Lived Experience Quality Assurance Lead
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 December 2025 |
| Location: | Whittingham, Preston, PR3 2JH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9351-25-1155 |
Summary
The post holder will be responsible for the leadership of co-produced quality improvement projects to ensure delivery of a high-quality specialist inpatient mental health service, meeting the complex and diverse needs of the learning disability population. Opportunities for line management support will be met by the service; however, the leadership of quality improvement projects will be the responsibility of this post-holder. The key responsibilities of this role are: To lead quality assurance processes by integrating feedback and insights from individuals with lived experience. Act as a voice for individuals with Learning Disabilities, ensuring their perspectives shape service development and improvement. Promote a culture that values lived experience as a critical component ofservice improvement. Conduct quality assurance activities, including audits, service evaluations, observations and feedback collection. Work collaboratively with service users, families, and staff to co-produce improvements. Advocate for service users rights, dignity and high- quality care within Water Meadow View. Support training and awareness initiatives to enhance staff understanding of lived experience. To be an expert role model and provide leadership within Water meadow View by ensuring systems are in place to share knowledge, expertise and examples of good practice. Support the governance and duty of care to safeguarding others by acting in accordance with Trust policy and procedures. Provide leadership to Peer facilitators working on the unit For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification