Spiritual Care Volunteers provide emotional and spiritual support to guests at the Family House. Coming from a variety of faith traditions and spiritual backgrounds, these volunteers provide counseling, comfort, and a listening presence to patients and caregivers who are facing illness and health crises.
Responsibilities:
- Listen to guests' stories.
- Respond to requests for individual and group prayer.
- Consider creative ways to offer additional spiritual support through worship opportunities and meaningful rituals.
- Facilitate connections with hospital chaplains as well as faith leaders from guests' home communities.
- Contribute resources and materials to the Family House's chapel for spiritual support.
- Pray regularly for the prayer requests that are recorded in the prayer journal in the Family House's chapel.
- Provide a caring presence to people of all faiths and people of no faith.
Spiritual Care Volunteers come to the Family House for 2-hour shifts, 5:00-7:00pm, Sunday-Thursday. The Family House is at its busiest during the evenings, when caregivers and patients are often winding down after spending their days at local hospitals. Any spiritual care needs beyond these evening hours are directed to on-call chaplains at the local hospitals.
Spiritual Care Volunteers report to the Volunteer & Community Outreach Manager.
Qualifications and Requirements:
To be considered as a Spiritual Care Volunteer, applicants must:
- Be at least 21 years old.
- Have completed at least one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) or equivalent.
- Complete a Family House volunteer profile and volunteer application.
- Pass a background check.
- Complete an in-person interview.
- Complete volunteer orientation.
- Adhere to the Family House's volunteer policies, including our confidentiality agreement.
- Commit not to proselytize.
- Be approved by the Volunteer & Community Outreach Manager.
Interested in applying? Contact Lindley Curtis, Volunteer & Community Outreach Manager, at Lindley.Curtis@familyhousews.org or 336-569-8339 for an application.
Once approved, Spiritual Care Volunteers may register directly through the volunteer management system for the days/shifts that are convenient with their schedules. Some Spiritual Care Volunteers may commit to coming once a week, others to coming every other week, and others to coming once a month or as their schedules permit. Spiritual care volunteers may consider coming for two nights in a row.
