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At Hospice of South Texas, volunteers are an essential part of our team. Whether providing companionship to patients or helping behind the scenes, our volunteers bring comfort and support to patients and families during difficult times. We offer comprehensive training to prepare you for a rewarding experience in hospice care.
Volunteering with Hospice of South Texas offers a unique opportunity to provide support during the end-of-life journey. Our volunteers offer comfort and companionship to patients, relief to caregivers, and assistance with office work or fundraising. Whether you prefer to work directly with patients or behind the scenes, your time and compassion can make a meaningful difference. Our training program ensures that you are fully prepared to contribute in any capacity you choose, making your volunteer experience deeply fulfilling.
Hospice volunteers play a crucial role in providing compassionate care and support to our patients and their families.
Offer companionship and comfort to patients during their hospice journey, providing emotional and practical assistance.
Provide much-needed breaks to caregivers, offering peace of mind while attending to patient needs.
Help with office work, fundraising, or special projects to support our organization behind the scenes.
Join our team of volunteers and help make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients and their families. Contact us today to learn more about volunteer opportunities and how you can get involved.
You matter because you are. You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die. – Dame Cicely Saunders, M.D. Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement
This quote expresses the true meaning of hospice. We at Hospice of South Texas cannot hope to carry out this philosophy without the valuable contributions of dedicated hospice volunteers.
As a hospice volunteer, you will be in a unique position to provide an extra dimension of timely and comforting support (directly or indirectly) to dying patients and their families and/or to walk beside family members in their grief. By finding it in your heart to make this wonderful contribution during the part of life called dying, you are honoring life itself and helping to make the loving part of hospice care visible and tangible.
Hospice of South Texas offers varied opportunities for you to volunteer your time and talents. Whether you become involved in direct patient companionship, bereavement support, or one of the many indirect support services, you will be an important and valued part of our organization and the services we provide.
Working as a hospice team member, you will help patients and caregivers to maintain a sense of normalcy and quality of life. Comforting activities may include: assisting with life review, reading to the patient, giving foot, back and hand rubs, running errands, offering ‘time-out’ for caregivers, praying (the Rosary, for example) when asked, feeding patients in the Nursing Home (must be inserviced), playing dominoes or cards, helping with letter writing, and more.
You may provide assistance with special needs of patients and families by making minor home repairs, wheelchair ramp construction, light sewing, barbering & hair styling (must be licensed), running errands (such as grocery shopping), assisting in the office with gifts for patients, knitting or crocheting prayer shawls for patients, massage therapy (must be registered), picking up and sorting food boxes from the food bank, delivering food boxes, fans, supplies (not drugs), flowers, meals, gift baskets to patients’ homes, doing occasional yard work, witnessing the signing of documents, providing one time relief for caregivers, singing to patients, and more.
You may befriend the survivors and offer support to them in the months following the death of their loved ones. From attending the funeral to occasional cards, phone visits, and planned outings, you’ll walk beside them, helping to bring meaning back into their lives. You’ll learn to listen to their pain and assure them that their feelings are normal and necessary in the grief process. You may send mailings of materials on grief, help with our Services of Remembrance and grief support workshops, encourage the bereaved to attend, and more.
These activities are for those of you who prefer to help the patients and families on Hospice of South Texas without direct contact with patients. You might give presentations on hospice topics, or help with agency mailings, filing, data entry, receptionist duties, raising funds, doing handy man tasks in the offices, and more, promoting and actively participating in support of Hospice of South Texas.
These volunteers help with mailings, filing, data entry, booklet, packet, and manual assembling, handyman office tasks and much more.
Hospice of South Texas provides compassionate end-of-life care, enhancing quality of life for patients and their families across the region.