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Client Support Volunteer
Volunteer Visiting Program
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Impact Statement
Client Support Volunteers provide emotional and social support, companionship and practical help to people with a life limiting illness and their families. Volunteers enrich people's lives by sharing their gifts of listening, caring, friendship, humour, respite care, and time.
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Description
Hospice is seeking Client Support Volunteers to provide emotional and social support to individuals living with a life-limiting illness and their families.
We are in need of volunteers living in both Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge.
We are also in need of volunteers who speak languages in addition to English, such as Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, or Croatian.
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Position Qualifications
Ideal for: An Individual
Age: 20+
English Proficiency, Confidentiality, Specialized Training, Work Without Supervision
Area(s) of Interest: Caring Support, Health Care / Wellness, Senior Services
Skill(s): Interpersonal Communication, Verbal Communication, Sensitivity, Empathy, Respect
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Training / Work Condtions
Training Details: 35 hour training course required in-person; the next course will take place in Fall, 2023. Applications for this training are being accepted now.
Working Conditions: Volunteers will support their client in the client's place of residence, be that home, hospice, hospital or long term care setting.
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible entrance, Wheelchair accessible washroom, Designated accessible parking space, Accessible work space, Support Newcomers
Transportation: On a bus route
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Time Commitment
Duration: 1 year or more
Weekday - Daytime
Volunteers will be ask to be available 2 to 4 hours each week after the training. Day time availability is preferred.
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http://www.hospicewaterloo.ca
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Send an Email Message
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Diana Cooke
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519-743-4114
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100 Solstice Way Waterloo, N2K 0G3
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Kitchener,Waterloo,Cambridge
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