Community Engagement Officer

4 weeks ago


Greater London, United Kingdom Healthwatch Southwark Full time

Job description

If you want to help champion the voice of patients in Southwark and help improve health and care services in the area, we would like to hear from you

Healthwatch Southwark is recruiting for a **Community Engagement **Officer.**

**We are looking to recruit people with the following characteristics**:

- _Proactive in gathering and using community/patient feedback to influence/shape local health and social care services._
- _Determined about getting local peoples voices being heard by health and social care stakeholders of influence and decision makers_.
- _Enthusiastic about getting local people involved in local health and social care decision making structures /bodies._
- _Passionate about helping local people to access health and social care services._

Community Engagement Officer
- **Salary**:£27,000 per annum (depending on experience, there is possibility of starting at a higher starting grade)
- **Hours of work**: 35 per week (including occasional evenings and weekends)
- **Contract**: 1 year initially, then fixed term until 31 March 2026.
- **Benefits**: 30 days holiday (exclusive of public/bank holidays) per annum, Flexible working, Pension-Employer contribution: 5%.
- **Closing Date: 5th January 2023, 5pm.**

Purpose of the role/job description
- To build awareness and trust of Healthwatch Southwark (HWS) among diverse residents of Southwark, developing a solid base for the gathering of feedback and intelligence about people’s experiences of health and social care.
- To work with volunteers and with local voluntary and community organisations in order to reach more people and to highlight inequalities.
- To lead on the provision of signposting and information on local health and care services to local people
- To coordinate and engage local people in projects and events to investigate a wide range of different areas of health and social care, drawing out their views and experiences, and to lead on events and Enter and View visits.
- To promote and support the involvement of patients and service users in the design, provision and scrutiny of local health and care services.
- As part of the HWS team, to act as critical friend to commissioners and providers of services to help bring about improvement



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