Hospice Volunteer Application Form

Support End-of-Life Care with Compassion

Hospice volunteers play a vital role in providing comfort, companionship, and support to patients and families during one of life's most profound transitions. Finding volunteers who are emotionally prepared, properly trained, and genuinely committed to this meaningful work requires a thorough yet compassionate application process.

This Hospice Volunteer Application Form template helps hospice organizations, palliative care programs, and healthcare providers efficiently screen and onboard volunteers while ensuring they're ready for the unique emotional and practical demands of end-of-life care work.

What makes this form essential for hospice programs

The form combines emotional readiness assessment with practical scheduling and health screening to create a complete volunteer profile. It asks thoughtful questions about motivations, previous experience with loss, coping strategies, and comfort levels with different aspects of hospice care—helping coordinators identify candidates who will thrive in this role while protecting both volunteers and patients.

Built with Paperform's conditional logic, the template adapts based on responses, asking follow-up questions only when relevant and creating a respectful, person-centered application experience. The scheduling component captures detailed availability across days and shifts, making it easier to match volunteers with patient needs.

Streamline your volunteer coordination

Once submitted, application data can flow directly into your volunteer management system, CRM, or scheduling tools through Paperform's native integrations or Stepper workflows. You can automatically route complete applications to volunteer coordinators, trigger background check processes, send training invitations, or create onboarding task sequences—eliminating manual data entry and ensuring no application falls through the cracks.

For organizations that need multiple approval steps, Stepper can route applications through review committees, track training completion, and update volunteer databases once candidates are cleared to begin. This creates a seamless path from application to active volunteer status.

Trusted by healthcare and nonprofit teams

Whether you're a hospital-based hospice program, independent hospice organization, palliative care team, or faith-based end-of-life care provider, this template provides the thorough assessment needed to build a compassionate, reliable volunteer team. Customize questions to reflect your specific training requirements, add your organization's values and mission statement, and adjust availability options to match your scheduling needs.

Paperform is SOC 2 Type II compliant and trusted by healthcare organizations worldwide, offering the security and reliability your sensitive volunteer data requires—though please note Paperform is not HIPAA compliant for patient health information.