Seeking compassionate volunteers to provide additional support to Amedisys Hospice patients and caregivers in various meaningful ways. Amedisys Hospice offers various types of volunteer opportunities all throughout Charleston, Dorchester, and Berkeley counties including:
- Compassionship Volunteers:
- The keystone of volunteering, our direct care visits provide companionship, socialization, and emotional support to our patients and families.
- Can take place in a private residence, skilled nursing facility, assisted living, or general in-patient unit.
- Volunteers can provide active listening, life review, spirtual support, reading, playing music, arts and crafts, or simply a warm and welcoming presence.
- Caregiver Respite Volunteers:
- Visits allow caregivers to attend appointments and special events.
- Volunteers provide support for caregivers suffering from fatigue and at risk for burnout.
- Professional Volunteers:
- Professional visits that require additional onboarding requests from volunteers and specialized patient consent.
- Visits include pet therapy teams, massage therapists, reiki, nail technicians, comsetologists, and music therapists.
- Biography Volunteers:
- Patients and caregivers are interviewed to shsre their life's story.
- Volunteers beautifully capture their story through a one-page bio and collect photographs to create a memorative keepsake.
- Veteran Volunteers:
- Active Duty and Veteran Volunteers provide companionship, emotional support, and life review to our Veteran patients.
- In partnership with We Honor Veterans, all Veteran patients should be offered a personalized pinning ceremony and bestowed a certificate, Veteran pin, and gratitude for their miltary service.
- Veteran Community Projects:
- Opportunity for community collaboration in area schools, senior centers, volunteer groups, scouting groups, etc.
- Additional opportunity to celebrate the Veteran patients for a broader audience and share the message of the care center's quality patient care.
- Vigil Sitting Volunteers:
- No one should walk the hospice journey alone. As patients near end of life and begin the stages of actively dying. Our specially trained vigil sitting volunteers sit beside and provide support and a calming atmosphere.
- Bereavement Volunteers:
- Volunteers provide emotional and grief support to caregivers through one-on-one visits, support groups, and via telephone.
- Volunteers may attend funeral and memorial servives and work administratively on bereavement mailings and other tasks.
- Administrative Volunteers:
- Work in the care center or remotely from home.
- Typical tasks include answering phones, assembling admission packets and mailings, and other administrative tasks.
- Tuck-In Volunteers:
- Weekly check-in calls to patients and caregivers to assess supply and care needs.
- Calls are exclusively conducted for home patient census.
- Pen-Pal Volunteers:
- Personalized cards and letters are written to patients as encouragement and for companionship.
- Letters may be sent weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.
- Crafting Volunteers:
- In the volunteer spirit, homemade gifts bring good cheer and lift the spirits of our patients and their families.
- Typical crafts include lap blankets, flower arrangements, Veterans' gifts and bereavement gifts.
The onboarding process includes a volunteer application, interview, onboarding paperwork, reference check, TB testing (where applicable), training and education, graduation, first volunteer visit with an Amedisys team member, and then you're off to provide support to our patients and caregivers!
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