Our Volunteer Roles
Community engagement & Outreach volunteer
Healthwatch Kirklees needs you to be our eyes and ears in the community. We’re recruiting ‘Community engagement & outreach volunteers’ to make sure we are finding out as much about public opinion as we can. We need volunteers to go out in to their communities and talk to their family and friends to gather comments about their experience of using health and social care services. We want to hear about things that are good and things which could work better.
This role is very flexible and involves supporting staff members out in the community.
If you think that you might be interested in doing this, then please check out the role description below:
click here to download the role description pdf
Online Feedback Collector
As an online feedback collector, your role will be to collect feedback about people’s experiences of health and social care services that has been left online.
This role is volunteering from home
Download the role description below. For more information, contact Katherine Sharp, Volunteering and Engagement Officer (Enter and View Lead) on 01924 450379 or email katherine.sharp@healthwatchkirklees.co.uk
Volunteer-Role-Description-Online-feedback-collector
Enter and View Volunteer (Authorised Representative) -Not currently recruiting for this role
Healthwatch Kirklees have a legal right to carry out Enter & View visits to any publicly funded health or social care service. This includes residential/nursing homes, day care services, GP practices and hospital wards.
We recruit and train Authorised Representatives (Enter and View volunteers) who will carry out the Enter and View visits with staff on behalf of Healthwatch Kirklees. The Authorised Representatives spend time talking to people who use and work in the service they are visiting, then write a report with recommendations where required. Authorised Representatives are fully supported by staff from the Healthwatch Kirklees team.
Download the role description below:
Volunteer Role Description – Enter and view
Then return to Katherine Sharp, Volunteering and Engagement Officer (Enter and View Lead) katherine.sharp@healthwatchkirklees.co.uk
If you wish to speak to us about this role please get in touch on 01924 450379 or email