There are lots of different ways you can get involved as a Healthwatch volunteer, from speaking to people about their experiences of health and social care to using your skills to support your local Healthwatch office.
Whether you want to help give a voice to people in your community or develop your professional skills in a health and social care environment, there are many benefits of volunteering for us.
We have recently updated our volunteer roles, with opportunities including an Enter and View role and a Projects role.
Projects Volunteer role
The Project Volunteer plays a key role in our deep-dive studies helping us bring the patient experience to life. The role requires collecting, logging, analysing, and reporting on feedback from our local community. The research we conduct helps to shed light on inequalities and other issues within local health and social care provision. As a result of our research, we publish a report to our health and social care partners and via our channels of communication.
Healthwatch have a statutory function to carry out Enter & View visits to health and care services to review services at the point of delivery. This involves visiting with a team of representatives to observe the service, view the premises and talk to both staff, patients/residents, carers and relatives.
Visits involve using all the senses and going through questions and surveys. Enter & View visits often take place at a range of services such as hospital wards, community clinics and care homes etc. You will receive full training on how to perform an Enter & View visit.
