Actor, palliative care program

• Portrays characteristics of a patient or family member for training/assessing health care students and professionals
• Undergoes serious illness conversations with healthcare trainees or professionals in small-group setting
• Provides constructive written and verbal feedback to ACT Course Facilitators
• Consistently and accurately portrays various medical scenarios or cases during mock serious illness conversations
• Responds to basic medical history questions
• Modulates emotional tenor and content of the role
• Improvises routinely
• Maintains confidentiality
• Undergoes repeated challenging serious illness conversations
• Memorizes case scenario and simulate details
• Completes standardized patient orientation and ongoing training sessions
• Participates in group training and/or mentorship of newly hired standardized patients
• Provides educationally constructive verbal feedback
• Responds to basic inquiries and completes other administrative functions

• High school diploma or the equivalent
• 6 months of work or volunteer experience
• Experience in theatre, a medical field or education
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken
• Strong reading and writing skills
• Ability to accurately portray a wide range of roles and scenarios, include extremes of emotion
• Ability to reset emotional tenor accurately multiple times
• Ability to work closely with, and take subtle direction from, the Course Facilitator
• Organization, reliability and punctuality
• Willing and able to work a varied, flexible schedule

Fluency in more than one language