Welcome to Volunteer Services for the Saskatoon City Hospital (SCH) and St. Paul's Hospital (SPH)! Thank you for your interest in volunteering.
Available vacancies are limited to the programs shown below. Please take a look at the volunteer opportunities that we are currently recruiting for and choose an option that is right for you. All applications must include the name of the opportunity being applied for.
We appreciate your willingness to support the health of your community!
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Volunteer Opportunities
Saskatoon City Hospital - Client Companion Volunteer
The goal of the Client Companion volunteer is to help patients feel welcome, maintain quality of life, and reduce some of the negative effects of being in hospital. Client Companions offer socialization, conversation and non-medical supports.
Volunteers would interact one on one with patients in their room or in small groups of 2-4 in common areas.
Interactions might include card games, board games, conversation, current events, creative activities, coloring pictures, doing word puzzles, reading, music, going for "walks" in wheelchairs on or off the unit.
Shift times:
One 2-hour shift on any day, Monday to Friday, between 2:00–4:00 PM
Applicants must have strong communication skills and be able to work independently with minimal supervision. Minimum age 18 years.
Saskatoon City Hospital - Registration Volunteer
Who Can Volunteer:
- Must be 16 years of age or older
About the Role:
As a Registration Associate volunteer, you help patients feel welcome and reduce any apprehension they may experience when arriving for appointments or admissions. Your support ensures a smooth and efficient registration process. This includes:
- Welcoming and directing patients registering for inpatient or outpatient appointments or admissions
- Assisting patients with registration as needed
- Helping maintain an orderly and efficient registration environment
- Providing general support to staff and patients to ensure a positive registration experience
Shift Times
Thursday: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Skills & Qualities Needed:
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Friendly, welcoming, and approachable manner
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Saskatoon City Hospital - Book Cart Volunteer
The Book Cart Associate provides friendly and personalized service to patients in an acute care setting by offering a selection of books, magazines, and other reading materials. The volunteer transports the book cart from Volunteer Services to various hospital units and visits patient rooms to offer reading materials based on individual interests and preferences.
This role provides patients who may be unable to leave their rooms with convenient access to reading materials and an opportunity for positive social interaction. The Book Cart Associate helps bring comfort, companionship, and enjoyment to patients during their hospital stay.
Shift Details
- Approximately 1.5 hours per week
- Tuesday or Friday afternoon
- Preferred shift time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- Shift times may be negotiable based on operational needs
Physical Requirements
- Ability to walk longer distances throughout the hospital
- Ability to safely push a book cart
- Ability to navigate hospital hallways and patient care areas
Saskatoon City Hospital - Injury Survivor Volunteer Presenter – P.A.R.T.Y. Program
Volunteers support the P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth) Program by sharing their personal injury and recovery experience with high school students. Presenters help youth understand the real-life impact of injuries and encourage safer choices and injury prevention.
Volunteers will:
- Share their personal experience of injury, treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery
- Deliver a structured 30–60 minute presentation to groups of approximately 100–150 high school students
- Participate in a question-and-answer session with students
- Share how the injury affected daily life, independence, relationships, school, work, and community participation
- Discuss injury prevention and safety
- Work with program staff to prepare and review presentation materials
- Use a microphone, presentation clicker, or other basic presentation equipment when required
- Follow program guidelines and maintain appropriate boundaries and confidentiality
- Participate in a brief debrief with program staff following presentations
Training and support are provided, including orientation to the P.A.R.T.Y. Program, presentation coaching, preparation support, and on-site staff support during presentations.
The ideal volunteer is comfortable speaking in front of high school students, able to share their experience in a clear and appropriate way, and emotionally ready to discuss their injury and recovery journey in a public setting. Volunteers should be comfortable answering questions, accepting guidance from program staff, and maintaining professionalism during presentations.
Referral Criteria
At this time, only candidates referred by Sask Central Acquired Brain Injury Education & Prevention are invited to apply.
Volunteer Requirements: Volunteers should be a minimum of two years post-injury, with traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury experience preferred. Emotional and physical readiness to share a personal story is essential.
