- Healthwatch Wandsworth Committee Meeting
This is the meeting of our Healthwatch Committee in public. This will be a meeting to go through a number of agenda items relating to the Healthwatch Committee’s role in governance of Healthwatch Wandsworth. This is not an event to discuss health and social care topics with the community (we hold other events to do this).
The Healthwatch Committee’s role is to support strategic decisions on the direction of Healthwatch Wandsworth by supporting staff and volunteers and contributing to:
- good governance and decision making
- strategic planning
- risk assessment and policy development
- monitoring performance.
The Committee sits within the Wandsworth Care Alliance (WCA) governance structure and is locally accountable so that WCA is able to meet its corporate responsibilities and contractual duties and act lawfully at all times.
The Healthwatch Committee has eight voting members, four are WCA Trustees (of whom one is Chair), and four members are elected from among the Healthwatch Wandsworth membership. Elected Committee members are elected every three years. View this page for more information about Committee members.
What happens at the meeting
This meeting is in public and members of the public can attend online or in person. You will be able to watch the meeting and hear what is being said.
To attend online:
Register up until one working day before the meeting to let us know that they would like to attend this meeting. We will then send you details to attend by zoom and a copy of the agenda and papers.
You will be able to watch the meeting and hear what is being said. You will not be able to speak nor will you be seen using your computer camera.
Please note that we can’t guarantee the quality of audio and how well you might be able to hear.
To attend in person:
Please contact information@wandcareall.org.uk at least 3 working days before the meeting date.
- WCA Vacancy: Mental Health Projects Manager – Apply now!
Job Title: Mental Health Projects Manager
Duration: 35 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
Salary: c£32KWandsworth Care Alliance wish to recruit a new Manager for their Mental Health Projects.
Do you have the experience and skills in managing projects dealing with the complex issues of mental health service delivery and development?
Would you like to make a real difference as to how health and social care providers deliver the services that mental health service users in Wandsworth need?
As the Mental Health Projects Manager, you will attend meetings as a “critical friend” with commissioners and providers as well as organising and running mental health service user groups.
Find out more by reading our Role Description and Person Specification.
About us:
WCA is a small charity, with offices in the vibrant hub of Tooting. We are a friendly and diverse team focussing on supporting the voluntary sector within Wandsworth, improving health and social care, and championing patient and service user voices. If you enjoy flexible working, good training opportunities, and an open and inclusive culture, please get in touch.
To apply: email a completed application form with an optional supplementary CV to admin@wandcareall.org.uk
Application closing date: Midday Wednesday 15th June 2022
Interview dates: Interviews are likely on 28th and 29th June 2022. - New resource for Wandsworth to help refugees find local support
Over the last few months a number of Wandsworth Welcomes Refugees volunteers have been hard at work compiling a detailed directory that aims to help refugees, asylum seekers and resettled people find local support and facilities. It can also be used by others, including individuals or groups supporting displaced people, to find out more about the resources and services that exist, both at a local and national level. The latest version is available below.
This is a new resource that they’ll be updating on a rolling basis, so please let them know if you have any suggestions, including other organisations they should add: wandsworthwelcomesrefugees@gmail.com
- Two vacancies within the Voluntary Sector Coordination Service – Apply now!
Two vacancies are coming up within the Voluntary Sector Coordination Service (VSCS) at WCA: A new role for a Healthy Communities Project Officer (21 hours) and Maternity Cover for an Engagement Officer (25 hours) please see below for more information.
Voluntary Sector Coordination Service – Healthy Communities Project Officer
WCA is delivering a programme of community-based health messaging that seeks to address health inequalities in the borough whilst also empowering and building capacity within grassroots community organisations. We will do this through a grants programme offering short term funding to organisations working within Wandsworth to deliver health messaging, including COVID-19 vaccination, signposting, advocacy, and peer support through Community Champions recruited and managed by organisations in receipt of the grants.
These Community Champions will focus on delivering health messaging and increasing trust to help improve health and wellbeing in those communities most affected by health inequalities.
We are looking for a part-time Healthy Communities Project Officer to help us achieve this. You will manage the whole grants programme – from helping groups to apply to evaluating the projects to developing sustainability strategies where appropriate. You will also bring grantees together to share experiences as well as liaising with other organisations within the borough delivering similar projects, including statutory partners, to ensure learning is disseminated widely.
Hours: 21 hours per week (open to negotiation and flexibility)
Fixed term contract initially for 1 year
Pay: £29,000 per annum pro rata
Closing date: Monday 30 May 2022.
Interviews will be held: Tuesday 7 June 2022
Job Description and Person Specification
To express your interese this role, in the first instance, please send your CV and a supporting statement (no more that 2 sides of A4) to Julie Bristow: julie@wandcareall.org.ukVoluntary Sector Coordination Service – Engagement Officer (Maternity Cover)
WCA has a contract to deliver support to the voluntary sector in Wandsworth which includes: providing information, convening and running networks, capacity building, and organisational development support.
We are now seeking to recruit a part-time Engagement Officer from July 2022 for 25 hours per week to cover maternity leave for the current postholder. This will be a fixed term contract for nine months with a possible extension to one year.
You will have experience of working with a diverse range of communities, of developing and delivering approaches that engage communities, be an excellent communicator, and able to build relationships.
Hours: 25 hours per week (open to negotiation and flexibility)
Fixed term contract initially for nine months with possible extension to 1 year
Pay: £19,285 pro rata (c£27,000 per annum)
Closing date: Monday 6 June 2022
Interviews will be held: Tuesday 13 June 2022
Job Description and Person Specification
To express your interese this role, in the first instance, please send your CV and a supporting statement (no more that 2 sides of A4) to Julie Bristow: julie@wandcareall.org.uk - WCA – AGM featuring Wandsworth State of the Sector Report
Date: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Location: St Peter’s Centre, 31 Winstanley Rd, London SW11 2EZJoin us for WCA’s AGM featuring the launch of our State of the Sector 2022 report which will provide a valuable insight into the voluntary and community sector in Wandsworth. Many of you have contributed to this work and we look forward to sharing it with you.
There’ll be a a delicious lunch with ample opportunity for networking and to find out more about what we are all doing, including Voluntary Sector Coordination Service, Healthwatch Wandsworth and our mental health projects, Voicing Views and LGTQ+ Mental Health.
We look forward to seeing you there!
