Patient/Family Centred Roles |
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These roles work directly with patients and their families often in the patient’s own home. | |
Role | Description |
Beauty Therapy | Providing beauty treatments to patients – usually in their own home. You need to have a formal qualification |
Bereavement | Working with the families of recently bereaved |
Biography | Working with patients to record their life stories, resulting in the production and printing of their biographies |
Complementary Therapies | Providing complementary therapies to patients – usually in their own home. You need to have a formal qualification |
Counselling | Working with patients and their family members. You need a formal qualification |
Driving | Driving patients to appointments, activities or events. You need to have your own car. |
Equipment Delivery | Working in a team to deliver, set up or collect medical equipment (including beds and lazyboys) to patients own homes. You need to be physically fit and able to drive |
Gardening | Providing gardening services to patients |
Hairdressing | Providing hairdressing services to patients – usually in their own home. You need to have a formal qualification |
Handyman | Providing handyman services to patients |
Legal/Financial Advice | Providing legal and financial advice to patients and their families |
Therapeutic Massage | Providing therapeutic massage services to patients. This is a combination of patients own home and at Hospice House You need to have a formal qualification |
Activity Day Stay Volunteer | Working with a team of other volunteers and an activities coordinator provide day stay activity programmes for patients. Based at Hospice House |
Podiatry | Providing podiatry treatments/services to patients. You need to have a formal qualification |
Patient Visiting | Visiting patients in their own home to provide respite cover for family members as well as visitor variety for patients. Own transport is essential |
Support services | This could include a variety of things such as dog walking, helping sort out a patients house, odd tasks |