Community Health Champions
Volunteer Centre Hackney
Would you like to improve the health and wellbeing of City and Hackney residents? Join the friendly Community Health Champions network! The role is flexible and involves sharing key health messages and raising awareness of local services and activities with residents. Opportunity to engage in discussions with health professionals, whilst sharing insights and priorities from residents to improve local services.
Help improve the health and wellbeing of City and Hackney residents by giving a voice to diverse communities and encouraging access and engagement with credible health information and support. How? • By ensuring residents’ views are listened to and acted upon across the health system • By accessing the most up to date health information, advice and local services from trusted sources We are looking for volunteers who live, work, volunteer or study in City or Hackney and would like to join our friendly team of Community Health Champions. The role is flexible: you can choose your level of involvement depending on your situation and interests. Some of the recent health topics we have supported include diabetes, high blood pressure, healthy lifestyles, mental health, cancer awareness, childhood immunisations and other factors impacting health and wellbeing such as cost of living crisis, housing etc Community Health Champion role The programme is lead by Volunteer Centre Hackney, in partnership with the City & Hackney Public Health Team. We provide: • Induction and NHS-endorsed training on how to approach and manage communications around specific health topics • Scheduled online sessions to share the latest public health updates and engage in discussions with healthcare professionals • Newsletters, online resources and email/’phone contact points Your role: • Share health and local services information with your community. This could be face to face to friends, colleagues, neighbours, community groups; or by email, WhatsApp, social media etc, or you could even hold an event like a coffee morning to spread the word – the choice is yours • Feedback insights sourced from local residents regarding health issues, barriers to accessing information/support and what’s working well – either at meetings, by email or by phone • Option to get involved to help design materials and future services We tailor the role to your needs… • If you get busy or have other demands on your time…you can join in when you can • If you don’t have a big network of people to share the information with, it’s more important to reach the people who need it most
Support Work,Advice, Information & Support,Community Work
Basic IT skills - internet & email, Reading & Writing
Do you need any key skills? An interest in keeping residents safe and well by sharing information, resources and signposting people to local information /resources in relation to various health and well-being topics. Be able to support the aims of the programme and talk about it in a positive way. Respect other people’s cultures and values. An email address is currently a requirement, but please do get in touch even if you don’t have one and we will work with you to enable access. If you do speak another language apart from English, please let us know as it would help us reach the diverse population of City & Hackney. This is not a requirement.
• Make a positive impact to your local community and feel more connected • Learn more about a wide variety of health topics from trusted sources, which may support your own personal networks as well as the wider community. • Become more familiar with health support services available locally and nationally. • Work as a team. You’ll join a collaborative group of 200+ City & Hackney Community Champions, many are part of voluntary or charity organisations – so there’s lots of opportunity for connecting/sharing ideas and information. • Opportunity to collaborate with healthcare professionals; engaging in Q&A, receiving specialist/credible information and opportunity to provide insights to inform programme delivery. • We can also work together on how we can respond to any barriers to health engagement • Opportunity to boost your confidence, skills and knowledge from our core training package and access to wider opportunities. • There will be opportunities for you to develop community projects yourself – if you have an idea about something which will improve health and wellbeing for people in your neighbourhood there may be funding and assistance to help you.
A suggestion of 1-2hrs per week, but this is ENTIRELY flexible, depending on your capacity/areas of interest/community needs.
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