Opportunities

Enloe volunteer

Volunteer Service Areas

Volunteers at Enloe Health enhance the experience of our patients and their families. They provide services and care that complements the outstanding service of our caregivers.

The best gift a volunteer can give is the gift of time: time to escort a visitor to his or her destination, time to run a delivery errand for a nurse, or time to sit and chat with a patient. All these actions help Enloe provide exceptional service. Learn about our volunteer service areas and apply below.

Gift Shop

Enloe Health Gift Shop associates provide a caring retail environment for staff and visitors inside the hospital’s beautiful shop. The Gift Shop is the largest fundraiser of the Enloe Health Volunteers.

Learn more about what the Gift Shop has to offer. Apply for the Gift Shop!

Guest Services

Guest Services volunteers help create a welcoming environment.

The Emergency Department Guest Services volunteers respond to the needs of patients, staff and visitors. These volunteers play an important role in helping people stay informed and comfortable, escorting patients, and supporting the clinical staff as requested. This placement is currently not accepting applications.

The Main Lobby Guest Services volunteers greet and escort visitors to their destinations. These volunteers also run non-medical errands, like transporting specimens from nursing units to the lab, delivering patient belongings, mail and gifts, and helping escort patients off their unit. These volunteers provide valuable and meaningful support to both Guest Services and the Admitting staff. This placement is currently not accepting applications.

Surgery Guest Services volunteers are stationed at the hospital’s North Entrance. These volunteers play an important role in helping people by keeping waiting family and friends updated, supporting staff, and providing information to visitors arriving to the North Entrance reception desk. These volunteers provide valuable and meaningful support to both the Admitting and Surgery staff. This placement is currently not accepting applications.

The Enloe Health Outpatient Center Guest Services volunteers respond to the needs of patients, staff and visitors. These volunteers play an important role in helping people stay informed and comfortable, assist with wayfinding, and supporting the clinical staff as requested.

Apply for Enloe Outpatient Center, Guest Services.

College Program

College Program Volunteers help create a welcoming and compassionate environment in the Emergency Department at Enloe Health by responding to the needs of patients, staff, and visitors. Volunteers play an important role in helping people stay informed and comfortable, escorting patients to other hospital locations, and supporting the clinical staff as requested. 

Apply for College Program Volunteers.

Mother Baby

  • Mother Baby Unit Support. These volunteers assist Enloe Health’s Mother Baby unit during recurring regularly scheduled weekly shifts. While on shift, volunteers will prioritize the needs of NAS infants before performing generalized nursing unit support tasks. These volunteers make up the core of the program by working a weekly 3-hour shift. Shifts are offered seven days a week at the following times: 6-9 a.m., 9 a.m. to noon, noon to 3 p.m. and 3-6 p.m. This placement is currently full and not accepting applications.
  • Mother Baby Cuddle Care Call List Only. These volunteers assist the Mother Baby unit on an as-needed basis. Call list volunteers are responsible for monitoring the on-call phone and then contacting other call list only volunteers to schedule coverage when unit-based volunteers are not scheduled. Shifts are offered seven days a week at the following times: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. This placement is currently full and not accepting applications.

Caring For You Cart

Enloe Health’s Caring For You Cart, a mobile hospitality service is accepting applications. Volunteers in this role push the cart through Enloe’s visitor lounges greeting guests with complimentary refreshments and small comfort items like coloring pages, puzzle pages, blankets and more.

This service can make a big difference for patients and their loved ones because it enables volunteers to set them at ease with a warm welcome and some friendly conversation.

Apply for the Caring For You Cart program.

Cancer Center

At the Enloe Health Regional Cancer Center, volunteers provide companionship and emotional support to patients and their families. Volunteer service areas at the Cancer Center are designed to meet these patients’ unique needs and include Guest Services and Specialty Programs. This placement is currently not accepting applications.

Hospice & Palliative Care

Hospice & Palliative Care volunteers provide care and support in response to the individual needs of patients with serious illnesses and those on end-of-life comfort care. Hospice volunteers support both the patients and their family members during these times of transition.

Bereavement support is provided for families who have recently lost a loved one. This service area is currently not accepting applications. Please check back later.

Complementary Therapies

Some community members share a very specific talent with our patients and visitors.

Massage and reiki volunteers provide short sessions to patients and caregivers to promote relaxation.

Volunteer musicians help to create a healing environment by playing soothing, pleasant music. This helps to reduce anxiety, provides diversion and supports a sense of well-being. Apply for Complementary Therapies!

Office Resource

These volunteers provide administrative support by answering phones, doing light filing, sorting and data entry, greeting visitors, and more. This service area is currently not accepting applications. Please check back later.

Patient Ambassadors

Patient Ambassadors are a highly trained group of volunteers who provide visitation and advocacy for our patients at the bedside. These volunteers round from room to room on an assigned floor, meeting non-medical needs, providing emotional support and partnering with staff in providing a caring environment.

Patient Ambassadors are compassionate, good listeners and emotionally mature. Volunteers in this program commit to a minimum of 18 months of service after completion of training. Apply for Patient Ambassadors!

P.A.W.S. (Pets Assisting With Service)

Pet teams provide joy and diversion by visiting patients, visitors, and staff members. Not just any dog can be a volunteer! The pet and its human handler must be registered with Pet Partners, Therapy Dogs International or The Alliance of Therapy Dogs, nationally recognized nonprofit organizations that certify animals and handlers to ensure safety and standards in the health care setting.

Once your dog is certified with one of these organizations, the human end of the team can become an official Enloe Health volunteer. Pet visits are rewarding to patients and staff, as well as volunteers (both human and animal). Apply for P.A.W.S.!

Spiritual Support

The Spiritual Support Volunteer (SSV) Program serves Enloe Health by providing for the spiritual well-being of the patients, families and staff of Enloe, regardless of their faith tradition, or those whose spirituality is experienced away from religious context.

The Spiritual Support Volunteer Team is an interfaith group of community members who provide services that are supportive, respectful, unbiased, and trustworthy, honoring all traditions and the great variety of ways in which we as people experience our spiritual lives. Apply for Spiritual Support!

Contact Us

Enloe Volunteer Services

Phone: 530-332-4575

Contact Us Online

1465 Esplanade
Chico, CA 95926

Hours: Monday through Friday,
7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.