Junior Volunteer Qualifications

The junior volunteer status is offered to students aged 14 to 17 years who wish to volunteer for Hospice of Michigan.

Responsibilities may include:
• Community outreach, events and other non-patient care activities
• Direct patient care activities - an adult volunteer of HOM staff member will supervise individual or multiple junior volunteers while fulfilling assignments
  • such as visiting HOM patients,
  • reading to patients
  • engaging HOM patients in arts or craft activities
• Maintains confidentiality
• Provides required documentation
• Attends educational/support meetings whenever possible
• Facilitates community awareness and support of HOM
• Junior volunteers may not provide transportation for the patient or family caregiver

Qualifications:
• Age 14-17 years
• Parental consent for TB testing must be completed and on file prior to administration of TB test for patient contact junior volunteers
• Demonstrates good interpersonal communication skills
• Successful completion of basic HOM volunteer training (4 hours) or patient services volunteer training (12 hours)
• When junior volunteers reach the age of 18 and have completed the 12 hour HOM Patient & family Services Volunteer Training, they will have adult volunteer status.

This description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that will be required of the position that will be given this title, and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position will be. It is not intended to limit, or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct or control the work of junior volunteers under his/her supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.