Healthwatch Community Champion

Healthwatch Community Champion 

 

Overview

Healthwatch Community Champions are our eyes and ears on the ground, in the community sharing what we do as well as sharing back information collected within our communities.

 

Why should you be a Healthwatch Community Champion?  

If you have a passion for your local community and making services better for people in those areas and beyond, then this is the right role for you. You will the ‘eyes’ and ‘ears’ of what is happening within the community. We have a vital role to play in ensuring people in our area are engaged, listened to and provided with an avenue to tell us their views and opinions about health and social care services.

 

This opportunity is flexible and may involve only some or all of the activities below. You tell us how you would like to contribute, and we will do our best to fit the role to you.

 

What could the role involve?  

 

  • Being a link person between Healthwatch and other organisations; members of the public and community groups
  • Helping us gather people’s experiences of using health and social care services from all communities
  • Receive and cascade information that Healthwatch sends out
  • Refer people to Healthwatch to have their voices heard or to be signposted to the correct place
  • Distributing leaflets to locations or groups near you e.g. GP surgeries, shops, churches or social groups
  • Support engagement work in communities by being active in your own local area, representing and channelling the views of local people. 
  • Engaging people using online platforms e.g. Zoom, Teams  
  • As a Healthwatch Community Champion you will be committed to improving health and social care services alongside other volunteers and the Healthwatch team

 

Personal specification/requirements

  • Able to work as a team with other volunteers and staff  
  • Experience of using Office software (support is available if you do not have this experience)
  • Access to the internet/email  
  • Be comfortable volunteering from home and using online meeting platforms e.g. Zoom or Microsoft Teams (training can be provided in the latter)  
  • Respectful of confidentiality  

 

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role does not require a DBS check.

  

How we will support you?  

You will have regular contact with a member of the Healthwatch team to provide you with support and guidance throughout. You will receive any training you want or need, including an induction to Healthwatch, and you will be part of a team who will make sure your volunteering experience is positive.  

 

How much time is involved?

This role is flexible, and the time commitment will be agreed by you and your Volunteer Supporter.

 

How to apply

If you have any questions or you would like to find out more, please call us on 01524 239 100, complete the expression of interest form here, (Expression of interest / Initial application form) 

Please outline any accessibility requirements that you may have in the registration form so that we can best support your application.  

We look forward to hearing from you.