Children's Service Inspector

at  Care Quality Commission

Grade B - £39,390 (National Framework) or £44,729 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £529 per annum for those working from home
Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Homebased Flexible - This post is for a national programme and the ability to travel regularly and be accommodated away from home when on site for week-long inspections will be required.
Closing date: Thursday 12th December 2024 at 11.59pm

ARE YOU COMMITTED TO HELPING US REGULATE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE WITHIN ENGLAND?

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING…

With the ability to use analytical information and risk-based methodology to inform decision-making, you’ll ideally have leadership background within health services, with knowledge and skills in child safeguarding, children with special educational needs and disabilities, looked after children and the multi-agency landscape of children’s services. You will have experience of managing challenging scenarios and difficult conversations. Computer literate and an excellent communicator, you’re confident at articulating coherent rationales for action based on robust evidence.
You’ll come from a professional health or social care background where you have gained a thorough understanding of the needs of people who use these services.
We require our inspectors to be highly autonomous and have the motivation and drive to apply initiative and discipline to your work. You will work as part of a geographically dispersed homebased team and as such we are looking for people who are self-driven and have the energy to manage the dynamic of life in a non-office-based environment. This post is for a national programme and the ability to travel regularly and be accommodated away from home on a regular basis will be required.

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Please click here for the JD: Childrens Services Inspector JD final.pdf
For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact:
Lea Pickerill, Children’s Services Manager at Lea.Pickerill@cqc.org.uk
Kaye Goodfellow, Children’s Services Manager at Kaye.Goodfellow@cqc.org.uk
Jess Taylor-Beirne, Children’s Services Manager at Jess.Taylor-Beirne@cqc.org.uk

CQC IS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING A FAIR AND INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE WHERE ALL OUR PEOPLE CAN FLOURISH AND REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. WE KNOW DIVERSE TEAMS ALLOW FOR A MORE CREATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT AND THEREFORE ENCOURAGE APPLICATIONS FROM EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF: AGE, GENDER/SEX, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, RELIGION OR BELIEF, DISABILITY, ETHNICITY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION.

Our Values
Excellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation
Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect
Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’
Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can

WHY THIS COULD BE A GREAT ROLE FOR YOU….

An exciting opportunity for a Children’s Services Inspector has arisen within our Children’s Services Inspection Team.
As a Children’s Services Inspector you will be part of a highly skilled, specialist team, you’ll enjoy a varied remit as you inspect children’s health services in a number of single agency and multi-agency inspection programmes. You will carry out a small number of regulatory inspections, however you will be predominantly responsible for leading on, and contributing to, national inspections you’ll undertake on-site activity, analyse evidence, assess risk and produce high quality written reports, maintaining an audit trail of key records and information on a regular basis. It’s a role with plenty of autonomy and team-working too so you’ll need to be able to work successfully at all levels both internally and externally.
Of course, you will live our vision, objectives and values in everything you do. It’s a challenging, unpredictable environment so you’ll need to be flexible and willing to travel to a variety of locations and stay away from home on a regular basis. You will be based at home when not on inspections. This post is for a national programme and the ability to travel regularly and be accommodated away from home when on site for week-long inspections will be required.