Healthwatch North Lincolnshire is looking for volunteers to fill a number of different voluntary roles.
Healthwatch is the new way for local people to have a say in improving and changing local health and social care services.
They are requiring volunteers for the following roles:
Enter and View Visitor – Involves authorised representatives entering places where health and social care services are carried out, talking to patients, their families/carers, staff and to observe how well services are being carried out. Creating reports based on evidence and not personal agendas. Good communication skills and remaining confidential throughout are essential.
Task and Finish Group – Involves gathering evidence in preparation of reports for consideration by service providers and commissioners. Meeting deadlines, analysing data and holding good communication skills are essential. The groups are open to those with an interest in or experience of a service or health condition.
Readabilty Group – Includes bring approached by commissioners to review certain documents/reports relating to health and social care services before or after their published. Making sure information is easy to read and accessible. Meeting deadlines and remaining confidential are essential. Personal statements will also be required.
The closing date for applications is 16 December 2013.
Cabinet member for People and Chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Board, Coun Rob Waltham (Brigg and Wolds) said: “It’s really important that Healthwatch can get as many volunteers as possible. Volunteers can be a wonderful asset to Healthwatch by helping to improve health and social care services by getting involved with reports and interacting with patients.”
I once undertook a course which required me to research the Readability Age of newspapers.....
ReplyDeleteThe Sun, according to my findings, required a reading age of 6.5 to 7 years; while the Guardian and the Times needed the reading age of around 10+ years.
Some kids' comics seemingly needed quite a high reading age, but the computer programme I was using used a component of measuring the rarity of word usage as part of its analysis process and words like 'Kerpow', 'Zingggggg' 'Bing-Bong-Bash' may have skewed the results!
Many formal reading age tests do not extend much beyond a reading age of about 13 years. It is said that once someone has a RA of around 9.5years, they have the analytical skills to be independent readers with the ability to decipher more difficult words - from the reading age of 12ish, it is a matter of building/extending vocabulary and comprehension in the overall aspect of language skills.
Primary teachers will emphasise that Language requires skills in 4 distinct areas - Writing, Speaking, Listening and Reading.