Community Care Fellow- Joseph's House

Joseph’s House provides residential medical respite support to men and women who are formerly homeless and living with HIV/AIDs or terminal cancer. The Lutheran Volunteer Corps member will serve as a year-long volunteer. Integrating into the many branches of our work, the Member will come to understand the wide range of activities to support residents and our extended family of former residents. The Member will provide residents with companionship, which could mean sharing a meal together, planning individual and group activities, preparing residents for greater independence, or simply taking the time to be in conversation with residents about their lives and your own. The Member will help to enhance residents’ (and former residents’) quality of life by driving and accompanying them to appointments, picking up medications, assisting with grocery shopping and cooking house meals, and performing ongoing housekeeping duties. The Member will also assist the nursing staff with residents’ personal care and our social worker with residents' psychosocial needs.

1) Assisting the nursing staff with residents’ personal care, including direct care duties such as administering medications, bathing, and repositioning bed bound residents.
2) Providing residents and community members with companionship, such as sharing a meal together, planning individual and group activities, sitting vigil with a person who is coming to the end of their life, or simply taking the time to be in conversation with residents about their lives.
3) Enhancing residents’ and community members’ quality of life by accompanying them to medical appointments, picking up medications, and assisting with grocery shopping.
4) Supporting Joseph’s House through cooking house meals and performing ongoing housekeeping duties.
5) Working with the Joseph’s House social worker on a variety of case management tasks, including assisting individuals who have regained their health to obtain food stamps, getting photo identification, connecting to mental health agencies, and finding housing.