Why volunteer with us?
- Give people and communities a stronger voice to influence and challenge how health and care services are provided within their locality.
- Make new friends as you become part of the Healthwatch team.
- Boost your CV as you develop new skills and confidence in the workplace.
- Use your skills to contribute to the success of Healthwatch across South Tees.
Current Volunteering Opportunities:
Virtual Voices – Virtual Voices Volunteers use their own social media feeds to collect anonymised information about people’s experiences of health and care, share posts and information on current projects, priorities, and work.
Community Engagement Volunteer – Community Engagement Volunteers get out and about talking to people about their views and experiences of local health and care services, or raising awareness of our work in hospitals, GP surgeries, libraries, shopping centre stalls, our annual STAR awards and at community events for example.
Research Volunteer – Work with staff to support the research function of HWST to provide evidence and context to people’s views and experiences of using different health and social care services.
There are many more exciting roles coming up in the future. If you are interested, please contact our Volunteer and Engagement Officer Vicky Jackson on vicky.jackson@pcp.uk.net, or ring, text or WhatsApp on 07451288789.
Listen to Anthony, one of our volunteers talking about why he volunteers with us.
Anthony describes Healthwatch South Tees as 'One big family'.
Transcript for BSL video above:
Healthwatch are an independent organisation who listen to feedback about people’s experiences of health and care services.
We are not employed by these services, so we can challenge them, be a critical friend and let them know if they work or not for everyone who needs them.
We do this in lots of different ways and our amazing volunteers help us with this.
If this is something, you might be interested in there are many ways you can get involved.
You can be a:
Home based digital volunteer, using your own social media to
- Connect to local groups and collect feedback about people’s experiences of health and care services.
- Share posts and information about the work we do, activities in the local area and encourage people to take part in our consultations.
- Check digital communications about health and care services for example visit GP websites and tell us how accessible they are.
Or become a Community Engagement Volunteer and go out and about in the local area, talking to people about their experiences of local health and care services, or raising awareness of Healthwatch in public places or at events we attend.
And finally, you can be one of our Research Volunteers helping us with research, out in the community or online.
