Engagement Opportunities - Week of October 24

Hello !

Here are this week's new engagement opportunities.

If you don’t see opportunities in your region, it could just be that none were posted in the past seven days. Check the Engagement Opportunities page to see all 22 current opportunities, or contact the Engagement Leader in your region to learn more.

Click on a link below to go directly to the opportunities in your region:

Provincial Opportunities
Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland Region
Interior Region
Northern Region
Vancouver Island Region
External Opportunities

Or click on the button below to see all currently open opportunities:

Provincial Opportunities

Focus Group Participant, Mental Health Service Provider Toolkit – A Trans Care BC Initiative
Are you a transgender, gender diverse and/or Two-Spirit person with an interest in helping to improve the accessibility of mental health services for trans people? Would you like to help review a written resource intended to help mental health providers offer better service?
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: October 31

*Special Opportunity*
Workshop Participant, Understanding Experience & Co-designing Solutions
Co-design reflects a fundamental change in the traditional health professional-patient relationship by valuing the expertise of those delivering and those receiving care. World renowned co-design expert, Lynne Maher, is coming to Richmond for a one-of-a-kind workshop involving BC health care and patient partners.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: November 3

Focus Group Participant, Developing a Basic or Personal Care Standard for Patients Admitted to Acute Care
Want to share your point of view on personal care (e.g. bathing, hair care, and shaving) for patients in acute units? Join this focus group as Providence Health starts working on a new initiative.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: November 3

Patient Speaker, Board Training Program for Governance of Quality and Safety
Have you previously participated in health care improvements? Would you like to share your ‘patient partner’ insights with a local health authority board of directors who are keen to expand their knowledge and skills in governing for quality and safety?
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: November 7

Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland Region

Working Group Member, Making Decisions about Life and Care – Residential Care
Do you value meaningful conversations to ensure that the wishes and preferences of residents and their family members are being respected in the care setting? If so, this project is for you!
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland
Deadline: November 1

Working Group Member, Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program
Scientific discoveries about concussions have received a lot of media attention lately, but many unanswered questions remain about diagnosis and treatment. A research team at the University of British Columbia is seeking patient partners to help inform their work on advancing concussion research and care.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley
Deadline: November 24

Interior Region

Patient Journey Mapping Participant, Trauma Improvement Project Process Map
Have you had an unplanned major or minor trauma that required a visit to Royal Inland Hospital and resulted in surgery? If so, Interior Health would like to hear about your experience to help identify gaps you may have encountered within the system.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Interior region
Deadline: November 1

*Updated*
Member, Interior Health Primary Care Patient Reference Group
Are you interested in contributing a patient perspective to the delivery of primary and community care? Interior Health is bringing partners together to develop a new way of supporting patients in their health care needs.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Interior Health region
Deadline: November 1

Northern Region

Member, Northern Health Medication Reconciliation Interprofessional Development Team
Are you interested in improving northerners’ medication safety when they are admitted to hospital and discharged home ? If so, you are invited to join the Medication Reconciliation Development Team.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Northern region
Deadline: October 31

Focus Group Participant, Patient Safety Pamphlet, Northern Health Quality Improvement
Patient safety matters! Patients and family members are active partners in ensuring safe care every day. Northern Health is looking for patient and family input to potentially redesign a key patient safety pamphlet.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Northern Health region
Deadline: October 31

Vancouver Island Region

*Updated*
Member, Adult Intensive Care Unit Quality Governance Council
Are you interested in being a part of the team coordinating some of the most advanced healthcare on the island? Your help is needed to monitor and improve the quality and safety of Island Health’s Adult Intensive Care Program by ensuring that patient voices are included at the Council table!
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Island Health region
Deadline: October 29

*Updated*
Member, Geography 4 Quality Council – Island Health
Geography 4 (Greater Victoria, Westshore, Sooke and Esquimalt) is seeking patient partners to join their Quality Council to help ensure the patient voice is represented when quality initiatives are discussed and decisions made. If you live in this area, read on and learn how you can get involved
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Greater Victoria, Sooke, West Shore or Esquimalt
Deadline: October 29

*Updated*
Member, Saanich Peninsula & Gulf Islands Quality Council
We are seeking patient partners to join the Saanich Peninsula Gulf Islands Quality Council to help ensure the patient voice is represented when quality initiatives are discussed and decisions made. If you live in this area, read on and learn how to get involved!
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in Saanich Peninsula & Gulf Islands
Deadline: October 29

External Opportunities

Accessibility Testers, Island Health Website Redesign
Island Health is redesigning its website with a goal of making health information and services as user-friendly and accessible as possible. Several rounds of usability testing have occurred and the current focus is to ensure that the new website meets the needs of people who use assistive devices to browse the web, in particular screen readers.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient partners in the Greater Victoria region
Deadline: November 1

Actor, KT Challenge: Implementing use of the McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment in Residential Care
Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for an older person, preferably with some acting skills, who would be willing to be filmed eating a meal. The script will indicate that the person has some difficulty with eating and drinking. The film will be used as part of education to occupational therapists across Vancouver Coastal Health who complete feeding, eating and swallowing assessments in our residential care sites to facilitate best practice during these assessments.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland
Deadline: January 19