Community Engagement Volunteer Healthwatch Tower - Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom - YVHSC

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2 weeks ago

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Community Engagement Volunteer

This is an unpaid role.

About the role


Healthwatch Tower Hamlets is an independent organisation set up to champion the views of health and social care service users.

It strives to make sure that health and social care services are meeting local needs and to ensure that the public's voice is heard regarding how local services are run.


As a Community Engagement volunteer, you will be taking a lead in helping us reach people, contributing to our Patient Experience and Emerging Communities Programmes.

This role is ideal if you like talking and interacting with people, are passionate about the voice of the local communities and believe in equality.


Patient Experience


We visit healthcare and community settings to talk to people about their experiences with health and social care and capture those experiences with our feedback survey.

Following a visit, volunteers input the feedback into a database.

Those looking for further skills and development can get involved in analysing the data collected and help create charts and written content for our quarterly Patient Experience Report.


Healthwatch Link Champion/ Emerging Communities


If you have an interest in supporting an emerging or isolated community then you could contribute to our Patient Experience Programme as a Healthwatch Link Champion.

This part of the role specialises in gathering and feeding back views from a particular community, helping to build trust, improve links and deepen our understanding of how the community experiences health and social care services.


Tasks

  • Visiting health and care and community venues to talk to people and gather feedback.
  • Carrying out telephone engagement to capture people's feedback.
  • Collecting online reviews of relevant services from google, , and other review sites.
  • Inputting patient experience feedback into a database.
  • Analysing patient experience feedback.
  • Producing infographic summary reports, highlighting, and simplifying the key findings from our Patient Experience Report.

Time Commitment

  • A weekly commitment, weekday morning availability is required for the patient experience visits.
  • 4 hours a week, 3month minimum commitment

Travel commitment


You must be willing and able to travel across the borough - sometimes this could be up to 1.5 hours.


Is this role right for me?

What we are looking for:


  • Aged over 1
  • Able to travel to and around the borough.
  • Confidence in speaking with strangers.
  • Friendly, approachable manner with good verbal communication and listening skills.
  • Awareness of personal and professional boundaries.

Considered a Bonus:


  • Additional languages are considered a plus.

Benefits of volunteering

  • Incredibly social role, where you meet and work with lots of other people
  • Join a network of over 300 volunteers
  • Gain access to our training hub and develop yourself further
  • Our volunteers receive priority job alerts for internal paid roles
  • Travel expenses covered

Job Type:
Volunteer


Salary:
£1.00 per year


Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Tower Hamlets: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

  • Are you available to volunteer on weekday mornings

Work Location:
In person
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