Volunteer with Us

2025/05/20

Join our team of volunteers!

Our volunteers come from all walks of life – students, working adults, homemakers, retirees and expatriates. They spend time engaging our patients in activities like art and craft, music, games and more.

Regular Programmes

Care Companions

Volunteers assist with patient care tasks and support patients with their daily activities in our adult wards. General responsibilities include:

Engage patients in cognitive activities appropriate to their education level and occupation
Conduct reality orientation for confused patients
Attend to call bell and assist with patients’ request, for example, adjust the bed elevation, adjust fan speed, help patient charge their phone
Encourage /assist patient with leg exercises in bed

Night Sitter Programme
Volunteers watch over elderly patients who are at risk of falls and look out for their safety. They spend three hours between 9pm to 8am, next day to engage our patients in light activities and make them comfortable so they can sleep better. General responsibilities include:

Watch over patients who are identified at risk for falls
Conduct reality orientation for confused patients
Attend to call bell and assist with patients’ request, for example, adjust the bed elevation, adjust fan speed, help patient charge their phone
Encourage /assist patient with leg exercises in bed

Clinic Buddy
Volunteers assist outpatients with basic translation, wayfinding, general enquiries at the clinics. They also assist outpatients on using the self-service kiosk, attend to wait time queries as well as look out for patients' welfare.

Music Programmes
Music has always been comforting to many people and makes our patients feel relaxed or happy. Share your music with our patients, caregivers and visitors if you play a musical instrument e.g. piano, flute or sing.

365 Hours of Music
Sing-Me-A-Story
Our community partner, Sing'theatre brings cheer and smile to our paediatric patients every fortnight. Characters dressed in princesses' and superhero's costumes will sing and act, delighting our young patients.

Ensemble Kanon
Comprising musicians who come from Japan, the trio met in Singapore and have been passionate about sharing their music monthly in the hospital since September 2023.

Playing the piano, clarinet and flute, they perform monthly from 11.00am to 11.30am and 12.00pm to 12.30pm at Medical Centre, Zone A, level 3, piano (near the Pharmacy). Come with your loved ones or friends and be enchanted by their beautiful music renditions.

When Music Meets Life
From April 2024 to February 2025, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay brought live music to the hospital once every two months. Their volunteer artistes shared a variety of music repertoire with our patients in the wards.

Ad-hoc Programmes

We welcome individuals and groups keen to organise ad-hoc activities (e.g. festive visits, art and craft or learn a new skill) for our patients. Share your proposal here.

Project KRaft
Rotaract Club of National University of Singapore (NUS) organised several art and craft sessions yearly for our inpatients to celebrate occasions such as Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, International Women's Day and Deepavali. With their creative ideas, these volunteers keep our patients occupied with meaningful activities such as tote bag painting, paper flower, flashlight art and 3D card.

Corporate and Institution Volunteering

If your organisation, company or educational institution is looking for volunteering experiences to engage your staff / members / students and promote social responsibility or drive positive changes, we love to hear from you. Contact us to discuss about potential partnership or share your proposal here.

United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA), Dover
Student volunteers from UWCSEA Dover spend time befriending our patients. They interact with the patients weekly through conversations and leisure activities such as board and card games.

Join us if you are:

Aged 16 and above at the time of application. At least 21 years old for Night Sitter Programme
In general good health
Able to commit on a weekly basis for six months upon confirmation of enrolment for the following:
1. At least one hour per session in our Care Companions (Daily, including Public Holiday – anytime from 10am to 9pm); or
2. Minimum three hours per session in our Night Sitter Programme (Daily, including Public Holiday – anytime from 9pm to 8am); or
3. Three hours per session in our Clinic Buddy (Monday to Friday only, anytime from 8am to 5pm)
Able to fulfill the following vaccinations requirements. For regular volunteers*, to submit vaccination records for: _{^{*Come between once a week to once a month}}
1. Two doses, COVID-19
2. Two doses, MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) or blood test result
3. Two doses, Varicella (Chickenpox) or blood test result
4. One dose, Boostrix (Tdap); valid for 10 years
Able to attend an induction or orientation at NUH prior to commencement of volunteer service.

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