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Help more folks receive hospice care as a Marketing warehouse assistant!
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When: M, Tues, W or Fri between the hours of 9am and 4:30pm – ideally 1-3 hours/week commitment, although some weeks you may not be needed for long.
Volunteer needed to help our marketers reach more folks to provide amazing hospice care! A volunteer is requested to help receive, send and manage shipments of marketing materials. Volunteer must be physically capable of lifting up to 45 lbs, and occasionally may need to utilize a ladder to store and retrieve items. (ladder height will not exceed 6 feet)
Overview: You will work out of our Chicago office location once a week (3234 S Martin Luther King Drive) You will be in communication with our marketing specialist who will let you know of any shipments that may have recently come in or any items that need to be shipped out. When items are received, you will verify quantity, label boxes, and organize the items for storage. A typical shipment may be 4 - 15 boxes. When items need to be shipped out, you will ensure items and packages are separated and properly boxed, then utilize our UPS online account to create shipping labels and arrange pickup.
You will also be counted on to monitor inventory and alert our marketing specialist of any items that may be running low.
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Thank you so much for your interest in volunteering with Unity Hospice! Our volunteers do incredible work to help our patients and families navigate the end-of-life journey with the care and support they need. From relieving a caregiver so they can take a much-needed break or helping to care for patient pets – walking the dog or caring for the cat, to spending time with patients reading, singing, talking, or listening, to helping with behind the scenes work in our office - volunteers play an essential role in our team and help us go above and beyond with our clients. We serve our patients wherever they call home, be it their own home, the home of a relative, or a nursing, assisted or independent living facility. Patient Support volunteers will need to be willing to travel to the sites where patients live, as providing comfort in the location of their choice is part of the hospice model. Our administrative volunteers will primarily work out of our Chicago office at 3232 S King Dr.
We don’t require our volunteers to have any experience with hospice or healthcare – all it takes to be a good hospice volunteer is empathy, kindness, reliability and good listening skills. We will train our volunteers to work through any issues they may encounter. In order to volunteer, an applicant must be willing to get a tb test and drug test for drugs not legal in IL, as well as a background check that requires fingerprinting (all of which we will pay for). Volunteers must complete our online and in-person training and be willing to commit for at least a year to working with Unity (to give our patients consistency and justify the costs of onboarding).
If joining Unity interests you and you’d like to move forward as a volunteer, please complete this Volunteer Application, and email us a few days/times that you could meet up for an interview (Ideally between 9 and 5, M-F, although we can occasionally accommodate if it needs to be outside those hours, or if it needs to be a virtual meeting rather than in person).
Thanks again, and we look forward to hearing from you!
Vera Junge (she/her)
Volunteer Coordinator - Unity Hospice & Palliative Care
Chicago: 3234 S. Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60616
Skokie (Corporate Office): 4101 Main St. Skokie, IL 60076
Ph: 312.597.1510 Email: vjunge@unityhospice.com
