Be a hospice volunteer
TMC Hospice volunteers play an integral role in hospice services and provide helping hands, listening ears, companionship and support.
Join our volunteer program
Our hospice volunteer philosophy
Our hope is to improve the quality of life of our patients and families with the help of our volunteers, who are there to care, share, love, laugh, cry, listen and understand. Our volunteers bring the outside world in to someone who is home-bound and can bring solace and comfort to a patient with a gentle touch, a quiet word or a smile. Our volunteers are open to people's spiritual needs and are always concerned for the welfare of both the patient as well as the patient's family and friends. Is hospice volunteering for you?Some things to think about when deciding if hospice volunteering is right for you:
- Enjoy working as a team
- Enjoy learning new things and meeting new people
- Be flexible and able to accept change
- Be dependable and responsible
- Have compassion and a sense of humor
- Have come to terms with their own mortality
- Accept lifestyles and views of death and dying that are different than their own
- Know their boundaries and be able to say "no"
- Home Care
- Veterans Program (veteran status preferred)
- Peppi’s House Inpatient Unit Patient Support
- Peppi's House Inpatient Unit Front Desk
Areas of volunteering
Roles and tasks where volunteers help include administrative, inpatient unit support, home care and bereavement.
These volunteers work in a supportive and interactive team environment to provide support to patients, families and staff members as part of the care team at Peppi’s House. Inpatient volunteers can visit with patients and families, assist staff with patient care, prepare meals and stock supplies. They give tours, answer questions, sit with patients and talk with families. The work can be fast-paced one shift and more calm the next. Main duties for this role:
- Companionship/emotional support
- Answering call lights
- Communicating patient/family needs to staff
- Personal care assistance
- Delivering patient meals
- Folding linens
- Stocking supplies
- Straightening family rooms/light cleaning
