We currently have five job vacancies. Find out more below.
Social Prescribing Link Worker
Hours of work: Part time 1.5 days per week (11.25 hours)
Annual Leave: 25 days per annum FTE (plus bank holidays) – pro rata for part time
Salary: £30,090 – £30,385 per annum FTE (inclusive of £500 expenses) – pro rata for part time
Period: Fixed-term until 31st March 2026, with possibility of extension
Based: London Borough of Haringey
The Role
These are innovative roles to develop social prescribing in the local NHS. Based in one of the six Primary Care Networks (PCN) you will work in different GP practices across that Network to deliver their specific priorities. You will join a team of ten Social Prescribing Link Workers working in Haringey PCNs and be part of a wider community-based Borough team which offers information, signposting and short-term support across the eight localities in Haringey.
Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to non-medical Social Prescribing Link Workers, who give time, focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.
Social prescribing can help to strengthen community resilience and personal resilience and reduces health inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity, by increasing people’s active involvement with their local communities. It particularly works for people with long-term conditions (including support for mental health), for people who are lonely or isolated, or have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.
At the centre of the social prescribing process is the Social Prescribing Link Worker, working with GP Practices in a Primary Care Network, who connects patients who are referred to a range of activities and services in the local area depending on their needs, interests and capacity for engagement. This is a complex role as the SPLW will need to have good interpersonal skills to engage with the patient and have a comprehensive knowledge of the services and activities available in the local area.
About you
A strong background in health or social care, or experience working with vulnerable or isolated people, is essential, along with familiarity with urban, multicultural communities. The role requires a non-judgmental, positive approach and the ability to follow clear processes when accepting referrals, assessing individuals, developing action plans, and carrying out follow-ups. Excellent communication skills are key, including the ability to negotiate, build relationships, advocate for others, and inspire colleagues and service users. Sensitivity to the needs of individuals and communities considered hard to reach is important, as is the ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders through strong social and listening skills. The ideal candidate will be driven, target-focused, highly motivated, resilient, and confident, capable of working in a busy GP practice environment and promoting the service to health professionals. They should be passionate about improving health and wellbeing, with good IT skills and experience using databases or CRM systems.
How to apply
Please download the Recruitment Pack and Monitoring Form. You’ll need to send us your CV, a personal statement of no more than two sides of A4 explaining how you meet the person specification for the role, and a completed monitoring form.
Deadline: Friday 28th November 2025.
If you require the recruitment pack in an alternative format, please call 020 3196 1900.
Download Link Worker Recruitment Pack
Research and Engagement Officer (Healthwatch Croydon)
Salary: £29,000 to £31,000 per annum, dependent on experience (+3% pension contribution)
Working hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week (5 days per week)
Contract length: Permanent
Reports to: Healthwatch Croydon Manager
Based: Hybrid working (regular time spent in the Croydon community)
The Role
The Research and Engagement Officer will report to, and support, the Healthwatch Croydon Manager. They will:
- Deliver research projects – including planning logistics, designing methodology and analysing quantitative and qualitative data.
- Report findings through presentations and written reports throughout the year.
- Lead on organising projects, ensuring that actions are followed up, prioritising effectively and providing relevant outputs.
- Deliver a regular programme of Croydon-based outreach and events.
- Onboard, support and manage volunteers, working with our team of volunteers to deliver research and associated activities.
- Undertake policy reviews and provide advice on research and evaluation methodology to the Research Director, Healthwatch Croydon Manager and other members of the Public Voice team.
- Work with Public Voice teams to capture issues relating to the delivery of services or gaps in policies. Use this information to identify common themes which relate to service design and health and social care policy.
- Engage effectively with seldom-heard communities.
About You
We are seeking a candidate with proven research experience, including the ability to interpret and analyse data and present solutions. You will have a keen interest in health and social care and the ability to write clear, concise policy reviews. You will also have a flair for programme and project management, and be skilled in organising tasks, logistics and administrative systems.
The successful applicant will value equality, diversity and inclusion, and will be enthusiastic about promoting these principles in their work. They will have warmth, empathy and respect for others, alongside the ability to effectively engage seldom-heard communities.
How to apply
Please download the Recruitment Pack and Monitoring Form. You’ll need to send us your CV, a personal statement of no more than two sides of A4 explaining how you meet the person specification for the role, and a completed monitoring form.
