Current Volunteer Roles
Here are the volunteer roles that we are recruiting for at the moment, and you can apply using the online application form at the end, or download a form to email or post in.
Volunteer Roles
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.
What can I do as a volunteer?
We have a variety of roles to suit, depending on your personal interests and how much you want to get involved. Some roles offer a regular schedule while others are project based and will vary.
Homecare Check
Our Homecare Check volunteers interview people receiving home care from local providers, speaking to residents and their families about their experience and the quality of service they receive. We report that feedback to the Brighton & Hove City Council who use it to ensure the service providers maintain a high quality of care, as well as assess if the residents home care provision needs to be reviewed.
We also use the opportunity to do a wellbeing check and see if residents have any other concerns they need help with, and can refer to other community support services if needed.
Meeting Representative
Meeting Representatives are the patient's voice at health and social care committees and board meetings across the city. Your role would be to attend meetings and committees, where issues are discussed and decisions often made that greatly affect the people of this city.
You would represent them, taking note of issues discussed, asking questions if needed, and then feedback to us to report on.
We have paused onboarding for new Meeting Representative volunteers but will relaunch recruitment later this summer.
Enter & View
Enter & View volunteers are official Authorised Representatives. Your role would be to visit local health and social care services to see how service are being provided, what is being done really well and what could be better.
You would make observations, speak to service users, patients, their families and carers and staff, and feedback your findings for us to report on.
We have paused onboarding for new Enter & View volunteers but will relaunch recruitment later this summer.
Support Volunteer
Support Volunteers provide invaluable help to our small staff team with a variety of administrative, comms, and research tasks, helping us deliver essential health and social care projects and ensure the views of patients are represented locally and nationally.
We have paused onboarding for new Support volunteers but will relaunch recruitment later this summer.
Meet our volunteers
Meet our volunteer - Paul
'I have been working on the Hospital Discharge project since January 2021 and simply enjoy speaking to people.'
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Meet our volunteer - Mazzie
"Since joining, I have had the privilege of meeting a wide range of people who rely on social care. Meeting people in their own homes has blown away any preconceptions and given me a whole new perspective of 'old' and 'vulnerable'."
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Meet our volunteer - Nick
"While retired I really wanted a volunteer role that would allow enable me to use my knowledge and experiences, but also act on behalf of patients."
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Meet our volunteer - Lynne
"I have been involved in a variety of research projects, but the one I get a real kick out of are the hospital visits. This gives me a great sense of achievement, as a volunteer."
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Volunteer Application Form
Apply to become a Healthwatch volunteer using our online application form below, or download a copy to send in to us via email or post.
Other than for Homecare Check, we have momentarily paused onboarding for new volunteers but will relaunch recruitment later this summer. For now, please only apply if you are interested in volunteering as part of our Homecare Check team.