Youthwatch Leeds Volunteer
1 month ago
**Healthwatch Leeds Volunteer Role Description**
**YouthWatch Leeds Volunteer**
**Purpose of the role**:
To help Healthwatch Leeds ensure that it listens, and learns from the voice and experience of children and young people.
**What you will be doing**:
You will be part of YouthWatch Leeds, a young people’s group that will help Healthwatch Leeds by:
- Helping to influence our work that aims to make health and social care services better for children and young people.
- Being involved in projects to gather views about children and young people’s experiences of health and social care services.
- Help advise Healthwatch Leeds and other services how they can be more ‘child and young people friendly’
- Acting as a role model for young people’s involvement by helping us talk to and listen to other children and young people
**Where**:
Meetings will be held in a city centre venue.
If meetings aren’t for you, you could just join our Facebook group and contribute virtually.
**When**:
YouthWatch Leeds will meet at least once every six weeks. Meetings will be held outside school/college hours eg. Evenings, weekends or school holidays. There will be other opportunities to volunteer in other activities between meetings.
**Time Commitment**:
Ongoing. Flexible time commitment to be agreed: minimum 2 hours/month
**What you need to be able to do**:
- Be aged 14-25 and live in the Leeds area
- Be patient and a good listener
- Able to challenge and disagree without being confrontational
- Be able to work as part of a team with other young people and/or Healthwatch Leeds workers
- Agree to the Healthwatch Leeds Code of Conduct.
- Able to represent the views and experiences of others, not just your own.
**Experience and knowledge**:
- Experience of having accepted responsibility and seeing things through
- Interested in people
- Personal experience of accessing different health and social care services would be useful
**Attitudes and Values**:
- Committed to children and young people having a say and being heard.
- Be non-judgemental
- Respect for those from a different background
**What’s in it for you?**
- Support and training from Healthwatch Leeds will be available to help you with this role.
- We’ll provide you a reference after 30 hours volunteering with us, and certificates for any training you do with us.
- It won’t cost you anything to volunteer, with us - we’ll pay your travel costs, and there will be refreshments/food at most of our meetings
**Job Type**: Volunteer
**Salary**: £0.01 per year
**Benefits**:
- Discounted or free food
- Free or subsidised travel
- Work from home
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: YWL VOL
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