Lived Experience Partner - Quality Monitoring Team
Closing Date: 05/01/2025

Note: This is NOT a student role

Lancaster Medical School seeks to appoint a pool of Lived Experience Partners to become key members of our Quality Monitoring Visiting Team.  The role will be fully supported by senior academic and clinical staff of the school in the lead up to the visit and on the day.  The visits will be on a annual rotational basis to

Major Duties:   

• To be involved in the annual Lancaster Medical School Quality Monitoring Visit Team to placements used by Lancaster Medical School for placement training as part of the MBChB (Batchelor of Medicine and Surgery) programme. 
• Lived Experience Partners are key members of the team, and their role involves the ensuring of externality, fairness and transparency as well as to represent the interests of the wider public. 
• They will be provided with paperwork in advance and usually offered the opportunity to ask questions of the placement, undergraduate team, senior leadership team, clinical educators or the medical students.
• As a Lived Experience Partner, you will be supported by the Quality team and other members of the visiting team. 
• Quality Monitoring Visits give the placement provider an opportunity to report on its performance and ensure satisfactory completion of obligations.
• They allow for issues to be raised and good practice to be identified.
• The trust will be asked to complete a self-assessment questionnaire before the visit and to survey educators and used alongside student feedback to triangulate questions of the visit.

The quality monitoring visit team looks at the following aspects:

• Facilities for students
• Organisation and delivery of teaching
• Staffing and job plans
• Learning opportunities
• Access to patients
• Health and Safety

• We are looking for a member of the public and end service user of the NHS.