Who Are Our Volunteers?
Cooper volunteers are men and women from your community who care about Cooper and contribute their time and energy to assist the hospital in a wide variety of activities.
Cooper also has a student volunteer program for those between the ages of 14 and 18 (students must be in 9th grade). Student volunteers often select their assignments according to their career goals and interest.
Volunteer Services
Cooper volunteers contribute their skills, time, and energy to more than 50 different assignments within three volunteer programs.
Cooper Connect Advisors
Be a connector!
Cooper Connect, located in the lobby of Cooper's new Moorestown Campus, is a place where patients and their families can get assistance with managing health and wellness through technology. Cooper Connect Advisors will engage, assist, and navigate patients through the myCooper app, teaching them how to schedule and confirm appointments, access lab results, and communicate with doctors. Advisors may also help with other apps and answer other health technology questions. Volunteers will be needed Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This opportunity is ideal for tech-savvy volunteers who are good at explaining concepts to people at any level.
We would love to hear from you if you are: an effectively communicator, comfortable with technology, responsive to the needs of others, and have a desire to work with patients, their families, and health professionals.
Cooper Nightingales
Use your heart!
Every Cooper patient is more than their illness. By exercising compassion, responsiveness, and excellence, our volunteer Nightingales can make a major contribution to overall treatment and recovery. In this role, you will gain experience on a hospital nursing unit as you provide comfort to and communicate with patients of all ages. On any given shift, you may be responsible for pharmacy and lab rounds, responding to call bells, helping patients with their meals, or fulfilling patient and family requests. Working as part of the nursing team, you will have the opportunity to enhance the quality of care for hospitalized patients. This program is ideal for volunteers considering a health profession.
We would love to hear from you if you are: empathetic, an effective communicator, a motivated self-starter, a team player, interested in pursuing a health profession, responsive to the needs of others, and have a desire to work with patients, their families, and health professionals
Story Catchers
Interview patients and be creative!
Every Cooper patient is more than their illness. By exercising compassion, responsiveness, and excellence, a volunteer Story Catcher can make a major contribution to overall treatment and recovery. In this position, you will get to know the person they were before they became a patient at Cooper University Health Care by conducting interviews to learn about their lives. Then you will create a visual representation of the patient’s story on an 8x10 picture board, laminate it, and bring it back to the patient. This allows anyone walking into the room to understand who the patient is as a person. This program is ideal for volunteers with a creative streak who are also great listeners.
We would love to hear from you if you are: empathetic, an effective communicator, a motivated self-starter, a team player, interested in pursuing a health profession, responsive to the needs of others, and have a desire to work with patients, their families, and health professionals.
Fall Prevention Educators
Do you like to teach?
Did you know that patient falls are one of the most common, costly, and harmful health events across settings of care? Multiple factors contribute to inpatient falls including confusion, delirium, weakness, frequent toileting, and multiple medications. As a volunteer Fall Prevention Educator, you can be part of the team that helps educate patients about the risks of falls to ensure a safe environment. This program is ideal for volunteers who are good at explaining concepts to people at any level.
We would love to hear from you if you are: empathetic, an effective communicator, a motivated self-starter, a team player, interested in pursuing a health profession, responsive to the needs of others, and have a desire to work with patients, their families, and health professionals.
Interviews
Prospective volunteers must make an appointment for a personal interview with the Director of Volunteers or the Volunteer Coordinator. In this interview, you will discuss your needs and those of the hospital. We will then suggest a mutually rewarding volunteer position for you. As soon as we've matched you with a suitable position, we will schedule you with the department in which you will be working. At that time we will discuss your time commitment and job.
Volunteer Training
All volunteers will participate in an orientation program. Training is provided on the job by the hospital staff or by other volunteers. In addition to verbal instructions, departments and services have written job descriptions to help define the volunteer's duties.