Do you have an interest in local health and social care issues, and want to drive change across Wokingham Borough for all residents?
Local Healthwatch have a legal power to enter and view health and social care services owned or controlled by local health and social care providers.
We are looking for Enter and View Representatives to join our team. As part of a small group of trained volunteers, you will observe and assess the service being provided, talk with service staff, service users and their families or carers.
You will contribute to a group report about findings and recommendations. This report will become a public document and you may also need to follow up on suggested recommendations.
We are also looking for Community Engagement Volunteers.
You will play a vital role in ensuring that people across Wokingham Borough are engaged, listened to, and provided with an avenue to share their views and experiences of local health and social care services.
The role will involve reaching out to different communities across the borough, planning engagement activities with other volunteers and Healthwatch staff, holding engagement and information stands at community events and areas, such as GP surgeries, libraries, and hospitals and talking to and gather the views of local people reporting back to Healthwatch staff.
We value and promote equality, diversity and inclusion and would like our volunteering team to reflect the Wokingham Borough communities, particularly groups who are often under-represented and/or have lived experience of using health and social care services.
We promote a family friendly and flexible volunteering environment.
We ask for a minimum commitment of two hours per week/eight hours per month – days/times can be flexible and vary from week-to-week.
The Wokingham Volunteer Centre is a registered charity that works with and places volunteers in a wide range of community, voluntary and charitable groups across the borough.
We work with, and support, groups and organisations that require volunteers (including providing training).
We promote the benefits of volunteering to the local community and run a number of schemes including the Wokingham Transport Scheme and the Green ‘n’ Tidy community gardening service.
The Trustees of Wokingham Volunteer Centre need a volunteer to take minutes at their monthly meetings.
These take place once a month on Monday mornings, last no longer than two hours and are held at our offices in the Community and Charity Hub in Wokingham Town Centre.
After the meetings, the role includes writing up the minutes and circulating to the board.
Key skills for this invaluable role are attention to detail, an interest in the work of the Volunteer Centre and an appreciation of the need for confidentiality.
Cranstoun Drug and Alcohol Service provides advice, information support to all Wokingham residents around drug and alcohol use.
Our aim is to empower people to make healthy decisions which minimise harm to themselves and those around them.
We are looking for someone with good attention to detail to help us enter details from client assessment paperwork into our database.
You will need to be IT literate but full training on the systems will be provided.
You will be dealing with sensitive, sometimes challenging information and full support will be available in the form of regular meetings with managers to discuss anything you have found difficult.
This is not a client-facing role so there will no direct contact with service users.
These are just a few roles on our books. Please visit our website www.volunteerwokinghamborough.org.uk to find out more about volunteering and have a look at all the roles we have to offer. If you would like to get in touch with us, please call 0118 977 0749 or email volunteer@wok-vol.org.uk.
