Volunteer with us

Volunteers play a vital role in supporting us to talk to people in Southwark about their experiences of using health and social care services in the borough.

Our enter and view volunteers

See a list of our current enter and view representatives and our other volunteers here. 

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Volunteer case studies

Read stories from our own volunteers and find out why they enjoying helping Healthwatch and how they make a difference for people in the community. 

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Help us 'Enter and View'

Become an authorised Enter and View Representative 

As a local Healthwatch, we have special legal powers to 'Enter and View' local health and social care services.

This means we can enter and view all publicly funded health and social care services premises and speak to those using the services about their experience and how the service is working to speak to people about their experiences. 

As an Authorised Enter and View Volunteer, you can help us conduct these visits and spend time talking to patients, carers and relatives as well as helping us report back on our findings. 

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Other opportunities:

Become a Community Health Ambassador 

Join the Community Health Ambassadors Network to help inform, empower and support your community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide Ambassadors with accurate information about COVID-19 and related issues and encourage Ambassadors to provide feedback about barriers and challenges their community is facing.

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Current opportunities


Community Engagement and Signposting Volunteer 

A Community Engagement and Signposting volunteer will support our engagement activities (i.e. events, outreach, workshops) in the community and help support the Southwark community to access local health and social care services.

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Content & Resource Volunteer (Ambassadors Network) 

You will be working alongside a diverse network of Ambassadors, supporting hard to reach and vulnerable communities stay safe and informed during the pandemic. You will be part of a project at the forefront of the Council's coronavirus outbreak prevention work.

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Are you interested in becoming an Advisory Board Member?  

We are currently recruiting 5 new board members.  

If you would like to join our Advisory Board, please click below for further information.  

Application form Join our Advisory Board leaflet 1 Join our Advisory Board leaflet 2

Other ways to get involved with us

We also have various ways you can support our work or get involved with us in the interim. 

Please refer to our volunteering page for more information.

Find out how to apply

Representing Healthwatch Southwark at a mental health and wellbeing event gave me the opportunity to meet and interact with service users and professionals from different organisations in the borough.