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 - Hospitality Volunteer
Who Can Volunteer:
- Must be 16 years of age or older
About the Role:
As a Hospitality Associate volunteer, you provide valuable support to patients and visitors, helping them navigate the hospital with a welcoming smile and wayfinding assistance. Your role helps reduce confusion and anxiety for patients, clients, and family members. This includes:
- Greeting and assisting patients and visitors
- Providing directions and wayfinding support throughout the hospital
- Assisting with access to amenities such as the cafeteria, gift shop, auditorium, meeting spaces, and restrooms
- Answering general questions and directing inquiries to the appropriate resources
Shifts Available:
- Shift available: Thursday - 01:00 pm - 4.00pm
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 - Gift Shop Volunteer
Volunteer Opportunity – Gift Shop Volunteer
Who Can Volunteer:
• Must be at least 16 years old
Role Description:
The Gift Shop Volunteer helps create a welcoming and positive environment for patients, visitors, and staff. This role involves providing friendly customer service and assisting with daily gift shop operations. Volunteers enhance client experience while supporting fundraising efforts that directly benefit patient care and services.
Qualifications:
- Provide excellent customer service to visitors and staff
- Strong communication skills
- Respectful and inclusive of diverse populations
- Sensitive to the needs of patients, visitors, and staff
- Aware of and respectful toward cultural, financial, and age differences
- Able to maintain confidentiality
- Adequate conversational English to follow instructions, complete tasks, communicate effectively, and adhere to safety and organizational policies
Shift Availability:
• Tuesday / Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Supervision:
Volunteers are supported by the Gift Shop Manager and staff throughout their shifts, while also being able to manage tasks on their own when needed and appropriately trained.
Saskatoon City Hospital - GEM (Geriatric Evaluation and Management) Program Volunteer
Who Can Volunteer:
- Must be 16 years of age or older
About the Role:
Do you enjoy welcoming others with a smile and spending time visiting with people? GEM Program volunteers help patients feel welcome and reduce any apprehension they may have upon arriving at the hospital. Volunteers provide socialization and non-medical support, assisting patients as they arrive and guiding them from the front door to the GEM dining room.
- Engage in conversation with individual patients or groups during coffee time
- Assist with the walking group, socializing and making conversation with patients
- Support recreation therapy staff with creative activities, engaging patients in fun and meaningful programs
- Gain experience working as part of an interprofessional team and with older adults
Shifts Available:
Monday: 8:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Skills & Qualities Needed:
- Friendly, approachable, and patient manner
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Willingness to interact with older adults and participate in activities
- Ability to work as part of a team
Additional Information:
This is an ongoing volunteer opportunity, ideal for anyone interested in gaining experience in a healthcare and interprofessional team environment
The program is currently based at Saskatoon City Hospital and will transition to Market Mall in the winter. Please consider location and accessibility when applying.
St. Paul's Hospital - Hemodialysis Volunteer
Volunteer must be 18 years of age or older
Weekly Commitment: We ask volunteers to commit to a minimum of one shift per week. Shifts are 2-3 hours in length
Position Commitment: We ask volunteers to commit to volunteering for a minimum of 6 months or 40 volunteer hours.
About the Role:
The Hemodialysis Volunteer role has a social focus. Volunteers are expected to visit with the patients which can help to alleviate loneliness and boredom while they are on the unit for dialysis. This role supports patients, their families and staff.
Duties:
- Spending time visiting patients is one of the primary duties of an associate. A volunteer's friendly smile and caring disposition may help patients feel more comfortable before, during or after their treatment. Associates offer socialization and non-medical support to patients.
- Assist with getting patients to and from the Unit as needed.,
- Volunteers may also perform Unit related tasks
Volunteers for this role require:
- Interpersonal skills
- Strong communications skills
- Organizational skills
- The ability to interact in a friendly, welcoming and reassuring manner
- The ability to work independently
Additional Information:
Hemodialysis is the most common way to treat advanced kidney failure. It is a treatment that cleans the blood, regulates water and removes waste from the body when a person’s kidneys no longer function. This is referred to as “life-sustaining therapy” as without dialysis a person would not live. It affects people in different ways, but some are still able to be active in their communities, work or go to school.
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.
Saskatoon City Hospital and St. Paul's Hospital
