Healthwatch Rochdale are looking for Board members – could you be the person we are looking for?
Healthwatch Rochdale are recruiting Board members who could add their valuable skills and experiences to our voluntary Board of directors. We are looking for people who have knowledge or experience of health and social care and are committed to making a difference to services working in an inclusive and equitable way.
Joining the Healthwatch Rochdale Board provides a great opportunity to help make a real difference in Rochdale, helping to deliver service improvements, influence local development, and ensuring the benefits for communities by representing the diverse views of Rochdale patients, service users and carers that we gather through the feedback we receive. Your role will be to help guide the work that we do.
This role is voluntary, but we can pay out of pocket expenses and we can also make reasonable adjustments where necessary.
At Healthwatch Rochdale we value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are keen to encourage applications from within Rochdale’s grass roots communities who are currently underrepresented on our Board.
We are looking for people that can give us insight from working with, or lived experience of, the following areas of representation, who may have professional experience of the following skill areas or have specific knowledge of areas of work we cover.
If any of the following apply to you, then you might be a good fit and we would like to hear from you.
Areas for representation:
- Disability
- Carers
- Ethnic minorities
- Young people
- Older people
- LGBTQI+
- Families
- Mental health
- domiciliary care or residential/nursing home services
- People classed as vulnerable (including homeless or those suffering addiction)
- Chronic illness/Long Term health conditions
- The working localities of the Rochdale Borough
Knowledge:
- Patient experts
- Lived Experiences
- System experts (NHS & Social care)
- Support services/partners
- Research
- Social Value
- Impact
- Health Inequalities
Skills:
- Digital
- Partnership working
- Funding/grant application
- Engagement
- Research
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Are you interested in joining our board?
Download our application form below and email it back to info@healthwatchrochdale.org.uk
If you have any questions about the role feel free to email us on the above email address or call us on 01706 249575
