HEALTH CARE CONSENT ADVANCE CARE PLANNING (HCC ACP):

HPCO has led the Health Care Consent Advance Care Planning (HCC ACP) Ontario strategy since 2011. As such, HPCO has recently been mandated in the Ontario Palliative Care Network Annual Workshop to continue to develop and update materials for patients, caregivers, substitute decision makers, and clinical health care providers to engage in Advance Care Planning Conversations, Goals of Care

Discussions and Health Care Consent in alignment with Ontario’s legal landscape, and the Health Quality Ontario (Ontario Health) Palliative Care Quality Standards.

PLACEMENT SUMMARY – HCC ACP PROJECT COORDINATOR:

HPCO accomplishes this goal through a broad and expert HCC ACP Community of Practice (CoP). It consists of a Leadership Advisory Team, Clinical Advisory Team, Regional Champions, Organizational Champions, General Membership, Lead Trainer Program, and several working groups including a cross sector of provincial associations, a research working group, and a pediatric interest group. The CoP utilizes the Speak Up Ontario Website as its way to communicate Ontario compliant content, resources, education, webinars, tools and materials to Health Service Providers, Non-Health Care Professionals as well as Individuals and Families. It is the number one provincial source for information about HCC ACP in Ontario.

During this placement, the student will:

· help to coordinate the refresh plan of the Speak Up Ontario website to improve user experience and user interface for clinicians, non-health care professionals and individuals and families.

· have the opportunity to work with staff members to prepare communication summaries of their HPCO HCC ACP work for inclusion in the HPCO newsletter and other communication venues.

· have the opportunity to work with CoP members to prepare communication summaries and profile their HCC ACP work in the community for inclusion in the HPCO newsletter and other communication venues.

· help to support the public facing promotion of ACP through social media, web, awareness ads, including marketing and branding strategies.

· Additional tasks or initiatives within this placement will be added based on the student’s skills and interests.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Meeting planning

· Communication and publication planning

· Promotions & Outreach

· Logistics

· Research

· Marketing and branding

· Coordination and communication with CoP members (i.e. organizing documents, communicating key messages)

· Develop strategic partnerships with key stakeholders (i.e. expanding Cross Sector Working Group)

· Innovation support for new HCC ACP related workshops/webinars

Students get the opportunity to work collaboratively as a team on a number of projects where one of the team members themselves or the supervisor can provide mentoring.

Periodic supervision will be provided where the student can work independently or as a team on their assigned projects and report to the supervisor during their weekly check-in. The supervisor will not interfere in the students regular duties but will always be there to provide support when needed. Students have the opportunity to hone their skills on communications, project managements, research and work on qualitative and quantitative data, creativity etc.