Hospice Volunteer Coordinator

Empyrean Hospice hires Volunteer Coordinators to plan, coordinate, and manage all volunteer program activities for a specific Empyrean Hospice branch and the patients, families, and community it serves.

Salary or hourly rate listed is the base for this role; increase commensurate with experience.

Position Overview Volunteer Coordinator:

Represent Empyrean Hospice with the utmost professionalism and compassion

Develop and maintain the volunteer training and orientation program

Strong communication, interpersonal, and organization skills

Recruit, educate, and coordinate volunteers from recurring recruitment sessions

Establish volunteer services needs with the patient and family/caregiver and entire hospice interdisciplinary team

Provide hospice education and the volunteer role in hospice to the community and prospective volunteers

Maintain monthly statistics, personnel files, budget adherence, and documentation

Ensure standards of ethical business and clinical practice are prioritized

Who is Empyrean Hospice?

With Empyrean Hospice, we are family. We are committed to caring for people at end of life with the same level of dedication and compassion we would choose for our own loved ones. Our core values are the foundation for our dedication to integrity and clinical excellence.

Empyrean is a national company with community heart. We provide resources and leadership to support our care teams across the country so they can focus on the quality-of-life care and clinical excellence for the patients and families we serve. Our culture fosters a focus on our care delivery with work-life balance and support for our team members through manageable caseloads and professional growth supported by a team of expert leaders.

Empyrean offers ongoing professional education opportunities, manageable caseloads, and a benefits package for eligible employees.

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits include paid time off (PTO), dental, health, life, and vision insurance, an employee assistance program, and professional development assistance

Mileage reimbursement plan

Opportunities for professional growth and advancement

Position Qualifications

Professionalism, compassion, empathy, and a desire to help others

Self-directing with the ability to work with little direct supervision, yet also as member of a complete care team

College degree, advanced degree in human services preferred

Minimum of 2 years' experience in a health care setting, hospice and/or volunteer experience preferred

Understands the hospice philosophy and end-of-life care

Ability to organize, supervise, and develop volunteer hospice personnel for both patient and organizational needs

Ability to manage a group of individuals providing volunteer time and who will be considered employees

Demonstrate good verbal and written communication, and organization skills

Computer proficient with Microsoft suite

Valid driver's license and reliable transportation

Must possess a willingness to maintain comprehensive working knowledge regarding information systems and applicable software programs

Empyrean Hospice is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or veteran status.

Candidates for employment with Empyrean understand that Empyrean expressly does not want employees to use, and employee's responsibilities and duties with Empyrean will not require or involve, any trade secrets or other confidential information secrets that employee may have obtained from former employers or any other third party. Further, Empyrean expects and facilitates disclosure of, and compliance with, any obligations with any prior employers or other third parties that may legally apply to an employee.