Healthwatch Champion

**Position**: Healthwatch Champion

**Location**: Teignbridge, Devon

**Closing date**: 14 April 2023

**Role details**:
Job title: Healthwatch Champion

Location: Teignbridge, Devon

**Salary**: £25,654.00 per annum pro rata, plus 4% employer’s pension contribution

Salary pro rata: Yes

Hours per week: 15

Type of contract: Fixed term

End date of contract: 31st March 2024

Closing time: 12noon

We are pleased to be recruiting a Healthwatch Champion. Working as part of our Devon-wide health advice team, the project worker will provide specialist advice and support to clients facing issues with health or social care providers, taking referrals from the Contact Centre and other sources. There will be a focus on raising awareness of Healthwatch within the local office and the local community. Actively approaching and engaging with statutory and non-statutory healthcare providers and other community groups, the post holder will identify and feedback trends and issues in healthcare to the wider Healthwatch team. On the job support is provided by the Healthwatch Champion Coordinator, and the Healthwatch Project Manager. Based at Citizens Advice Teignbridge Newton Abbot office, travel within Teignbridge may be required.

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