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If you are going to be the only healer, I'd really recommend using either or both of the Hedge Witch and Bonded Witch archetypes. Hedge Witch will give you spontaneous healing, and if you take Wand for your bonded witch item you can make wands of CLW very easily, as well as giving you some backup blasting capability.
I would say don't take Slumber, your DM will hate you.
Most people forget that Witches are full arcane casters although their spells are mainly enchantment, necromancy and evocation. Evocation is the key, anything immune to your enchantment effects can be blasted.
The action economy on hexes is truly horrible.
Take blasting spells so you're not left feeling useless against the plethora of monsters that are immune. Use your hexes carefully, try not to spam them as you'll ruin everyone else's fun.
Misfortune and fortune are awesome hexs, get slumber also! and in all honesty, you seem to be getting the right spells and hexes so far ;).
and for your patron, look at the spell lists, you might get a spell that you wont know.
Slumber is PF on easy mode.
Slumber is PF on easy mode.
And it's also Control. Which would you rather have, battle field control or just straight heals? Plus the witch can let your allies roll twice to attack, and the enemy roll twice and missing most of the time.
Witches have plenty of great options that are already among the best debuffs and control options in the game without the coup de grace factory that "slumber" is.
If you need it, then get it I suppose.
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Healer Witch? Healing hex+infernal healing+CLW=effective. You take the hex and CLW because hex only works 1/day on each member, and for long encounters, you need to heal more then once. Also, if you have an OK wisdom, you may want to consider a dip in at a high level cleric. You get more of a spell variety, more offensive powers (if you choose good domains*) and much more effective healing. Racial heritage is a nice feat and bonded witch is an effective archetype. Do you have stats you could show?
*healing domain is a trap. you don't get all that more effective at healing and you don't get good domains spells for a while.
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Another good trait (not sure what type dim seer is so don't know if you can take this as its a magic trait) is magical Knack. It gives +2 CL to one class as long as your increased CL is less than or equal to your HD. Great for casters that take dips. Also there is sacred touch which stabilizes others if you spend a standard action (that doesn't provoke) to touch them (this i believe is a religion trait).
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A lot of GMs say you can't have 2 traits of the same type (and I thought dim seer was magic trait). The trait gives you an auto success on the heal check (auto stabilizes) and I think the skill provokes AaO's, its mainly taken to save healers a cantrip. You don't need a kit at all to use heal skill, the kit just provides a bonus. You may want to look into traits that give bonuses on concentration checks like focused mind(which gives +2)
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you cannot have 2 traits from the same category by RAW.
There are a few rules governing trait selection. To begin
with, your GM controls how many bonus traits a PC begins
with; the default assumption is two traits. When selecting
traits, you may not select more than one from the same list
of traits (the four basic traits each count as a separate list for
this purpose). Certain types of traits may have additional
requirements, as detailed in the section above.
Advanced Player's Guide, Page 326
So, suck, or everyone will hate you?
How so?
Everybody loves our Witch.
Suck? Really, did you just say a Witch without Slumber would suck!
There many ways to skin a cat, the Witch has a whole bag full!
Oh well, each to their own.
You could always go Scarred Witch Doctor.
Racial Heritage(Orc) feat.
Constitution as a caster stat.
That would make you a lot less squishy, good call.
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So, suck, or everyone will hate you?
How so?
Everybody loves our Witch.
Suck? Really, did you just say a Witch without Slumber would suck!
There many ways to skin a cat, the Witch has a whole bag full!
Oh well, each to their own.
The suggestions were going more and more towards self nerfing.
As if one playing a Witch has to go out their way not to be super powerful, and ruining it for everyone.
Over the top is what I was suggesting that advice was.
The OP already has a CON of 16 -- that's a significantly less squishy than normal witch.