Join our team - we have a vacancy for Healthwatch Somerset Manager

Hours: Up to 37 hours per week (minimum 30 hours)

Salary: £31,634 (pro rata) (Range: £31,634 - £36,384)

Location: Somerset - Homebased with regular travel across Somerset

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The Vacancy

Health and social care are continuously changing, with big shifts happening now in how services are designed and delivered. You will join us at an exciting time to ensure the independent public voice is heard, making sure those services work with and for people. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about making a difference to how health and social care services are delivered to the people of Somerset.  This is a challenging, exciting and varied role, line-managing a small team where your input really matters with an employer who is committed to flexible working.

Healthwatch is all about people - capturing the views of local people on their experiences of using services, taking this feedback to NHS leaders and other local decision-makers to improve care, now and in the future, to make a health and social care system that is made for and includes everyone.

In Somerset, the Healthwatch service is hosted by The Advocacy People, who would be your employer. The Advocacy People and Healthwatch share core values which are all about people’s voices: empowering people to speak up; amplifying service user voices; enabling people to participate in, and influence decision-making about health and social care; and provide information which helps people make informed decisions.

A bit about The Advocacy People

We are an independent, Human Rights based charity and one of the UK’s largest providers of advocacy, advocacy-related provision and Healthwatch services, who make sure people are heard when it matters most.

For more information about advocacy and what we do, please go to our website: www.theadvocacypeople.org.uk where you will also find information about our attractive benefits package on the Jobs Vacancies page.

About the role

In this exciting role you will be:

• Leading our feedback gathering activities to ensure that people’s views and experiences of health and social care are captured, listened to and taken account of by decision makers in Somerset at a key time of change and development.

• Developing and leading engagement activities and projects with a wide range of communities in Somerset including those seldom heard or marginalised.

• Line managing and enhancing the leadership of the local Healthwatch team.

You can find out more about the job and how to apply here: Healthwatch Somerset Manager : Up to 37 hours per week (minimum 30 hours)