End-of-life care (ID: 273061)

A volunteering opportunity by Diakonie-Hospiz Lichtenberg gGmbH

Birdsong, children's laughter, a flock of sheep: the villa of the DiakonieHospiz Lichtenberg is located in the middle of Berlin's Herzberge Landscape Park: opened in 2005, the inpatient hospice offers a place to live for seriously ill, dying people. Supported and accompanied by full-time and voluntary staff, the guests of the hospice and their relatives can spend this precious time together according to their ideas and wishes. Our outpatient hospice work also visits seriously ill people at home in their familiar surroundings or in a nursing home.
The hospice work of the Diakonie-Hospice Lichtenberg aims to help ensure that people are not left to die alone. We base our work on Christian values, but our services are available to all seriously ill and dying people, regardless of their religious or ideological beliefs. We want to support people in living their last years with dignity and self-determination.

We support people during the difficult time of saying goodbye and listen to their fears and worries as well as their hopes and wishes. Volunteering opportunities include: visiting seriously ill people and their relatives at home, assisting guests in the inpatient hospice, helping with housekeeping at the inpatient hospice, making music, doing handicrafts, baking...., sitting vigil in the hospital or nursing home, working at events as part of public relations work, contributing your own personal gifts to accompanying people.

We offer a free and nationally recognized qualification course for the accompaniment of dying people and their relatives, the opportunity to meet and fellowship with others, the opportunity to get involved according to your own interests and talents as well as continuous professional support in the form of qualified guidance, reflection, case discussions, supervision and further training.

- Barrier-free for people with little or no knowledge of German

We wish for you:
You are open to encounters, can get involved with other people, like to share your zest for life with others, enjoy getting to know yourself better and can build trusting relationships.

Services 
- Guidance from specialists
- Thank you parties
- Exchange of experiences
- Reimbursement of costs incurred
- Further training / qualification offers
- Liability insurance
- Free excursions
- Free events
- Regular information
- Taster phase / trial period
- Supervision
- Team meetings
- Accident insurance

- Flexible
- By agreement
- No, not limited in time

- Membership: no 
- Age: at least 18 years 
- Driving license: not required 
- Certificate of good conduct: not required 
- Health certificate: no