The Centre for Palliative Care at St Vincent’s Hospital is looking for a community advisor to join a new research project, entitled QualDeath.
About the project:
This project aims to address gaps in delivering consistent high-quality care by developing a process (QualDeath) for reviewing the quality of dying in hospitals for patients with advanced cancer. The QualDeath process is being developed through a review of current related literature, and through interviews and focus groups with clinicians and community advisors.
Community advisors are an essential part of this project as they bring a non-clinical voice to discussions and decisions that is grounded in personal experience.
The project is overseen by the QualDeath Management Committee (QMC), a team of researchers and clinicians from participating hospitals; a representative from the Western & Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service (WCMICS); and community advisors. It is funded by the Western & Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service (WCMICS) and managed by the Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.
About the role:
There is currently an opportunity for a second community advisor to join the QMC. The responsibilities for this role are:
- To attend and contribute to quarterly QMC meetings (of no longer than 1 hour).
- To provide relevant feedback on occasional documents circulated by the research team.
The representative will ideally have personal experience of caring for somebody with advanced cancer, or somebody who died an expected death in hospital, although this is not essential.
All representatives will be engaged in line with the St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne “Health Consumer Representative Renumeration and Out of Pocket Expenses Reimbursement Procedure” of July 2021.
For more information about the project, or to express your interest, please contact:
Dr Hannah Gould
hannah.gould@shva.org.au
QualDeath Research Fellow/ Project Officer