Patient Advocacy and Engagement Placement

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Patient Advocacy and Engagement Placement

Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You’ll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:

• Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
• Communication (written & verbal)
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Networking
• Data analysis and management
• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)

Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students. You will join IPUnite, GSK’s community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.

The Roles (3 available)

This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each role carefully before proceeding as you will be asked to provide a preference later in the application process.

Role 1 – Patient Advocacy Executive

Overview of the Department

• Degree requirements – open to any degree
• Start date - September

As a Patient Advocacy Executive, you will be working within the Patient Focused Development (PFD) Team, responsible for championing optimal patient engagement across the Research and Development organisation. Your role will be focused on improving patient experiences and outcomes, working towards the Research and Development department’s Ambitious for Patients aims. This pioneering role involves working with many representatives across GSK as well as individual patients and patient organisations, with patient engagement at its heart. During your placement, you will support the team's patient advocacy activities including Traction Technology Platform, PA&E Network, Health Advisory Boards, PA&E Framework, annual patient organisation disclosure process and more.

Key Placement Activities

• Support the delivery of a series of patient advisory board meetings
• Assist in the delivery of the annual patient organisation disclosure of funding process on GSK.com, supporting our commitment to full transparency.
• Support the running of the global GSK Patient Advocacy and Engagement network, an internal network of GSK roles advocating efficient and comprehensive patient-focused work, made up of GSK representatives from across the world.
• Develop skills in stakeholder management, decision-making, strategic thinking, and more.

Role 2 – ViiV Positive Action Programme Support Officer

• Degree requirements – open to any degree
• Start date - June

Overview of the Department

Positive Action’s mission is to be a transformational partner that champions people and communities to end AIDS. Our vision is healthy communities in a world free of AIDS. We do this through putting people and communities first, strengthening capacity and collaborating strategically. 

Positive Action plays a pivotal role in ensuring we deliver against the strategy and contributes greatly to ViiV Healthcare’s mission of leaving no person living with or affected by HIV behind.  

We are a small yet mighty team who grant over £12m per year to organisations across the world focusing on reduction of stigma, HIV prevention, harm reduction and paediatrics.

Key Placement Activities

• Assisting with the Positive Action Request for Proposal process.
• Supporting Grant Management
• Gathering and sharing Grant Programme Learning
• Helping to develop the Positive Action Thematic Swim Lanes 
• Gaining broader exposure within the External Affairs and Communications teams.
• Developing a strong understanding of the HIV environment and the not-for-profit sector through community programming, including programming in low- and middle-income countries.

Role 3 – ViiV Global Patient Engagement

• Degree requirements – Biomedical Science, Life Sciences
• Start date - June

Overview of the Department

The Global Patient Engagement team is responsible for driving systematic and meaningful engagement of patients, patient organisations, and other relevant stakeholders across the organisation to ensure ViiV is considering their points of view in how we make decisions – this means partnering directly with them. If we do this well, we will support the organisation to develop and deliver medicines, services and interactions that really meet the needs of the patient communities we serve, and also support patients to have a more active role in achieving desired health outcomes.

Key Placement Activities

• Assist the team in evolving, communicating, and implementing a new enterprise-wide strategy, and the culture/mindset shift that will accompany the strategy.
• Support the development and execution of innovative PE internal training and strategic awareness raising events e.g. Lunch and Learn; PE Summit (TBC).
• Support the communication, implementation and delivery of the global PE plan.
• Review and work with PE team to optimise Global PE SharePoint.
• Organise and facilitate Global PE team “Value and Impact” meetings, and prepare meeting materials as per team’s needs (e.g., slide decks, reports, minutes).
• Support budget management by coordinating POs, invoices and timely payments.
• Support coordination of contracts and agreements for steering committees and advisory boards.
• Learn about the science of PE and support the team in building capabilities across the board.
• Work with other teams to dispel myths about HIV in the general population.
• Support the Global team and partners develop plans to share data and co-create materials.

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:

• Eligibility Form
• World of GSK Online Assessment
• Written Assessment
• Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

About GSK

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, itʼs also about making GSK a place where people can thrive.

We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together

How to apply

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Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.