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Selfmanagement.co.uk aims to help match up those of you who would like to broaden your delivery experience with some opportunities available within the self-management community. We will advertise any vacancies on this page.
Are you an organisation looking for an individual to deliver a course/training or to carry out assessments then let us know. If we don't have anybody suitable that we know of we can advertise here on your behalf.
Vacancies and opportunities
Great Ormond Street Hospital Membership
Great Ormond Street Hospital is keen for young people to become Members, as part of the process of it becoming a Foundation Trust. Membership is free, its open to anyone aged 10 or above who lives in England and Wales. People with specific experience of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children are welcome to join as is anyone with experience of the health service generally who wants to help the hospital improve.
Jaimee Mallion, Staying Positive young facilitator in the London area, has done a podcast about the hospital which can be accessed at the link below.
You can join online at www.gosh.nhs.uk/foundation
Charity website, www.healthtalkonline.org, supported by the Department of Health and based at the University of Oxford, would like to interview people about the subjects below.
They want to know how your experiences affect your life. The aim is to help others in a similar situation by sharing this information.
The want to hear about :
- Experiences of conditions which threaten women’s lives in pregnancy and childbirth
- Experiences of family, friends and relatives of people with serious life-limiting illness
- Patients’ Experiences of treatment for Penile Cancer
- Children, young people and parents’ experiences of clinical trials
- Experiences of living with Asthma
- Family members and friends who care for people with MS
- Experiences of giving up smoking
- Long term users of urinary catheters
If you are interested, please call Francie on 01865 289 328 or email Francie.smee@phc.ox.ac.ukand she will send you a patient information pack explaining all about the research project with no obligation to take part.
Invitation to your patient members for a Royal College of Nursing - Patient Consultation
We are seeking patients’ views and opinions about the care they receive from clinical nurse specialists and nurse consultants, and also their ideas about the best ways of assessing or measuring nurse performance.
We are particularly keen to obtain the views of patients who have accessed specialist or advanced nursing care within the last twelve months for treatment and/or advice across a wide range of health related issues or disease-specific treatment.
We will be inviting participants to attend focus group meetings which will take place in London and will last no longer than 2 hours (9.30am-11.30am). The focus group meetings will take place on Monday, 21st March and Friday, 1st April 2011 at the Royal Society of Medicine. The venue is situated at: 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE.
If you would like more information about the project please contact Mehreen Chandan or Lynne Currie.
Thank you
Lynne & Mehreen
Lynne Currie Mehreen Chandan
Project Manager Project Manager
Quality Standards and Innovation Unit Quality Standards & Innovation Unit
Learning & Development Institute Learning & Development Institute
Building 1400, Parkway Court 20 Cavendish Square
Oxford Business Park, Oxford London
OX4 2JY W1G 0RN
Tel: 01865 787133 Tel: 020 7647 3649
Email: lynne.currie@rcn.org.uk E-mail:mehreen.chandan@rcn.org.uk
Specialist in Chronic Pain Management
Specialized Allied Health Professional in Chronic Pain Management
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital: 25 Hours per week:
The Chronic Pain Management team provides a outpatient multidisciplinary therapeutic service to people living with Chronic Pain/Long Term Conditions in Basingstoke. The team provides a combination of medical interventions and self-management treatments for a patient group who experience high levels of physical and emotional distress with a view to improving pain management, self-management strategies and psychological well-being.
This is an exciting opportunity to join this small, busy and innovative team to extend and develop the self-management provision within the team. With experience in working with people with physical health problems, you will be responsible for providing individual treatment packages to service users as well as liaising closely with team members regarding more comprehensive treatment approaches.
This role includes: assessing need, devising and reviewing individual self-management treatment packages (the emphasis varying according to your professional background), where appropriate, inputting into the Pain Management Programme, communicating effectively with other professional colleagues and maintaining documentation.
For more details: http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/vacdetails.cgi?selection=912631538
For an informal discussion please contact Dr Anne Waters, Consultant Clinical Psychologist on 01256 473202 ext 2782, or Joan's Palmer ext 6725
Invitation to your organisation to participate in a Health Consumer Powerhouse/European Headache Alliance survey on headache/migraine
OBJECTIVE of this Health Consumer Powerhouse/European Headache Alliance survey:
“To compare European countries’ performance in the management of headache and migraine—entirely from the perspective of patients and consumers.”
