Gift Shop Volunteer at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center

Gift Shop volunteers are vital to the volunteer program. MPMC maintains gift shops on both campuses, Burlingame and San Mateo. Proceeds from sales go toward healthcare scholarships for county residents and MPMC staff and help support MPMC’s medical facilities. Volunteer duties include becoming familiar with the products for sale, keeping displays neat and dusted, making sure prices are easy to find, restocking, and other tasks as assigned. Volunteers will be trained on how to open and close the shop, do cash and credit transactions, and reconcile the day’s revenue and receipts. The Burlingame Gift Shop also manages “Baby Sprouts,” MPMC’s breast pump rental program for new mothers.

Qualifications

• Customer service focus
• Must be comfortable operating a computer and point-of-sale
• Cash handling experience
• Merchandising experience
• Willingness to clean
• Must be able to sit / stand / walk for long periods of time.
• Multi-line telephone experience

Training

• Apply online
• Attend a Virtual Information Meeting (90-minutes)
• Complete appropriate health testing and drug test (in person with our Employee Health Department; no charge to applicant)
• Pass a background check (completed online through an outside agency; no charge to applicant)
• Interview Virtually with Volunteer Services staff (45-minutes)
• Attend a Virtual orientation (2 hours)
• Complete online training on your own computer on your own time (~7 hours)
• Complete specific service area training (time is variable depending on the assignment)

Burlingame: 3-4 hours, Monday-Friday, 9:30 am - 6:30 pm

San Mateo: Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 2:30 pm.

As important members of Mills-Peninsula's healthcare team, volunteers share many benefits:

• Gift shop discounts
• Free annual flu shots
• Appreciation events
• Private hospital room
• Annual tuberculosis test
• Auxiliary/Foundation Scholarship Program