Companionship Volunteer Needed

Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice; Taylor (MI); On-site; Full time

Job summary

Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice in Michigan is seeking volunteers to provide companionship to patients in their homes or long-term care facilities. Volunteers can engage in activities such as reading and sharing stories, bringing comfort and connection during end-of-life journeys.

By joining our team, you can help ensure that patients do not feel alone and provide valuable respite to caregivers, making a significant difference in their lives.

Qualifications

• Compassionate and empathetic individual willing to support patients.
• Ability to engage in meaningful activities with patients.

Responsibilities

• Visit patients at home or in long-term care facilities.
• Provide companionship through activities like reading and talking.
• Support caregivers by giving them brief breaks.

Job description

At Residential Healthcare Group, we are on a mission to positively impact our patients and their families and inspire a renewed sense of hope and confidence by providing exceptional home health, palliative, and hospice care.

To meet the unique needs of every patient and family, our extraordinary care teams serve as way finders and way makers by delivering individualized care plans and experiences, wherever you are.

We are governed by core values in dealing with one another, our patients, their families and caregivers, our partners, customers, and vendors.

We believe that exceptional care is best delivered in a collaborative environment and seek to continually transform the home health, palliative and hospice industries through our proven team-based approach to care management and delivery.

By educating our patients and their families, and advocating for those in need, we aspire to increase access to our industry-leading services at every stage of the patient’s journey, whenever and wherever they need us.

Residential Hospice cares for your medical needs as well as your spiritual and emotional needs. Our team is comprised of physicians, registered nurses, social workers, and spiritual care counselors that work together to care for the whole patient.

Residential Hospice is looking for volunteers to visit patients at home or in a long-term care facility. Companionship may include reading and talking to a patient, writing letters, reading a patient’s personal story or giving respite to caregivers.

Benefits

• Benefits For Patients: Knowing that they are not alone. The chance to see a new face and tell their stories. Their caregivers can take brief breaks and be fresh when they return. Having something to look forward to.
• Benefits For Volunteers: The satisfaction of bringing comfort to someone approaching the end of life. The chance to witness the beauty of families coming together for someone they love. The knowledge that you are a valued member of the hospice team.