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Client Support 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.
Male Volunteers especially needed!
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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.
Male Volunteers especially needed!
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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, 2024. If you have daytime availability to attend training and for daytime volunteering, 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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