Exciting Opportunity: Join us as Chair of our Advisory Board
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to lead the way as the Chair of our Healthwatch Advisory Board.
The role attracts an honorarium of £4000 p.a. in recognition of your time commitment.
It’s an important time to be involved with Healthwatch Halton and this is a great opportunity for someone who wants to champion the patient voice in how Halton’s health and social care services are planned and delivered.
Purpose of the role
As Chair you will lead and work with the Healthwatch Advisory Board (HAB) in setting the strategic plan and work programme for Healthwatch Halton, leading and ensuring the service lives up to its shared vision, aims, and values.
In addition to attending and leading formal board meetings, the Chair will ensure that the service’s strategic direction is clearly communicated and provide support and advice to the staff and management team.
The Chair will:
- Be responsible for supporting the Advisory Board to agree the Healthwatch Halton annual work programme and have subsequent oversight ensuring local people’s voices are heard in NHS health and social care.
- Be a key spokesperson for Healthwatch Halton and have the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to be perceived by partners and the public as a credible figurehead for a professional, responsive and evidence-based organisation.
- Lead the Advisory Board in supporting Healthwatch Halton to enable all people and communities in Halton to have their voices heard.
- Promote volunteering and the opportunities it brings to enable people to make a difference within their own communities.
- Ensure they and the other Advisory Board Members, staff team and volunteers operate in line with Healthwatch values.
- Be an active ambassador for Healthwatch Halton across the borough.
Commitment and remuneration
We anticipate the time commitment will be approximately four to five days per month. An honorarium of £4,000 pa for the role will be paid in recognition of the time commitment. All remuneration is taxable and subject to Class 1 NI contributions, but it is not pensionable. Reasonable out of pocket expenses will also be reimbursed in line with organisational policy.
Who can apply:
You need to be 18 or above and live, work or study, within the boundary of Halton or have strong demonstrable links to the borough and a commitment to the people of Halton.
Interested?
If you are interested in applying for this role you can complete the online form below, or download and complete the application pack. Please refer to the recruitment pack and role specification when filling in your application.
Download the Chair recruitment pack
For full details of the role including your responsibilities and tasks and a person specification, download the recruitment pack below.
If you require the pack in another format, please email enquiries@healthwatchhalton.co.uk or call 0300 777 6543.
For an informal chat about the role, contact our Chief Officer, Dave Wilson, via email, dave.wilson@healthwatchhalton.co.uk or call 07732 683477.
Closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Thursday 30 November 2023.
This work is diverse and interesting, you will use many skills as Chair of the Healthwatch Halton Board and give invaluable support to our local community.
Outgoing chair, Kath Parker, was appointed in 2018 and stepped down recently after making a hugely valuable contribution over the past 5 years.
Of her time as Healthwatch Halton Chair, Kath says:
“Since July 2018 I have undertaken the role of Healthwatch Halton Advisory Board Chair and during that time have gained a huge amount of knowledge about how Healthwatch and the local Health System work, ensuring that local people’s views are fed into that system.
The work of Healthwatch Halton is vital in feeding those views to commissioners and providers of services, in order that they improve, in ways which are important to the public.
Being Chair of the HAB has meant hearing from a wide range of local people and organisations what they feel is important when accessing services. It is then the job of the Chair and the Board to get these views to the right people with the help and skill of Healthwatch staff ensuring that they respond to the views that have been voiced and services change as a result.
This work is diverse and interesting, you will use many skills as Chair of the Healthwatch Halton Board and give invaluable support to our local community.”
