Volunteer Listings

If you can operate a golf cart, you can provide transportation services for visitors and employees around the hospital campus. You’ll take them back and forth from the hospital, Providence Place and the medical building to the parking lots. Qualifications: Must enjoy customer service, have good communication skills and be detailed oriented. You’ll need a valid driver’s license and a good driving record and be willing to take a drug/alcohol test and undergo a driving record check. (The hospital’s automobile insurance will cover volunteer drivers while performing the duties of driving the golf cart).

Serve as a liaison between patients, family, friends and the professional staff. Duties might include assisting emergency department staff to transport patients by wheelchair, helping registration clerks with admission records or running errands for staff and families. Qualifications: Must have excellent communication skills and stay calm during stressful situations. Other requirements are being flexible; mature and a self-starter.

Visit patient floors to pick up menu cards and to assist patients in making menu selections. Qualifications: Must have excellent communications skills, good reading and writing skills and be able to walk distances.

Check in with the charge nurse on duty to see if there are any patients that should not be visited. Review room numbers and patient names on the wall chart to obtain necessary information before proceeding with visits. Make random or assigned visits to patients regarding their healing process. Immediately report any patient needs to the nursing staff or the Patient Representative. Allow a family member or visitor an opportunity to share their thoughts and concerns. Use discretion in the amount of time you spend with a patient. After each patient visit leave the completed patient log at the clinical manager’s office. Also leave a copy in the Hospital Patient Representative’s office. Qualifications: Must Good customer service skills and a friendly personality. Positive attitude and flexibility in determining and meeting the patient’s needs. Use good judgment in dealing with patient issues.

Act as a goodwill ambassador for all visitors and patients at Providence. You’ll handle patient information inquiries and help people with directions to different departments. Other tasks include helping with patient dismissals and delivering flowers and packages to patients. Qualifications: The ability to walk and transport patients by wheelchair and good public relations skills. Self-starters with outgoing personalities do best here.

Assist Director and Coordinator with research for newsletter articles and press releases. Assist in the content creation of departmental brochures, fliers and other communications. Assist in the implementation of community events and marketing projects. Qualifications: Able to communicate with persons of different backgrounds and ages. Able to perform clerical duties such as filing and recording keeping. Comfortable working with computers; knowledge and/or experience with department graphics software) or similar graphic software helpful. Must have an excellent command of the English language, grammar and spelling.

Answer phones, call lights, bring patients water or water chips, stock supplies, keep forms stocked and replenished, assist patients with ordering their food and other office/clerical work as needed and requested. Qualifications: Have excellent communication and phone skills, sense of humor, able to empathize with patients, knowledge of simple office procedures and be able to sit for prolonged periods.

The purpose of this position is to greet and assist patients, visitors, and families by rounding and following up on how one’s stay is going or could improve. Discharged phone calls and follow up on patients who are now home is also part of this position. This is a great position for an individual who wants to make sure a patient/visitor’s stay at the hospital is satisfactory and to follow through until they are in the comfort of their own home.

Escort the Pet Partner teams in waiting rooms and patient care areas for the benefit of patients, visitors and staff.

Qualifications: Friendly. Awareness of safety guidelines.

Want to bring joy and improve lives in your community, all while spending time with your pet? If the answer is yes, then we’re here to get you started and support you along the way! Please call the Pet Partners Program at 425-679-5500 or visit their website at www.mo-kanpetpartners.org to learn how you and your pet can join the certified pet therapy animal teams at Providence.

Provide volunteer patient visiting and/or a listening ear. Read or play games with the Residents when asked to do so. Escort the Residents outside if they are able and desire to do so. Enter into every room with a smile and be conscious of customer service. Create a welcoming spirit for the families and the staff. Qualifications: Able to communicate with persons of different backgrounds and ages. Able to perform clerical duties such as filing and recording keeping. Able to understand graphics on computer relating to patients in recovery.

Assist the receptionist at the front desk in Medical Imaging. Check in patients that come to the Medical Imaging Department. Fax reports to physicians when requested. Provide directions for patients as needed. Release images to patients when requested. Assist patients in the waiting rooms. Answer the telephone and direct calls. Assist the staff with scheduling procedures, scanning orders and other duties upon request. Qualifications: Basic clerical skills, good spelling and computer knowledge. Have good customer service skills and a friendly personality. Must be detail oriented, have good observation and communication skills and work in a diverse environment. Ability to work independently and as a team player with little supervision.

The Registration waiting room receptionist serves as a liaison between recovery room personnel, the physician and the surgery patient’s family by relating information from recovery to the family, and by identifying family members for the physician. Assists the outpatient clerks by greeting patients, and directing them to the registration desk(s). Qualifications: Able to communicate with persons of different backgrounds and ages. Able to perform clerical duties such as filing and recording keeping. Able to understand graphics on computer relating to patients in recovery.

Relate information to surgery patients’ families from recovery and identify family members for physicians. Qualifications: Must be able to communicate with persons of different backgrounds and ages, perform clerical duties such as filing and record-keeping and understand computer information relating to patients in recovery.