Current Volunteer Opportunities

AMBASSADOR

Reading Hospital

Duties: Escorts patients, their families, and guests from lobby areas to their destination. Ambassadors needed for R-Lobby, C-Lobby, and E-Lobby of the Main Campus.

CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH*

Reading Hospital

Duties: Greets patients and provides coordination of medication management appointments and follow-up of medication visits. Performs other clerical work, such as filing and answering phones. *This position requires additional criminal clearances.

CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER*

Reading Hospital

Duties: Assists classroom teachers. This involves reading to children, playing with small groups in classrooms and playground, and running errands throughout the Child Development Center. Please note: This position is very physically active. Volunteers must be high energy and able to work independently. *This position requires additional criminal clearances.

CHILDREN’S HEALTH CENTER

Reading Hospital

Duties: Assists Children’s Health Center staff with various clerical work. This involves filing, scanning, helping with department mail, and running errands. *This position requires additional criminal clearances.

COMPASSIONATE CARE GIVER

Reading Hospital / Reading Health Rehabilitation Hospital

Duties: Lifts the spirit and reduces the emotional suffering of patients in the hospital, their family members, and TRHMC staff by visiting, engaging in conversations, and listening.

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Reading Hospital

Duties: Assists the physicians, nursing staff, and ancillary staff in the department to provide indirect patient care. *This position requires additional criminal clearances.

EMPLOYEE HEALTH SERVICES

Reading Hospital

Duties: Assists staff with filing and other minor clerical work.

FARM FRESH ASSISTANT

Reading Hospital

Duties: Assists with the delivery of Farm Fresh produce and meats to employees. Includes providing excellent customer service, checking orders and breaking down boxes.

GIFT SHOP

Reading Hospital

Duties: Assists in gift shops with ringing sales and marking merchandise. This position also involves answering the phone, inflating balloons, delivering gift items to patient floors, as well various related tasks.

NUTRITION SERVICES

Reading Hospital / Reading Health Rehabilitation Hospital

Duties: Assists the members of the Nutrition Department with cafeteria and food service preparation tasks. This involves restocking of paper supplies such as cups, napkins and disposable plates. Also assists cafeteria employees replenish food and beverages for customer purchases

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES

Reading Health at Muhlenberg Center

Duties: Assists Occupational Health Services staff with various clerical work. This involves greeting patients, filing, copying, and preparing charts.

OUTPATIENT SERVICES

Reading Health Rehabilitation Hospital / Reading Health at Wyomissing Plaza

Duties: Assists Outpatient Services staff with various clerical work. This involves filing, copying, making charts and running errands.

PAIN MANAGEMENT

Reading Hospital

Duties: Assists staff by phoning for discharge rides, making beds, and general hospitality functions for patients.

PAWS FOR WELLNESS*

Reading Hospital / Reading Health Rehabilitation Hospital

Duties: Provides patients and staff with pet therapy under the supervision of the Director of the PAWS for Wellness program.*Pets must be certified therapy animals.

REACH OUT AND READ*

Reading Hospital

Duties: Reads to children in the waiting room, restocks free book cart, models reading for parents and other care givers. Books will be provided. *This position requires additional criminal clearances.

SURGICENTER COURIER

Reading Hospital

Duties: Escorts patients from D3 SurgiCenter registration to E4 South Ambulatory Unit. Runs various errands for staff.

SURGICENTER DESK

Reading Health at Spring Ridge

Duties: Assists the office with various clerical work and helps transport patients from recovery.

WOMEN'S CENTER

Reading Hospital

Duties: Assists the staff with various clerical tasks such as making charts and filing. Also escorts patients to rooms and runs errands.