Deadline: Friday 28th November 2025.
If you require the recruitment pack in an alternative format, please call 020 3196 1900.
Download Research and Engagement Officer (Healthwatch Croydon) Application Pack
Download Public Voice Monitoring Form
Research and Engagement Officer (Healthwatch Barnet)
Salary: £29,000 to £31,000 per annum, dependent on experience (+3% pension contribution)
Working hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week (5 days per week)
Contract length: Permanent
Reports to: Healthwatch Barnet Manager
Based: Hybrid working (regular time spent in the Barnet community)
The Role
The Research and Engagement Officer will report to, and support, the Healthwatch Barnet Manager. They will:
- Deliver research projects – including planning logistics, designing methodology and analysing quantitative and qualitative data.
- Report findings through presentations and written reports throughout the year.
- Lead on organising projects, ensuring that actions are followed up, prioritising effectively and providing relevant outputs.
- Deliver a regular programme of Barnet-based outreach and events.
- Onboard, support and manage volunteers, working with our team of volunteers to deliver research and associated activities.
- Undertake policy reviews and provide advice on research and evaluation methodology to the Research Director, Healthwatch Barnet Manager and other members of the Public Voice team.
- Work with Public Voice teams to capture issues relating to the delivery of services or gaps in policies. Use this information to identify common themes which relate to service design and health and social care policy.
- Engage effectively with seldom-heard communities in Barnet.
About you
We are seeking a candidate with proven research experience, including the ability to interpret and analyse data and present solutions. You will have a keen interest in health and social care and the ability to write clear, concise policy reviews. You will also have a flair for programme and project management, and be skilled in organising tasks, logistics and administrative systems.
The successful applicant will value equality, diversity and inclusion, and will be enthusiastic about promoting these principles in their work. They will have warmth, empathy and respect for others, alongside the ability to effectively engage seldom-heard communities in Barnet.
How to apply
Please download the Recruitment Pack and Monitoring Form. You’ll need to send us your CV, a personal statement of no more than two sides of A4 explaining how you meet the person specification for the role, and a completed monitoring form.
Deadline: Friday 28th November 2025.
If you require the recruitment pack in an alternative format, please call 020 3196 1900.
Download Research and Engagement Officer (Healthwatch Barnet) Application Pack
Download Public Voice Monitoring Form
Research Manager, Healthwatch Hounslow
Salary: £34,000 to £36,000 (depending on experience) per annum +3% pension contribution
Working hours: Full-time 37.5 hours per week (5 days per week)
Contract length: Permanent
Reports to: Research Director
Based: Hybrid working (regular time spent in the Hounslow community)
The role
To lead the management and delivery of the statutory functions of a local Healthwatch, which consist of:
- Obtaining the views of people about their needs and experience of local health and social care services. Local Healthwatch make these views known to those involved in the commissioning and scrutiny of care services.
- Making reports, and making recommendations about how services could or should be improved.
- Promoting and supporting the involvement of people in the monitoring, commissioning and provision of local health and social care services.
- Providing information and advice to the public about accessing health and social care services and the options available to them.
- Making the views and experiences of people known to Healthwatch England, helping it carry out its role as national champion.
- Making recommendations to national bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission, to carry out special reviews or investigations into areas of concern.
About You
The Research Manager at Healthwatch Hounslow will be an experienced manager of community-focused projects or programmes.
You will be comfortable with all aspects of research – from scoping, to desk research, to fieldwork, to analysis and writing reports. You will be a clear and confident communicator, whether producing concise, engaging content such as reports, or presenting/speaking in meetings or at events.
We are looking for someone who understands and has experience of creatively engaging diverse groups and communities – particularly seldom heard and underserved groups. Ideally you will be familiar with and an advocate for the principles and practices of co-production and public involvement.
The Research Manager will enjoy engaging with a wide variety of people – from hearing residents’ views and experiences of services, to influencing senior commissioners or providers of health services to make changes and improvements.
You will have a keen interest in Health and Social Care; and a passion to ensure that local people in the community are heard, and health inequalities are addressed.
How to apply
Please download the Recruitment Pack and Monitoring Form. You’ll need to send us your CV, a personal statement of no more than two sides of A4 explaining how you meet the person specification for the role, and a completed monitoring form.
