Job Title: Volunteer Hospital Sitter

Location: Belleville, MI

Department: Administrative

Job purpose

Help make the difference in the life of a child in foster care by providing continuous observation and surveillance of foster youth who are at the hospital.

Guiding Harbor is a private, non-profit that provides services to children in foster care and their families. The ideal candidate will have a passion for working with people and understand the challenges associated with staff who work with those impacted by the foster care system. 

Duties and responsibilities

• Continuous observation of foster youth who are at the hospital.
• Summons the nursing staff if the patient requires assistance, becomes dysregulated or in need of nursing intervention
• Offer support to the youth 
• Must maintain confidentiality, and follow other related agency policies
• Contact On-Call staff to report status changes

Skills and Qualifications

• Must be able to maintain professionalism and self-control in difficult or stressful conditions.
• Must display interpersonal skills necessary to effectively communicate with foster youth and, nursing staff and case workers.
• Must have the ability to follow instructions and record information. 
• Sit for long periods of time and remain without distraction from personal business or other diversions. 
• Concentrate and pay close attention to details for over 90% of the time.
• Able to work in an area with potential exposure to infectious agents and/or contaminants.

Working conditions

• Must have reliable transportation to and from volunteer location.

Physical requirements

• This position requires long periods of sitting.
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 5 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. 
• May be exposed to hazardous materials found in a home or general office environment.