Volunteer Opportunities

Greets and directs patients and families, engages patients and siblings in play opportunities, assists with additional family and patient needs.

Supports the Volunteer Manager with office duties including but not limited to filing, phone calls, database entry, and additional clerical tasks.

Greets and directs patients and families, engages patients and siblings in play opportunities, assists with additional family and patient needs.

Facilitate playroom and bedside activities for patients and siblings. Assisting the Child Life Specialist when needed e.g. organizing, restocking, cleaning, etc.

Interacts with patients, families and visitors in the waiting room. Cleans, organizes, and restocks equipment and supplies. Assists the Rehabilitation team as needed.

Distributes free books to patients throughout AdventHealth for Children.

Facilitate playroom and bedside activities for patients and siblings. Assisting the Child Life Specialist when needed e.g. organizing, restocking, cleaning, etc.

Helping at FIT schools/sites: helping making teacher kits, name badges, program set up, and more. Assisting as a helping hand with our nutrition workshops/education classes. Please check out our website here.

Facilitates bedside activities for patients and siblings. Assists the Child Life Specialist when needed e.g. organizing, restocking, cleaning, etc.

Greets and directs patients and families, engages patients and siblings in play opportunities, provides additional family and patient needs in an outpatient setting. Assists staff with administrative duties as directed.

Program runs June - July. Students engage in structured shifts to assist with programs throughout AdventHealth for Children e.g. infection prevention, child life, playrooms, etc.

Greeting and welcoming patients and families upon entering the facility. Providing directions throughout our hospital. Walking guests to their destinations.

A dog and their owner visiting patients and families throughout AdventHealth for Children in order to create the human and animal connection.

Assisting the Child Life Specialist with administrative duties such as (creating memory making opportunities for the families, documenting patient milestones, etc.) Assisting in the milk bank, providing support and play opportunities for patients, siblings, and more.

Wash, fold, and properly store all laundry e.g. handmade isolate blankets, developmental wraps, etc., cover Health Unit Coordinators during breaks, restock patient rooms, interact with multidisciplinary team members.

Assist Health Unit Coordinators, restock patient rooms/supply rooms, assist nursing staff with unit needs, and more.

Create and donate handmade items for our patients and families including but not limited to quilts, baby hats, superhero capes, sibling sacks, blankets and more.

Gathering infection prevention data throughout the hospital through observing and interaction with multidisciplinary pediatric staff.

Volunteers will assist/shadow the appropriate research team member to gain knowledge about the research process and ethical standards for conducting research.

Working closely with the child life team to provide comfort and play opportunities to pediatric patients/siblings of all ages and abilities throughout the entire children's hospital. Focusing on patients that don't receive frequent visitors and patients whose parents need to take a break.