Deadline: Monday 15th December 2025
If you require the recruitment pack in an alternative format, please call 020 3196 1900.
Download Research Manager Healthwatch Hounslow Application Pack
Download Public Voice Monitoring Form
Social Prescribing Link Worker
Hours of work: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Annual Leave: 25 days per annum FTE (plus bank holidays) – pro rata for part time
Salary: £30,090 – £30,385 per annum FTE (inclusive of £500 expenses) – pro rata for part time
Period: Fixed-term until 31st March 2026, with possibility of extension
Based: London Borough of Haringey
The Role
These are innovative roles to develop social prescribing in the local NHS. Based in one of the six Primary Care Networks (PCN) you will work in different GP practices across that Network to deliver their specific priorities. You will join a team of ten Social Prescribing Link Workers working in Haringey PCNs and be part of a wider community-based Borough team which offers information, signposting and short-term support across the eight localities in Haringey.
Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to non-medical Social Prescribing Link Workers, who give time, focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.
Social prescribing can help to strengthen community resilience and personal resilience and reduces health inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity, by increasing people’s active involvement with their local communities. It particularly works for people with long-term conditions (including support for mental health), for people who are lonely or isolated, or have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.
At the centre of the social prescribing process is the Social Prescribing Link Worker, working with GP Practices in a Primary Care Network, who connects patients who are referred to a range of activities and services in the local area depending on their needs, interests and capacity for engagement. This is a complex role as the SPLW will need to have good interpersonal skills to engage with the patient and have a comprehensive knowledge of the services and activities available in the local area.
About you
A strong background in health or social care, or experience working with vulnerable or isolated people, is essential, along with familiarity with urban, multicultural communities. The role requires a non-judgmental, positive approach and the ability to follow clear processes when accepting referrals, assessing individuals, developing action plans, and carrying out follow-ups. Excellent communication skills are key, including the ability to negotiate, build relationships, advocate for others, and inspire colleagues and service users. Sensitivity to the needs of individuals and communities considered hard to reach is important, as is the ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders through strong social and listening skills. The ideal candidate will be driven, target-focused, highly motivated, resilient, and confident, capable of working in a busy GP practice environment and promoting the service to health professionals. They should be passionate about improving health and wellbeing, with good IT skills and experience using databases or CRM systems.
How to apply
Please download the Recruitment Pack and Monitoring Form. You’ll need to send us your CV, a personal statement of no more than two sides of A4 explaining how you meet the person specification for the role, and a completed monitoring form.
Deadline: Thursday 18th December 2025.
If you require the recruitment pack in an alternative format, please call 020 3196 1900.
Download Link Worker Recruitment Pack
Download Public Voice Monitoring Form
About us
Public Voice is a Community Interest Company (CIC) with a mission to improve neighbourhoods, the lives of the people who live in them and the public services they use.
We deliver a number of services and projects, including the statutory Healthwatch services in Haringey and Croydon, Haringey Advice Partnership, as part of consortiums delivering information, advice and guidance, and Haringey Reach and Connect, a community navigation and support service for over 50s in Haringey, in partnership with Mind in Haringey and Vibrance. We also manage a team of Social Prescribing Link Workers based in GP practices across Haringey, support Haringey’s Joint Partnership Board, with several reference groups for adult social care users providing an interface between service users, the NHS and the Council, and provide advice and support for residents in the planning, regeneration and development of their homes and neighbourhoods through our Public Voice Neighbourhoods service.
We do this through community engagement, individual user engagement and community intervention, collecting the combined voices of citizens, gathering evidence and ultimately taking action to bring about positive change, now and in the future.
Statement of intent on equality, diversity and inclusion
Public Voice is an equal opportunities employer and an anti-discrimination, pro-diversity and inclusion organisation. We aim to go beyond the narrow scope of legislative compliance and follow best practice, making equality, fairness and diversity a fundamental part of all our activities.
We want to make sure that everyone is treated fairly and with dignity and respect by challenging discrimination and removing barriers. We recognise the benefits of different values, abilities, and perspectives, and celebrating people’s differences. This means promoting an environment that welcomes and values diverse backgrounds, thinking, skills and experience.
We positively welcome applications from disabled candidates and people from all ethnic groups.
We celebrate the diversity within our staff team who are representative of the diversity in our local communities and continually strive to provide equal access to all.