Hospice Volunteer

Overview

Come join our Altus Hospice Volunteer Team! Are you caring and compassionate? Do you have a passion for helping others?  Then we would love to have you as a hospice volunteer! 

Altus Hospice's volunteers are provided the preparation and training they need to comfortably and successfully complete their chosen assignments.  Some volunteers receive additional training based on their selected area of service. Altus Hospice has multiple office locations where we serve patients located across the Central and Southeast Texas areas, extending from the Louisiana state line to Mexico border and up through Central Texas north of Austin, as well as the surrounding towns.  We currently have twelve offices located in Alice, Austin, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Georgetown, Kingwood, Laredo, Livingston, Marble Falls, San Antonio, San Marcos, and Sugar Land serving more than 70 surrounding counties.

Become a hero on your own termsOn your own time. In your own way. With your personality. Your ability to relate. Your own skills. Your way of solving a problem, sharing a story, or helping somebody remember important moments in their lives. If you are crafty, we can also use your help in making homemade gifts for our hospice patients! If you play an instrument, music is a beautiful way to bring therapy to a patient. If you have a therapy dog, we could use you and your furry loved one!

Altus Hospice provides professional care with a personal touch. We accomplish this by focusing on both the patient and their family. We will treat the disease process with medical expertise while emphasizing quality living, not only physically, but also psychosocially, emotionally and spiritually. Comfort, compassion and calming presence are the gifts we bring to this service, and we are honored to walk with the patient and loved ones through this special time.

*Volunteers are not employed and do not receive compensation for their time*

Responsibilities

Patient Care Volunteers are part of a patient’s care team. They make home visits to offer companionship for patients and relief for caregivers. Examples of patient care volunteer opportunities include reading to the patient, assisting with a hobby, listening, running errands, or grocery shopping.

Organizational Volunteers do not work directly with patients and families. Examples of organizational volunteer opportunities include work in our offices to support our care team or help patients and families through indirect support, such as assisting with our Transitions program, creating special memories for holidays, patient birthdays and anniversaries, planting flowers or mowing a yard for a patient that is unable to continue doing so, and helping with other needs of our patients and families.

Qualifications

• Understanding and supportive of hospice philosophy.
• Compassionate person who is accepting and respectful of people's differences.
• Must be a licensed driver with an insured automobile in good working order, if making patient visits.
• The ability to communicate well, both verbally and in writing.
• Must be able to pass background check requirements.
• CMS requires that all patient-facing staff, as well as those that are in contact with patient-facing staff, be fully vaccinated, or have a documented religious or medical exemption. This important rule is required for all healthcare organizations that receive federal funds through Medicare or Medicaid.

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