This volunteer orientation template is a ready-made Google Docs handbook for hospitals and hospices that recruit and place unpaid volunteers. It covers the welcome, roles and responsibilities, infection control, confidentiality, patient contact and support in eight designed pages, so each new volunteer gets the same clear starting point.

Each page carries sample text for Everdale Services, a fictional health charity, with a fictional coordinator and contacts. Make your own copy, replace the rules and contacts with your safeguarding and infection control policies, and check the wording with your legal adviser, because volunteering must never read as employment.