Lead for Public Engagement and Research
You will develop and lead Healthwatch activities in South Gloucestershire. You will be a problem-solving, initiative-taker. You will co-ordinate projects and use coproduction to ensure that engagement empowers communities and involves people with lived experience. You will compile qualitative and quantitative data using online platforms such as Smart Survey.
The post-holder will be part of a wider team who provide expertise in engagement, particularly listening to the views of those with protected characteristics, and who experience poorer health and social care outcomes. Our remit is to be a bridge between people who use public services and those who commission and provide services locally.
You will enjoy networking with partner agencies, managing a range of relationships, co-operating with national bodies such as with NHS England/Improvement in the Southwest, nationally with Healthwatch England our umbrella body and with regulators such as the Care Quality Commission.