Patient Advocacy and Engagement Industrial

**Roles Available in Location**: GSK HQ

**Education required**: Please read the degree requirements for each role before applying.

**Please read the degree requirements for each role carefully before applying.**

**Other requirements**: You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement. You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) University for the duration of your placement.

**If you have already graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.**

**Language requirement**: Written and spoken fluency in English

**Expected Start date**: June or September 2025 (please see each role for specifics)

**Duration**: 1 year (approximately)

**Salary**: A salary of £27,100 plus a bonus.

**Application Closing**: TBC

**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)**

**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
- 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