Community Connector | Healthwatch Kingston upon Hull

Become a Community Connector

As a community connector, you can help young people have their voices heard and be directly involved in making a difference for communities by letting us know about the experiences and issues young people have when accessing health and social care services.

Your involvement will help us to raise issues and concerns with those who have the power to make change happen.

How you can help us find out what matters

Community connectors will support local Healthwatch to tackle health inequalities. Health inequalities are the differences in the status of people’s health, but also the care that people receive and the opportunities that they have to lead healthy lives.

NHS England have identified five clinical areas that require improvement to reduce health inequalities in children and young people. This is called Core20PLUS5. Community connectors will listen to anyone’s experiences of health and social care services but there will be a focus on gathering feedback from people who have experience with the 5 key clinical areas, these are:

Asthma
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Oral health
Mental health

How can you gather views

Community connectors will be supported to engage with other young people in a number of ways, including:

Planned engagement activities with other community connectors and Healthwatch staff.
Talking to and gathering the views of the public and reporting back to Healthwatch.
Helping to conduct surveys and consultations in the local community.
Produce written case studies to highlight people’s experiences.
Promote the ‘Young people’s experience of health’ survey with other young people.

Where do we want to reach?

The Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership

The feedback gathered by our community connectors will be used to shape and improve care for other young people.

Healthwatch are looking to hear the views of people in York, North Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire, Kingston upon Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire.

How you can get involved

We want to recruit young people aged 14 – 25 years to speak with other young people around their experiences of accessing health and social care, any barriers they may have faced and any solutions they may recommend.

For more information, or an informal chat, please contact us:

Telephone: 01482 595504

Email: enquiries@healthwatchkingstonuponhull.co.uk

If you would like to complete our Young People’s Experience of Health survey, without becoming a Community Connector, you can do so by following and completing the following link:

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/XZXCYH/

Please read the role description for a Community Connector Volunteer and fill in the below application form.

Name(Required)

Date of birth(Required)

Home address(Required)

Telephone Number(Required)

Are you over the age of 18?(Required)

Yes

Emergency Contact Name(Required)

Emergency Contact Telephone number(Required)

Emergency Contact Email

Reasonable adjustments

Please let us know of any reasonable adjustments required to allow you to become a community connector

Why are you interested in becoming a community connector?

Signature(Required)

Parent / Guardian

Name of parent / guardian(Required)

Parent / guardian date of birth(Required)

Parent / guardian telephone number(Required)

Parent / guardian email(Required)

Does the young volunteer have any medical conditions you think we should be aware of?

Please note:

By completing this form, you are confirming that you understand it is your responsibility to inform Healthwatch Kingston upon Hull of any changes in your child’s health and general well-being, or fitness to perform the tasks expected of them. Furthermore, you are aware of the tasks that your child will be given, and you give your permission for them to volunteer for Healthwatch Kingston upon Hull

Declaration

‘I am aware the named volunteer above has applied to become a volunteer at Healthwatch Kingston upon Hull. I can confirm:

The young person named above is over 14 years old

I am the parent/guardian of the named young person

I give my consent for them to become a volunteer at Healthwatch Kingston upon Hull

Parents and/or Guardian of under 16s

As the parent/guardian, it is my responsibility to ensure the young person complies to the Child & Young Person’s Act 1993. I understand about the young person’s working hours, which includes any volunteering hours the named Young Person does outside of Healthwatch Kingston upon Hull. The supervisor will be notified of any hours worked or volunteered outside of Healthwatch Kingston upon Hull and ensure the named Young Person is compliant with the Child & Young Person’s Act 1993.’

Please tick the box to confirm you have read, understood and that you agree with the above declaration.

I have read, understood and agree with the below declaration.

Signature(Required)

Date(Required)