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Volunteering at Healthwatch Calderdale

Are you our new volunteer?

Have you always fancied getting involved in volunteering but didn’t know where to start?

Worried you can’t commit to a weekly set day each week?

At Healthwatch Calderdale we have flexible volunteering roles to suit all.

If you have an interest in making a difference in your community by listening to people and finding out if health and care services are working for them, then come and join us.

Our volunteers play a vital role in helping people to have a voice by listening to their experiences.

What sort of things might I do as a volunteer?

There’s a lot to get involved in here at Healthwatch Calderdale

  • Supporting our staff team at our engagement and outreach sessions in the community by listening to people’s experiences of health and social care.
  • You may be interested in helping us to visit services to make sure they are providing people with the right service and support
  • Perhaps you like to research online and help us gather health and social care feedback this way to support us
  • Can you help by talking to your own family, friends, work colleagues or neighbours and gathering their feedback about health and social care services they have used?
  • We need help to raise awareness of the work we do at events or in the community
  • Do you enjoy helping with administration tasks such as proof checking and reading documents or reports, designing surveys, analysing data or helping with our volunteer newsletter? 
  • Do you feel you could help by representing us at hospital trust meetings, or the many other meetings we attend? 

These are some of the many things you might help us with. Give us a call to discuss what your interest might be. Most of all, come on join us and be part of a happy vibrant team that wants to improve services for all.

Here is a picture of one of our volunteers supporting us a an outreach event. 

 

      What’s it like to volunteer at Healthwatch? See what our lovely volunteers think! 

 

“Volunteering with Healthwatch is so rewarding. We are made to feel part of the team and are definitely appreciated.  It’s good to put something back into our community and feel that we are helping make changes for the better, for everyone to benefit”

Sheran, Admin & data entry volunteer, Healthwatch Calderdale 

“I volunteer because I enjoy helping as many people as possible, and I also enjoy working with my colleagues meeting different people and getting out there (in the community at outreach sessions). I gain an awful lot from volunteering, but the main thing is being part of a team contributing to Healthwatch the best I can”

Alex , Community engagement and outreach volunteer, Healthwatch Calderdale 

I volunteer with Healthwatch because I love chatting to people about what’s going on for them and I think that the work Healthwatch do is incredibly important, it gives me a sense of purpose and belonging ” 

Andrew, Enter and View volunteer, For Healthwatch Kirklees & Healthwatch Calderdale 

 

In my volunteer role, I welcome the opportunity to support people to enable their voices to be heard in relation to aspects of service delivery- identifying examples of good practice whilst also highlighting where improvements need to be made and how they might be achieved” 

Lynne, Enter and view volunteer, for Healthwatch Kirklees & Healthwatch Calderdale 

 

If you are interested in any of the roles above please get in touch with Katherine Sharp, Volunteering and Engagement Officer (Enter and View Lead)

Email- katherine.sharp@healthwatchkirklees.co.uk

Telephone – 01924 450379

Current volunteering opportunities at Healthwatch Calderdale

Roles include:

  • Enter and View Volunteer – (re-opening  Feb 2025 )
  • Online feedback collector  – Join us now
  • Community engagement and outreach volunteer – Join us now

 

Do you want to find out more? 

See our roles below. 

It is essential for us at Healthwatch that our staff and volunteers work together and are honest and transparent. It is important that staff and volunteers are polite and friendly and make all individuals we speak to, or who contact us feel comfortable and valued. We want every voice to count.


Healthwatch Calderdale have a legal right to carry out Enter & View visits to any publicly funded health or social care service.  This includes residential/nursing homes, day care services, GP practices and hospital wards.

We recruit and train Authorised Representatives (Enter and View volunteers) who will carry out the Enter and View visits with staff on behalf of Healthwatch Calderdale.  The Authorised Representatives spend time talking to people who use and work in the service they are visiting, then write a report with recommendations where required.  Authorised Representatives are fully supported by staff from the Healthwatch Calderdale team.

Download the role description below: 
Volunteer Role Description – Enter and View

If you are interested in any of these roles please download and complete the expression of interest form here: 
Volunteer Expression of Interest Form

Then return to  Katherine Sharp, Volunteering and Engagement Officer (Enter and View Lead) katherine.sharp@healthwatchkirklees.co.uk 

If you wish to speak to us about this role please get in touch on 01422 412141 or email 

Healthwatch Calderdale needs you to be our eyes and ears in the community. We want our ‘Community Engagement and Outreach volunteers’ to make sure we are finding out as much about public opinion as we can. We would like volunteers to go into the communities, talk to family and friends and gather comments about their experience of using health and social care services.  We want to hear about both the good things and what people think could work better.

This role is very flexible and you can commit as much time as works best for you.

If you’re interested please download the full role description below:

Community Engagement & Outreach Volunteer HWK HWC

F1V Volunteer expression of interest form

To apply and for more information contact Katherine Sharp, Volunteering and Engagement Officer (Enter and View Lead) on 01924 450379 or email katherine.sharp@healthwatchkirklees.co.uk

What is an online Feedback collector?

As an online feedback collector, you will be a listening ear. You’ll be collecting feedback about people’s experiences of health and social care services that has been left online, for example on social media, on websites, and on news articles. Volunteering from home role. 

This role is very flexible and you can commit as much time as works best for you.

If you’re interested please download the full role description below:

Volunteer role description Online feedback collector
 
 
To apply and for more information contact Katherine Sharp, Volunteering and Engagement Officer (Enter and View Lead) on 01924 450379 or email katherine.sharp@healthwatchkirklees.co.uk


Volunteer Expression of Interest

If you'd like to know more about becoming a volunteer for Healthwatch, please complete this form and we'll send you more information.

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  • This form is an initial expression of interest for the Healthwatcher volunteering role. All our volunteering roles require further information which you'll complete when we send you a registration form. We'll collect other information including emergency contact numbers and require referees for each role. If you are under 18 we will also need consent, at a later date to volunteer, from a parent or guardian.