Current opportunities to get involved

Lived experience partner – Executive Quality Group Experience of Care Sub-Group

NHS England’s People and Communities Division is seeking two Lived Experience Partners to help shape healthcare services at the highest level.

The opportunity

Join the Executive Quality Group Experience of Care Sub-Group, a key part of NHS England’s quality governance structure. Your voice will directly influence how we improve care experience for millions of people.

Your role

  • shape advice and submissions to NHS England’s executive and board
  • help assess and address critical healthcare experience issues
  • ensure public perspectives influence strategic decisions
  • work alongside senior NHS leaders

Who we’re looking for

  • people who use or have recently used NHS services in England
  • carers with recent experience of NHS services
  • those passionate about improving healthcare experiences

What we offer

  • involvement payment per meeting
  • virtual meetings via MS Teams
  • full support and training
  • opportunity to influence at national level

Interested?

For an informal discussion or to apply, contact: england.peopleandcommunities@nhs.net. Mark your application: “FAO: Executive Quality Group EOC Sub-group LEP application”

Closing date: Midnight on Monday 20 January 2025
Interviews: Week beginning 27 January 2025 (via MS Teams)

Application documents

Join us as a patient and public voice partner for NHS and social care data policy and programmes

NHS England is on the lookout for 10 passionate individuals to become patient and public voice (PPV) partners. Your role will be crucial in shaping how we use health and social care data, ensuring it benefits everyone across the UK in a trustworthy manner. We aim to build public trust and confidence in our data usage. With £1.5 million recently allocated for public engagement, we’re at the forefront of exciting changes. Your insights will help us understand public views and guide our decisions.

As a PPV partner, you’ll join our Patient and Public Engagement and Communications Group, ensuring the public voice is heard at every decision-making stage. This groups meets once a month, and there is also an opportunity to participate in other specialised data advisory groups.

We actively welcome applications from all backgrounds – you do not need to be an expert in data or technology or have previous experience in participating in advisory groups. We’re also really interested in hearing from any users of adult social care or those with caring responsibilities.

If you’re passionate about public engagement and confident in advocating for public involvement, we want you. These are ‘role 4’ positions, offering involvement fees.

Application documents

Closing date: 12:00 noon 17 January 2025
Interview: via MS Teams week commencing Monday 27 January 2025

For more details, contact us at england.healthdatavoices@nhs.net. Let’s shape the future of NHS data together.

Join us as a patient and public voice partner to help form our learning and support offer

NHS England is seeking two patient and public voice partners (PPV) to help develop our learning and support offer for PPV partners and NHS England colleagues around working with people and communities. An example of this work is helping to develop the existing PPV partner network into a more effective online space for PPV partners who work with NHS England to collaborate, offer peer support and share experiences. The roles will include removing barriers to accessing learning and support and ensuring the overall offer meets needs and aspirations.

Applicants will bring their experience of working in a training/development type space and their great people skills together to support others to learn. Experience of working with NHS England as a PPV partner would be advantageous. They will work alongside NHS England’s Experience and Partnerships team, developing training and development offers and resources.

There will be induction training and ongoing support provided. This role will attract an involvement fee, and we anticipate approx. 2 days per month, subject to budget availability.

Application documents

Closing date: 12:00 noon Friday 17 January 2025
Interview: via MS Teams week commencing Monday 27 January 2025