TRI-CITY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
We have something for every talent and interest. Please review the options below to learn more about each of Tri-City Hospital Auxiliary Volunteer positions. The volunteer staff will work with you to find your best fit. Our goal is to match your interests, skills and time available with the needs of the hospital. Bilingual Volunteers are always a plus in any department.
FIND THE DEPARTMENT THAT BEST FITS YOU
Be an Auxiliary insider, helping keep the organization humming, supporting other volunteers along the way.
CLERICAL (AUXILIARY OFFICE)
Help keep things running smoothly.
- Handle routine office work (filing, data entry, mailings)
- Answer telephone and direct caller to appropriate resource
- Operate various office equipment (fax, computer, copy machine, etc.)
- Knowledge of basic computer skills and e-mail is required
- Hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
BE THE PUBLIC FACE OF THE AUXILIARY AS PART OF THE TEAM THAT MEETS AND
HELPS FAMILY AND VISITORS.
COURTESY SHUTTLE
Welcome all, shuttling visitors from the parking lots to the hospital
- Drive a 5-passenger electric shuttle around hospital parking lot offering rides
- Communicate with the Security Team via two-way radio
- Valid California Driver’s License and insurance required
- Hours are Monday – Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, Saturday & Sunday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
- Suitable for individuals looking for non-weekday opportunities.
INFORMATION DESK
That all important first point of contact for so many Tri-City Medical Center visitors.
- Welcome all visitors and patients to Tri-City Medical Center
- Assist family and friends locate patients’ rooms
- Give visitor badges, room number and directions
- Inform those asking about workshops and meetings held at TCMC
- Receive and deliver flowers, mail and gifts
- Deliver anyone, by wheelchair, needing assistant to their destination
- Hours are Monday – Friday 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm and Sunday 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Suitable for individuals looking for non-weekday opportunities.
REGISTRATION
Help guide incoming patients through a sometimes-confusing process.
- Greet patients warmly as they arrive
- Assist patients signing into the hospital
- Submit paperwork to Registrar employees
- Answer phone and direct Escorts to various locations
- Interact with patients in waiting room
- Work closely with Escort Volunteers
- Hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
GIFT SHOP
Source of much of the Auxiliary’s funding, the Gift Shop is a wonderful place to interact with visitors and staff alike.
- Be knowledgeable of basic customer service and sales skills
- Assist customers, patients and employees with purchases
- Maintain, replenish stock and clean shop
- Must be able to use a cash register, process credit card compliance and balance cash fund at end of each shift.
- Hours are Monday – Friday, 9:00 am to 7:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.- 2:30 p.m.
- Suitable for individuals looking for non-weekday opportunities.
JOIN THE BEATING HEART OF THE AUXILIARY ON ONE OF THE MANY TEAMS WHO REGULARLY SERVE AND COMFORT PATIENTS AND FAMILY DURING THEIR STAY AT TRI-CITY MEDICAL CENTER.
PATIENT ESCORT SERVICE
Be a guide as patients transition to their next stop within the hospital.
- Requires good walking skills
- Escort patients to designated departments after Registration
- Interact with patients in the Registration waiting room
- Assist with discharge from patient rooms to front of hospital as needed
- Interact with Employees in Registration Department
- Work closely with Registration volunteers
- Hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU)
Be a comforting force for friends and families at a most difficult time.
- Screen and assist visitors and staff into the unit
- Maintain records of arrivals and transfers of ICU patients
- Interact with patients and family, supporting them during a stressful time
- Have a cheerful attitude, ready smile, and good listening ability
- Spanish is helpful but not mandatory
- Hours are seven days per week, including holidays, from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm divided into four-hour shifts
- Suitable for individuals looking for non-weekday opportunities.
SURGERY
Support patients and family during this stressful time.
- Escort patients and families
- Store personal effects, stock warmer blankets, pick up and deliver paperwork
- Serve food and drinks
- Make PreOp kits for surgery
- Discharge patients in wheelchairs
- Hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm.
- Suitable for individuals looking for non-weekday opportunities.
WORK BEHIND THE SCENES DOING VALUABLE WORK IN AN INTERESTING SETTING.
WORKSHOP
Put those special talents and hobbies to great use.
- Make stuffed toys for children in Registration and Emergency Departments
- Make tray favors for patients’ dinner trays
- Make “Lovie Dolls,” a bonding blanket for baby, mommy, and daddy, and various pillowcases for the NICU Department
- Make Christmas stockings for Labor and deliver in mid-December
- Make a single white stocking, blanket, and cap for the first baby born in the New Year
- Special sewing skills may be needed depending on the activity selected
- Meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month from 8:00 am – noon.