Also called: Volunteer Services Coordinator (Hospice)
Recruits, trains, and schedules the volunteers who visit hospice patients.
Interviews new volunteers, runs training on sitting with the dying, matches a retired musician with a patient who loves jazz, and tracks Medicare-required volunteer hours.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's often preferred; social services or volunteer management experience.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Social Work, Gerontology.
Growing about average. Steady.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Scheduling and Medicare hour tracking automate; recruiting, training and matching volunteers with patients stays human.
Classes: Psychology, Business, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-9151.
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