Volunteer Opportunities at Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Stanford Hospital & Clinics offers a wide variety of opportunities during regular business hours, evenings, and weekends. Please review the sample list of volunteer opportunities. *Volunteers are placed in areas of highest need.*
Volunteers provide support, assistance, and hospitality to our patients, their family members, and our staff. Whatever our guests need, our volunteers
respond as quickly as possible and with a smile!
- Blake Wilbur Clinic: Assist patients with directions to their appointments, escort patients and family members to their destinations, help in the coordination of patient’s transportation, and assist with errands when requested.
- Cancer Center Navigation: Assist patients, families, and caregivers with directions and resources, guide patients to appointments, visit with patients, and provide hospitality throughout the Cancer Center.
- Information Desk Navigator: Greet patients and their family members, assist patients with directions to their appointments, escort patients and family members to their destinations, help in the coordination of patient’s transportation, and assist with errands when requested.
- Health Library: Stanford Health Library provides scientifically-based medical information to help people make informed decisions about their health and health care. All of our services are free. Volunteers provide technical assistance in the preparation of library materials to working with patrons as they search for answers.
- Music for Healing: Assist with setting up for bi-weekly concerts in the hospital atrium and escort ambulatory patients to the venue.
- CD Program: Provide equipment which includes music and/or books-on-tape to patients throughout the hospital.
- Nursing Units: Provide assistance for the medical staff by answering phones, filing, stocking shelves, giving amenities, and occasionally assisting patients.
- On Call Volunteer: Volunteers will be called on an as-needed-basis by any unit or department to complete one or several miscellaneous tasks.
- Patient Admitting: Escort patients and family members from admitting to their destinations, provide information, and arrange for wheelchair transport.
- Patient Waiting Areas: Assist families with information, resources, and escort family members to their destination.
- Smoking Cessation Program: Encourage patients to quit smoking, follow up with patients who join our program, and track patient information through database. One year commitment and RN background is highly preferred.
- Spiritual Care: Assist the staff in providing spiritual care and support. Volunteers are interfaith and include members from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh traditions.
- Advance Care Directives: Help patients create their advance care directives.
- No One Dies Alone: Under the supervision of the nursing and the Spiritual Care staff, volunteers serve as “compassionate companions” by sitting with patients who are dying and alone. Volunteers need to be able to interact in a non-judgmental manner with persons of all faiths. Volunteers need to have volunteered at the hospital in some other capacity for 6 months or more.
- Stanford Medical Outpatient Center (Redwood City): Guide patients to all areas within the Outpatient Center, help the front desk to answer phones and distribute materials, act as a liaison between clinical staff and family members, and provide hospitality as needed.
Administrative/Clerical
- Farewell to Falls: Farewell to Falls is a program which works with older adults to help reduce falls. Volunteers will connect with subscribers by making weekly phone calls, collecting data and providing program recommendations.
- Lifeline: Lifeline enables those who are elderly, medically vulnerable or physically limited to continue to live independently in their own homes. Volunteers will answer phones and take messages, provide information about the service, and answer subscriber’s questions.
- Trauma Services: Assemble packets, collate forms, and complete various projects as needed.