Community engagement is how we share our strengths, skills, experience and capabilities.
For the benefit of the people, causes and organisations we care about.
Our commitment to community engagement is integral to who we are. It leverages our greatest asset, our skills and experience, for the benefit of many and gives us meaning.
We share our unique skills and our wisdom; what we’ve learned from our life and its setbacks. And we share the unique lenses through which we view the world and what is possible.
Nicole sits on the Psychosocial Oncology Program and Wellbeing Quality & Safety (POP) Committee, as well as the Patient Experience Project Steering Committee (PESC), at Peter Mac.
The POP Committee enables her to work closely with key clinical and allied leaders to provide a consumer lens and alternative perspective, supporting them as they oversee the ongoing management and evaluation of the Centre’s psychosocial oncology and wellbeing program, its pillars and goals. The PESC is all about best practice in patient experience for a Cancer Centre that is already one of the very best in world and allows Nicole to contribute her unique skills and lived experience.
Nicole is also an Associate Investigator on a clinical trial being run by one of the Centre’s NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellows, where she brings the benefit of her unique skills and lived experience to the clinical trial for the benefit of future patients.
Nicole is in love with Aussie Rules football and is a Foundation Member of the Sydney Swans AFLW (and has supported the Club more broadly since moving to Sydney from Melbourne over 20 years ago).
Her commitment to and support of the AFLW Sydney Swans goes much deeper than just watching the games and cheer cheering though. She helps individual players to think about their life after football. AFLW is a very young person’s game; there aren’t many careers where you have to start thinking about retirement at 30?!
AFLW players typically juggle their role as elite athletes in one of the most physically demanding sports in the country with a second demanding role either working or studying or sometimes a combination of both. Nicole supports individual players with developmental coaching, mentoring and professional support that helps them to reflect on, and prepare for, their futures.
Nicole is a Foundation Member of the Leukaemia Foundation’s Lived Experience Engagement Program (LEEP), which supports the Foundation in its aspiration to cultivate the voice of people with lived experience of blood cancer in authentic ways. She invests her time, skills and experience in organisation-wide improvement processes, including contributing to the planning, design, monitoring, delivery and evaluation of the Foundation’s systems, policies, and procedures.
Nicole’s contribution in this role is broad, including as a contributor and media spokesperson for the Foundation in relation to fundraising, communication and advocacy. Most recently, she represented the Foundation in a radio interview on ABC Sydney about bone marrow donation and stem cell transplants, in the lead up to World Marrow Donor Day.
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