospice Care
- Patient Care
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 17
- Orientation or Training
- Minimum of up to 1 hour twice Monthly