Join the Community Advisory Council and help shape the health care experience

The Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group (SCGOPHCG) is recruiting new consumers and carers for its Community Advisory Council (CAC).

If you are a consumer or carer who is passionate about improving health outcomes for the community, solutions oriented and interested in shaping the health care experience at our hospitals, the CAC could be for you.

To be eligible, applicants must have experienced a health service provided at Sir Charles Gairdner or Osborne Park Hospital over the past five years as a consumer, carer or family member.

The SCGOPHCG CAC:

• Ensures the voices and perspectives of patients, carers, families, and community are represented in discussions and decision-making processes.
• Represents the equality and diversity of consumers, community, carers and families that provides a mechanism to work in partnership for positive solutions that are meaningful and impactful.
• Brings lived and living experience of the health system that can shape how the system functions to be more person centred.
• Contributes to change in a range of ways from providing feedback to participating in the design of policies and programs.
• Cares about wellness, partnership, equity, learning and growing, mental health and safety, care and trust.
• Advocates for engagement and recognition of the value of lived experience and the importance of capacity building and development so that health service providers and consumers, carers and families can work together more effectively to improve health outcomes.

The CAC meets monthly, either in person or online, for a period up to two hours at least 10 times per year.

The term of appointment for members is two years from the date of the appointment.

Applications close 25 February 2025.

Full role and responsibilities are available here: SCGOPHCG CAC member role description 2025

If you are interested in applying, please download and complete the SCGOPHCG CAC Application Form 2025 and email it to: communityadvisorycouncil.scgh@health.wa.gov.au.