Impact Assistant Volunteer – Guidance and role profile
Healthwatch are increasingly focussing on planning for, identifying and communicating outcomes and impact achieved for people who use health and care services. This contributes to ensuring your organisation's financial stability and increases support from members of the community.
About this resource
Recruiting a volunteer to take on responsibilities relating to monitoring outcomes can help give this work a greater profile within your Healthwatch. In particular, the role could provide additional capacity to update the Impact Tracker and liaise with other team members to check on how different areas of work and opportunities to influence are progressing.
This document provides guidance and tips on introducing an Impact Assistant volunteer role. It includes a suggested role profile.
The profile for this role has been developed so that it can be adapted to meet your specific local needs. Create your own role description by using whichever of the listed activities you feel will be most useful for your team.
In a competitive volunteering marketplace, Impact Assistant could be an attractive and unique volunteering role for the right person.
Link to other resources
This guidance and role profile is an addition to our other volunteer role descriptions, which are available for you to use and adapt.