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Prairie Hospice provides client centered, non-medical care delivered by volunteers for Saskatoon residents and their families who are facing advanced illness, death and bereavement.
Accountable to the Executive Director, the Volunteer Coordinator oversees volunteer selection, training, and engagement, client intake. Oversees implementation of programming and participates in program development. Promotes positive relationships with volunteers and staff. Cultivates relationships with related professionals, individuals and community groups who may be involved in client services and/or hospice advocacy.
Working as a team, our two Coordinators enjoy the challenges and the rewards of providing supportive services to terminally ill clients and their families, training and supporting volunteers, educational opportunities and a degree of schedule flexibility.
Qualifications:
Sound knowledge of end-of-life issues.
Post-secondary education in human services, nursing, or social work.
Demonstrates ability to learn new skills, show initiative, function with considerable self-reliance, and to work as part of a team.
Demonstrates ability to use sound judgement in problem solving and decision-making.
Ability to develop, evaluate and modify programming, policy and procedures
Adult learning knowledge and communication skills to transfer knowledge
Ability to communicate with and maintain an effective working relationship with clients from diverse social, economic and cultural backgrounds
Ability to competently use computers/software applications as required.
Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated leadership success.
Ability to work flexible hours.
Ability to drive and provide own vehicle.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence
- Travel expenses not paid by employer
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
Additional Skills
- Administrative and office activities
- Supervise staff, trainees or volunteers
- Research techniques
Type of Community or Social Service
- Palliative care
- Education or training
- Volunteer coordination
- Bereavement issues
Specific Skills
- Appraise clients' needs or eligibility for specific services
- Develop, coordinate and implement the delivery of specific services within the community
- Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
- Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
- Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs
- Screen, recruit and train volunteers and support staff
Work Setting
- Community or neighbourhood centre
Ability to Supervise
- More than 20 people
- Working groups
Work Location Information
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Urban area
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
Target Groups or Clients
- Adolescents
- Seniors
- Male
- Female
- Families
- Children
- Aboriginal groups
- Culturally diverse groups
- Persons who are deaf/hard of hearing
- Persons who are blind/visually impaired
- Persons with intellectual disabilities
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Persons with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
- Persons with learning disabilities