Volunteer Needs From: United Way of Portage County Volunteer Center

Moments Hospice provides care to patients and their families in their own homes or senior living communities throughout your area.  We offer a wide variety of volunteer positions: 

Patient Visitor Volunteer - A volunteer seeing a patient may read aloud, listen to music together, play board/card games, learn about the patient’s life story, or simply just sit with the patient.  Veteran Visitor - A Veteran volunteer who visits Veteran patients.  Volunteer must have served or are currently serving in the military. Pet Therapy Volunteer - A volunteer seeing a patient may share their love for animals by allowing the patient to pet, talk, and love on your pet.  If your pet knows any tricks, many patients love this aspect, too! Must be Pet Therapy Certified and have proof of rabies vaccination.  Bereavement Volunteer - Moments Hospice provides support to family members for 13 months after the patient passes away. Bereavement volunteers make follow-up calls to family members and assist in mailing sympathy cards and newsletters to our bereaved families. Administrative Volunteer - Make calls to patients, help with admin duties at home or in the office, help unpack supplies in the office, etc.

 

Requirements: 

Driver's license Background check Reference Checks   Must be at least 18 years of age Orientation, training, and 20 forms to fill out TB testing (blood draw)

 When applying, please let us know which opportunity you are interested in.

 

Moments Hospice is looking for volunteers to join our team. Our patients have a terminal illness diagnosis and are in their final stages of life. As a Hospice Volunteer you will be visiting patients in their home or in nursing facilities.

We need volunteers who will help us reach our number one goal of making sure each patient gets the best care and support they need to make every moment of life count. You will be providing a break for family caregivers as well.  Please note that all patient volunteers must be Covid vaccinated.

Volunteers can do some of the following:

Visit a Veteran. Read the paper or a book to a patient. Share hobbies. Play & listen to soothing music. Talk to patients. Bring flowers from a garden. Share photos. Just sit quietly and be the gift of presence for them.

The benefits of being a Moments Hospice Volunteer include:

Enhancing a volunteer’s sense of self-worth by befriending someone with great wisdom but a limited opportunity to share it. Giving the volunteer the opportunity to practice important skills used in the workplace, such as teamwork, communication, problem solving, project planning, task management, and organization. Meeting new people and gaining a different perspective on life.

 

Moments Hospice is a Medicare Certified Hospice Agency serving the Stevens Point, WI area. We are focused on creating individual plans of care, because every patient and family is unique. Moments Hospice is committed to honoring patient’s and family’s wishes during the end of life process. We take great pride in creating long lasting partnerships with our Hospitals, Facilities and Community Partners by recognizing that we are guests in their facilities and that collaborating on a joint plan of care always results in the best outcome for the patient. It is our mission to help increase the communities awareness of the Hospice Benefit as we believe that everyone deserves to be comfortable with an optimal quality of life during the end of life process.