Health Consumer Powerhouse (HCP) is asking health campaigners and their patient members across Europe to offer their opinions to help compile the first-ever EURO HEADACHE INDEX. This study is funded by an unconditional development grant from the European Headache Alliance (EHA).
The Euro Headache Index aims to provide guidance to patients, consumers and citizens in the field of headache treatment, access to healthcare providers, quality of treatment, outcomes, and so on.
If you would like to contribute your views on some of the issues facing people who live with headaches or migraine, the survey’s questionnaire is short—only 11 questions—and should take no more than about 10 minutes of your time to complete, depending on how much you wish to comment.
The questionnaire is being carried on a specialist survey website, so allowing all responses to be completely ANONYMOUS (unless you wish otherwise).
The survey’s closing date is March 1 2011. NOW CLOSED
To thank you for contributing your opinions to the study, and to allow you to read the results, PatientView, the survey manager, will send you (if you wish) the weblink to your free PDF copy of the Euro Headache Index 2011, when it is published (scheduled for May 2011).
Dr Arne Björnberg and Johan Hjertqvist,
Health Consumer Powerhouse,
Brussels, Stockholm, and Winnipeg.
You can take part in the survey by pressing your ‘Control’ button, and clicking your mouse on …
2011 HCP online patient choice questionnaire
HCP/EHA HEADACHE QUESTIONNAIRE [https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HEADACHEENG]
If you have any questions about this HCP survey, please contact the survey administrator: Louise Oatham, PatientView, Woodhouse Place, Upper Woodhouse, Knighton, Powys, LD7 1NG, UK. Tel: 0044-(0)1547-520-965 e-mail: info@patient-view.com
Expert Patients self-management course effectiveness
Have you or the organisation / PCT you work for carried out any evaluations on the effectiveness of running any Expert Patient Programmes or Self-Management courses?
If so we would be very interested to hear! We are looking for any examples of local evidence or evaluations as we are pulling together a report for the Department of Health. If you have absolutely anything then please let us know. Contact louisa.austin@selfmanagement.co.uk
Once complete the report findings will be available on selfmanagement.co.uk
Lead Trainer for tutor training in Clydebank near Glasgow
MS Society of Scotland
The MS Society of Scotland is looking for a Lead Trainer to run a tutor training from Thursday 14th April 2011 to Monday 18th April 2011 in Clydebank near Glasgow. All expenses will covered.
If you are interested in this opportunity please call Alex Tavern on 01950 022810 or email him at: a.tavern@mssocietyscotland.org.uk
Volunteer Facilitator - Online Course
Expert Patients Programme - Community Interest Company
Do you like running courses? Do you have a hour a day to spare? Are you web savvy? EPP CIC are looking for volunteers to facilitate the online courses
For further information please contact Christine Sherringham at christine.sherringham@eppcic.co.uk or call 0207 922 7864
Creative young volunteers
YouthHealthTalk.org
We’re recruiting creative young volunteers to contribute to Youthhealthtalk and our new social network My Youthhealthtalk. Thousands of young people visit the site every month looking for more than medical facts; the site features clips of real people talking openly about their experiences of a range of health conditions which help the viewer understand how these conditions will affect their lives.
“It’s young people talking about what it’s like on a day to day basis to experience a health condition, how they’ve coped, how they can just get on with their lives and the challenges that they’ve had to overcome” - Sophie Longton, Advisory Panel Member and regular visitor to the site.
Your help is needed to make Youthhealthtalk and My Youthhealthtalk more engaging by creating fresh content like short films or blogs and promoting the site through social media.
We can offer you:
- Experience and skills to talk about on your CV, UCAS form or MTAS application.
- Experience writing for the web
- Support to make your own films for the website.
- The opportunity to work on a website that helps thousands of young people.
- Support to get accreditation, for example the V50 award or Duke of Edinburgh Scheme.
- Expenses
Are you:
- Able to contribute 3 or more hours per month?
- Creative and/or good at writing
- Able to access to email and internet regularly?
- IT literate with an understanding of the internet including social networking sites?
- Interested in young people’s health issues?
If this sounds like you, please email Jo Kidd jo.kidd@dipex.org.uk