Volunteer: Veterans Supporting Veterans in Hospice

Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice is seeking veteran volunteers to help support veteran patients during their end-of-life journey. Volunteers will provide companionship and assist in honoring veterans, creating a meaningful impact on their experiences. No prior healthcare experience is necessary; a compassionate and friendly demeanor is essential.

Qualifications

• No experience with healthcare required for volunteers.
• Must be dependable, patient, and kind-hearted.

Responsibilities

• Support veteran patients by providing companionship.
• Assist in ceremonies to honor veterans.

Skills

Dependable

Punctual

Flexible

Patient

Non-judgmental

Friendly

Good Listener

Kind-hearted

Job description

Volunteer: Veterans Supporting Veterans in Hospice

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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.

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Residential Hospice is seeking Veteran Volunteers to support Veteran patients and their families through their end-of-life journey. Hospice patients have a terminal diagnosis and a limited life expectancy, and they and their loved ones are often dealing with many emotional stressors while in the care of hospice.

Why we need Veteran Volunteers

• Veterans share a common language, experience and culture that other volunteers may not be able to bring to the relationship
• Some Veteran patients only feel comfortable reminiscing and sharing their stories with other Vets. Some hospice patients feel the need to process their stories and experiences to obtain closure, and a Veteran volunteer can help them do that.
• Veteran volunteers can help us honor the vets we have on service, many of whom served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
  
  

Veteran volunteers can help in a variety of ways, from giving our patients the chance to talk, reminisce and have some companionship, to assisting us in ceremonies to honor the veterans on our service. We know that many Veterans are born volunteers, and your unique perspectives and experiences can be meaningful to our veteran patients and their families during their end-of-life journey.

No experience with healthcare is necessary - to be a good hospice volunteer you need only to be dependable and punctual, flexible and patient, non-judgmental and friendly, a good listener and kind-hearted. If this seems like something that would be a good fit for you, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

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• Job function

  Other

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  Civic and Social Organizations and Non-profit Organizations

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