Education:
- High School diploma preferred but not required
Experience:
- Prior general office experience preferred but not required
- Prior experience providing excellent supportive care preferred but not required
Special Skills:
- Pleasant phone manner and voice
- Willing to accept a variety of office tasks
- Emotionally mature and dependable
- Understands and supports the hospice philosophy
- Completes the hospice orientation program
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills and strong interpersonal skills
- Demonstrates being dependable, cooperative, honest, empathetic, and non judgmental
- Active listener and willing to work under supervision
- Has not had a significant loss within the past year and is able to comfortably discuss prior losses, especially deaths of loved ones
- Comfortable interacting with individuals who are terminally ill or emotionally distraught
Other
- Has access to adequate transportation to perform volunteer functions.
