Hospice Volunteer Competency Framework: Introducing the document & considerations for its use
Dates:
November 23, 2021
November 26, 2021
Focus:
Aligned with our existing competency frameworks for health care professionals, the volunteer competencies are organized under eight headings, or domains. No matter how you decide to operationalize the competencies in your volunteer program, they are designed to help you better recruit, screen and train hospice volunteers.
The new volunteer competency framework was co-created with 18 representatives of hospice organizations from across BC, and was guided by key provincial and regional hospice palliative care partners and experts.
This session will help you to consider how the document will be of benefit in settings other than hospices, such as long-term care or volunteer–led community groups and organizations that support people effected with serious illness.
Past Sessions
Aligned with our existing competency frameworks for health care professionals, the volunteer competencies are organized under eight headings, or domains. No matter how you decide to operationalize the competencies in your volunteer program, they are designed to help you better recruit, screen and train hospice volunteers.
The new volunteer competency framework was co-created with 18 representatives of hospice organizations from across BC, and was guided by key provincial and regional hospice palliative care partners and experts.
Get a guided tour
Join us for a one-hour session that will introduce you to the volunteer competencies.
This session will use an ECHO format, following the “all teach, all learn” principle, so you’ll have the opportunity to hear from those who helped create the document. As well, this session will help you to consider how the document will be of benefit in settings other than hospices, such as long-term care or volunteer–led community groups and organizations that support people effected with serious illness.
Download your copy of the volunteer competencies now, and for more information on the overall competency framework, and to review the core competencies for other disciplines, visit Competency Framework
bc-cpc.ca/publications/competency-framework
Aligned with our existing competency frameworks for health care professionals, the volunteer competencies are organized under eight headings, or domains. No matter how you decide to operationalize the competencies in your volunteer program, they are designed to help you better recruit, screen and train hospice volunteers.
The new volunteer competency framework was co-created with 18 representatives of hospice organizations from across BC, and was guided by key provincial and regional hospice palliative care partners and experts.
Get a guided tour
Join us for a one-hour session that will introduce you to the volunteer competencies.
This session will use an ECHO format, following the “all teach, all learn” principle, so you’ll have the opportunity to hear from those who helped create the document. As well, this session will help you to consider how the document will be of benefit in settings other than hospices, such as long-term care or volunteer–led community groups and organizations that support people effected with serious illness.
Download your copy of the volunteer competencies now, and for more information on the overall competency framework, and to review the core competencies for other disciplines, visit Competency Framework
bc-cpc.ca/publications/competency-framework
Join Pablita Thomas, Executive Director of the BC Hospice Palliative Care Association and Tina Lowery, Program Manager with the BC Centre for Palliative Care for the hour to discuss and share your experience with the Hospice Volunteer Palliative Competency Framework.
In the summer of 2021, the Provincial Competencies for Hospice Volunteers was released. This document was co-created with a working group representing hospice organizations from across British Columbia with the objective that it could be used as a foundational document throughout the volunteer management cycle when developing your own recruitment, screening, training, and assessment strategies.
The principle of ECHO is “all teach, all learn” and so want to hear from you! We will be reviewing the results of the survey sent out by the BC CPC earlier this summer and will use this data as a jumping off point to the sessions facilitated discussion. You will have an opportunity to hear from other Hospices and learn from their experience with the document and how they have implemented it into their programs.
Target Audience
- Hospices, volunteer programs in support of palliative care on health units, LTC, or treatment facilities (eg BC Cancer)
Key Learning Objectives
By the end of the session participants will:
- Have an increased awareness of the Volunteer Competencies
- Understand that Competencies are a foundation to creating a vibrant, engaged, and effective volunteer program
- Develop strategies as to how they can implement the competencies into their volunteer program
- Strengthen connections and relationships with similar organization and volunteer programs so as to continue to share ideas and expertise
