Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer applications are no longer being accepted for the 2024-2025 school year
Volunteer Services
Volunteer Orientation
Our goal is to meet the needs of our patients and community by delivering quality service that reflects the Northfield Hospital + Clinics standard of care, and to provide a meaningful experience for our volunteers. Volunteers have fun, meet interesting people, obtain career-related experience, and leave a lasting impression on patients and residents.
Volunteer Requirements
- Apply online to volunteer
- Screening Process (can take up to 1 month)
- Attend a 1 ½ hour orientation session
- Agree to a State of Minnesota Department of Human Services Background Study
- Complete a Volunteer Pre-Placement Health Evaluation
- Commit to 2 hours/week of volunteer service, minimum of 30 volunteer hours and 6 months
- Obtain a parental signature if applicant is under 18 years of age (applicants must be at least 16 years old)
- Carleton and St. Olaf students
- Volunteer applications are no longer being accepted for the 2024-2025 school year
- First year St. Olaf and Carleton students are not eligible to volunteer until Sophomore year.
- Must commit to a full school year and 30 volunteer hours
Benefits of Volunteering with Northfield Hospital + Clinics
- Free Flu Vaccinations every fall
- General good feeling for volunteering time and talents to help others!
Volunteer Opportunity Directory
Breast Care Center
- Monday-Friday - 2-4 hour shifts between 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Greet patients, appointment reminder phone calls, make coffee, light organizing/cleaning
Cancer Care & Infusion Center
- Tuesday-Friday - 2-4 hours shifts between 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- Greet patients, make coffee, light organizing/cleaning, clerical projects
Rehabilitation Services - Northfield (off campus)
- Monday-Friday - 2-hour shifts between 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- Restock items, sanitize, organize lobby, pull charts, copying, greet patients as appropriate
Emergency Department
- Weekends 7a.m. - 12 p.m. and 7p.m.-11p.m. 4-hour shifts
- Clean rooms, restock linen, sanitize areas, courier specimens/paperwork/equipment
- Volunteers must be 18 years of age of older
Knitting, Crocheting, & Sewing (We are not accepting baby hat donations at this time)
- Make baby hats and stockings for newborns in the Birth Center (at-home volunteer opportunity)
- Make blankets for Long Term Care families
Meals on Wheels
- 6 days a week - Lunch hour shifts 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Pick up prepared meals at hospital and deliver to community members per specified route.
Medical-Surgical Floor
- 7 days a week, 2-hour shifts
- Assist Med/Surg staff as needed/Concierge Program Visit patients and families.
Surgery Center
- Monday-Wednesday, 4-hour shifts between 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Greet and support family members, make coffee, clerical projects.
Birth Center
- 7 days a week, 2-hour shifts
- Greet patients and families
- Light organizing/cleaning
- Clerical projects
For more information or to become a volunteer at Northfield Hospital + Clinics, call (507) 646-1036.
HELP video for Volunteer Orientation