Hospice of the Western Reserve Seeks Volunteer Clinicians

Hospice of the Western Reserve is seeking volunteer nurses and clinicians to assist in a variety of roles at Ames Family Hospice House in Westlake, at its West Campus office located at  22730 Fairview Center Drive, Fairview Park, and its Lorain County  Office, 2173 N. Ridge Road E., Suite H, Lorain.

Volunteer nurse opportunities include administering, creating and teaching classes on medically based topics and providing fit testing for N-95 masks.

Volunteer nurses interested in providing direct patient care are also needed and will receive additional training to assist with bathing, feeding, providing Comfort Touch, offering cardiopulmonary phone support, serving as end-of-life doulas and more. Nurses with an active license can also be trained to teach hands on care, feeding, and Comfort Touch classes to volunteers.  Contact the Volunteer Office at 216.255.9090 or email volunteering@hospicewr.org.

Volunteer nurses, nursing assistants, medical technicians, phlebotomists, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, doctors and other licensed or certified clinicians are also needed to run Rapid COVID-19 staff testing clinics at HWR sites.

At the weekday clinics, HWR staff members obtain their own specimens. The volunteer clinicians run and read the tests and document the results. Testing takes place at socially distanced HWR sites; masks are worn. Volunteer clinicians may sign up for two- or four-hour blocks of time using SignUp Genius. Current and up-to-date licenses/certifications and viewing of a training video are required. Contact the Volunteer Office at 216.255.9090 or email volunteering@hospicewr.org.

Hospice of the Western Reserve also offers a variety of paid staff positions. To view and apply for paid clinical staff positions, visit hospicewr.org/careers.