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024 7696 5131 or 07500 782 658
- Email address
- uhc-tr.compassionatecommunties@nhs.net
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- Further information
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Compassionate Communities is a local initiative which aims to facilitate support for the dying and bereaved, people living with long term health conditions and people who are socially isolated from within the community itself.
Working in partnership with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust and Myton Hospice, UHCW NHS Trust has recruited volunteers to provide the Compassionate Communities service.
Service to provide:
- support for clients in the last year of life and their carers
- support for clients in the last days of life and their carers
- support for the bereaved relatives after their loved one has died
- support for people living with a long term health condition
- support for people who are socially isolated
Volunteers provide comfort and support to the client, family or carer at their time of need by:
- being present within the client’s home in a supportive non-medical role.
- listening to their needs and feelings.
- showing understanding and compassion appropriate to individual needs.
- giving guidance and support by signposting them to the appropriate professional.
- foster an appropriate relationship that enables support to be given before the person dies but also enables bereavement support to be offered to families including signposting to UHCW’s Bereavement Point groups.
Referrals are received from Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust Palliative Care Team, UHCW NHS Trust Palliative Care Team and Myton Hospice only.
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