Volunteer Positions at Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Stanford Hospital & Clinics offers a wide variety of opportunities during regular business hours, evenings, and weekends. Please review the many options the hospital offers in our Guest Services Department and Administrative Departments. **Availability of positions depends upon need.**
Guest Services
Provide support, assistance, and hospitality to our patients, their family members, and our staff. Create a warm and altruistic environment for the Stanford Hospital & Clinics community. Whatever our guests need, our volunteers
respond as quickly as possible, and always with a smile! No request is too large for our staff to address, or too small for our patients to mention.
- Ambulatory Surgery Center: Provide patient-centered care, greet patients and their families, answer questions, offer directions, and escort family members to their destinations.
- Art for Health: Development of creative projects under the supervision of the Art for Health Coordinator, some administrative functions and or functional tasks depending on the program’s needs. Art therapy experience required.
- 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.
- Women's Cancer Center Navigation: Assist patients with directions and resources, guide patients to appointments, visit with patients, and provide hospitality throughout the Women's Cancer Center, where an atmosphere of women, warmth, and wellness come together to strengthen, educate and nurture. Female volunteers preferred.
- Cath Angio Pre/Post Recovery Unit: Assist physicians and nursing staff in locating families and friends of patients, offer emotional support, and serve office staff as needed.
- Emergency Department: Greet and support patients and family members. Oversee waiting area, perform errands, stock shelves, and occasionally assist patients. (One year commitment)
- Food Services: Visit patients throughout the hospital and administer satisfaction surveys, analyze data, and prepare nutrient analysis for food items.
- Front Information Desk Navigator: Greet patients and their family members as they enter the hospital, 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.
- Back Entrance Information Desk: same tasks and responsibilities as Front Information Desk.
- 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.
- Radiology: Greet and escort patients, assist staff with administrative duties, and be a liaison between the medical staff and friends and family.
- Rehabilitation Services: Support the Physical and Occupational Therapists and Speech-Language Pathologists as they treat patients. (Full until Fall 2012)
- 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 Directives: Help patients create their advance 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.
- Surgical Admitting Unit: Address each patient as they check in, keep track of patients waiting for surgery, talk with resource nurse and keep patients informed about anticipated wait times, and keep staff informed of any patient’s questions or concerns.
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.