Volunteer Coordinator - Hospice jobs in Columbia, SC

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.