Time commitment: Occasional, up to six presentations per year. Each presentation requires a maximum of approximately two hours, including preparation and presentation time.
Location: Various high schools in Saskatoon and surrounding area
Must be 18 years of age or older.
Program: P.A.R.T.Y. Program – Sask Central Acquired Brain Injury Services
St. Paul's Hospital - Hospitality Volunteer
Did you know that the first European Hospitals were created as a way to welcome the stranger? About the Role:
The Hospitality Volunteer is a qualified adult volunteer who enjoys meeting the public. Hospitality Volunteers are a friendly, welcoming face and in most cases, the first point of contact for new patients and visitors to St. Paul's Hospital.
Volunteers in this role should have excellent customer service skills and a warm, friendly helpful personality. Volunteers should be able to engage in friendly conversation, possess good listening skills, and display sensitivity to the needs of people from all social and ethnic backgrounds. This position will involve 2-3 hours of walking.
Weekly Commitment: We ask volunteers to commit to a minimum of one shift per week. Shifts are 3 hours in length
Position Commitment: We ask volunteers to commit to volunteering for a minimum of 6 months or 40 volunteer hours.
Shifts times available:
Monday - Friday
8:00 am - 11:00 am
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
St. Paul's Hospital - Book Cart Volunteer
Who Can Volunteer:
Must be 16 years or older.
About The Role:
A Book Cart volunteer provides friendly, personalized library services to acute care patients. Books, magazines, etc., are transported from the library to various hospital units via a book cart.
The Book Cart offers access to reading materials to patients who cannot leave their rooms.
It is an opportunity for volunteers to have patient contact and help bring a little comfort to their day.
This role will involve walking throughout the hospital and some behind the scenes tasks. Volunteers will not enter contact precaution rooms.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to walk longer distances throughout the hospital
- Ability to push a cart
- Ability to navigate hospital hallways and patient care areas
Weekly Commitment: We ask volunteers to commit to a minimum of one shift per week.
Position Commitment: We ask volunteers to commit to volunteering for a minimum of 6 months or 40 hours
St. Paul's Hospital - Gift Shop Volunteer
About the Role:
St. Paul's Hospital Gift Shop is looking for outgoing, reliable, friendly volunteers with excellent communication and customer service skills.
Gift Shop Volunteers contribute to a facility’s healing culture and provide a service to patients, staff and the public in order to raise funds to purchase equipment.
Qualifications:
- Provide excellent customer service to visitors and staff.
- Knowledge of Canadian currency
- Possesses excellent communication skills.
- Receptive and accepting of diverse population.
- Sensitive to the needs of all.
- Sensitive to cultural and financial differences and age ranges of visitors.
- Must observe confidentiality of patients.
- Adequate conversational English is required in order that the individual be able to take direction, understand how to complete job tasks, communicate adequately with visitors and co-workers as necessary, understand and follow safety guidelines as well as hospital and department policies.
Volunteers must complete screening requirements as well as orientation and training for any SHA Volunteer role.
Weekly Commitment: We ask volunteers to commit to a minimum of one shift per week. Shifts are typically 3 hours in length with some flexibility depending on the volunteers' availability.
Position Commitment: We ask volunteers to commit to volunteering for a minimum of 6 months or 40 volunteer hours in a year.
Basic lottery course is required preferably prior to starting in the Gift Shop or at minimum within 1 month commencement. This is a SLGA mandatory requirement.
Direct Supervision by Manager of Gift Shop however, volunteer must obtain competency to work independently & alone for short periods of time.
Please check out the FAQ's for more information on volunteering
Meals on Wheels Associate
Who Can Volunteer
Must have your own vehicle and a valid Driver's License
About The Role:
Various routes available throughout the city. Shift times are Monday - Friday delivered over the lunch hours (11:00-1:00). We are asking for a minimum of 1 shift a week for up to 6 months.
Meals on Wheels Volunteers deliver nutritious meals to clients assessed as needing support with nutrition.
What you will gain:
Personal accomplishment, develop and enhance communication skills, learn new job skills & obtain a work routine, being involved & giving back to community.
Volunteers pick up meals at given time from the outlet and delivers to client in their home.
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