Posted 4 days ago
Hospice Volunteer
@ Volunteer Success
Haliburton, Ontario
Overview
Haliburton Highlands Health Services (HHHS) is recruiting compassionate volunteers for its Hospice program in the community and on the Palliative Care unit at Haliburton Hospital. The work is ongoing, start-anytime, with a flexible schedule, in person. Volunteers provide companionship, listening, practical support and respite to caregivers, and receive training and supervision.
Responsibilities:
- Sit with clients and listen to concerns, fears and feelings
- Provide practical support to clients
- Give respite to caregivers
- Attend training and receive ongoing supervision
Requirements summary:
- Compassionate and willing to listen
- Willing to undergo a background or police records check
- Willing to complete medical forms
- Comfortable commuting to the location
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-10
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | No experience needed |
| Department | Social & community services |
| Travel | air: none |
| Work setting | Client sites, Hospital or clinic, Home |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer none |
| Background checks | criminal record |
| Perks mentioned | Paid training |
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Volunteer Success
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| Open jobs on Jobsy | 24 |
As a Hospice volunteer, the most important gift you bring is yourself…just being there with the client to listen to concerns, fears and feelings.
Location
In-Person
Haliburton, Ontario
When
Opportunity Type
Ongoing - Start Anytime
Schedule
Flexible
About This Opportunity
HHHS is looking for compassionate volunteers who would like to help with our Hospice program both in the community ( Haliburton Highlands) and in the Palliative Care unit at the Haliburton Hospital..
As a Hospice volunteer, the most important gift you bring is yourself…just being there with the client to listen to concerns, fears and feelings, sharing precious time.
You will also provide practical support to clients and respite to caregivers. For someone facing the end of their life it can be “so reassuring to have the guidance and support of someone who will truly listen and help you face the uncomfortableness with more dignity and grace; to treat you as a real person and listen to your hopes and fears”.
Hospice Volunteers often report that the reward for showing up for those who need the support is to experience it as a “humbling and deeply inspiring privilege” and “an incredibly powerful and moving gift of life.”
Our Hospice program offers volunteers extensive training, on-going support and supervision.
A comprehensive online course from HPCO (Hospice Palliative Care Ontario) is available to all of our Hospice volunteers.
For more information on becoming a Hospice Volunteer for HHHS contact 705-457-1392 ext 2927
Volunteer Requirements
Whether you meet these requirements or not, we encourage you to share your interest in us. You may still be a fit for a different opportunity with our organization.
- Willing to undergo a background or police records check
- Willing to complete medical forms
- Comfortable commuting to opportunity location
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