Healthwatch Walsall Community Outreach Lead

Healthwatch Walsall

Job Title: Community Outreach Lead

Working pattern: Full time - 37 hours per week flexible, but will include some evening and weekend work.

Salary: £24,150 per annum pro-rata.

Fixed Term until end of May 2024

• Want to make a real difference for your community?
• Concerned about NHS Health services or social care services?
• Do you feel that peoples voices aren’t heard regarding the problems their communities face?

If yes to any of these then this is the role for you.

Healthwatch Walsall is the local health and social care champion for the people of Walsall. We make sure that NHS leaders and other decision makers hear peoples’ voices about the services and care they receive. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, experienced and self-motivated individual to be our Community Outreach Lead in Walsall. The individual will work flexibly from both the home base and the Healthwatch Walsall office, with the need to travel extensively across the Borough. The successful individual will work closely with the Healthwatch Walsall team to ensure that the views of Walsall people from all communities about NHS services, children’s and adults social care are captured and recorded.

The role entails meeting people, often going to where people are naturally around in their day to day lives and striking up conversations to find about peoples experiences. If you are comfortable doing that then this is the role for you.

The successful candidate will need to be flexible, adaptive and motivated to ensure that all sections of the public, including those whose voices are seldom heard can have their voice heard through different methods.

To arrange an informal discussion about the role, please contact Aileen Farrer on aileen.farrer@healthwatchwalsall.co.ukor by telephone 07732 683495

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How to Apply

If you wish to apply you must download all the following forms from https://www.healthwatchwalsall.co.uk/work-us and follow the instructions - applications will not be accepted by any other means:

• Guidance notes for Application Form
• Application Form
• Job Description and Person Specification
• Self-Declaration Form
• Safeguarding Statement
• Applicants Data Privacy Statement

Please return all the competed forms to the email address on the application form.

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Please note that we place a great deal of importance on the security and privacy of all personal information in our possession and during your application we will provide you with our Applicant Privacy Notice for your consent to manage and retain your data as stated in the Applicant Privacy Notice. There are two copies of this form – one for you to keep and one to sign and return to us indicating you are giving us permission to hold your data during the recruitment process.

No agency phone calls and/or telephone or email enquiries.

ECS is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from any individual regardless of ethnic origin, gender, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. All applications will be considered on merit.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Closing date: 18 June 2023

Interview date: 27 June 2023

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 11 months

Salary: £24,150.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Flexitime
• Paid volunteer time
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Experience:

• community engagement techniques: 1 year (required)
• written and interpersonal skills: 1 year (required)
• working with communities whose voice is seldom heard: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 18/06/2023