Care Quality Commission Children’s Services Inspector – National Operations Multi-agency

Salary: £39,390 (National Framework) or £44,729 per annum (London Framework – if you are home-based and live within the boundary of the M25). There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home and an Operational Car Working Allowance of £482 per annum.

Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Location: Home-based - Flexible. 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.

Closing date: Sunday 12th May 2024 at 11.59pm

About Us

We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England. 

Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well as well as encouraging improvements and taking action over poorer care, where necessary.

One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network.

We are now looking for a Children’s Services Inspector to join our Children’s Services Inspection Team on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays

- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution

- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day

- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars

- Discounted gym vouchers

- Cycle to work scheme

- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!

- Equipment for homeworking

Why this could be a great role for you

This is an exceptional opportunity for a health services professional with a strong grasp of children’s healthcare and associated legislation to become part of a dedicated team working towards a safer, more compassionate care system for all.

You’ll have the chance to step into a role where you can truly make a difference, playing a vital part in shaping the quality of healthcare services for children across England.

What’s more, you’ll be rewarded with an amazing range of wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, fantastic flexible working policies as well as extensive training and development schemes to support your professional and personal growth.

What you will bring…

To be considered as a Children’s Services Inspector, you will need:

- Knowledge of all aspects of healthcare to children, including community services (health visitors, school nurses, child sexual and substance misuse services), primary medical services, acute hospitals and child and adolescent mental health services

- A thorough understanding of how agencies from health, social care, probation and police work together to protect children at risk of significant harm

- Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

- Good IT and data analysis skills

You will also need a thorough understanding of legislation supporting children and families with special education needs and disabilities, including:

- SEND code of practice: 0 – 25 years

- Working Together to Safeguard Children Published 26 March 2015, updated 9 December 2020

- Safeguarding accountability and assurance framework. Safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk in the NHS

- Learning Disability Improvement Standards for NHS Trusts

- Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and Competencies for Healthcare Staff published 31/01/2019

- Looked after children: Roles and Competencies of Healthcare Staff

- The Children Act 2004

- The Children and Families Act 2014

What you’ll be doing

As a Children’s Services Inspector, you will contribute to the development and delivery of national inspections and other CQC programmes.

As part of our highly skilled, specialist team, you’ll carry out regulatory inspections of a variety of children’s health services across several single-agency and multi-agency inspection programmes.

Supporting national inspections, you’ll work on-site to analyse evidence, assess risk, produce high-quality written reports and determine regulatory responses, maintaining accurate records of key information.

Additionally, you will:

- Engage with children, young people and families who use our services

- Contribute to schedule setting, managing the delivery of inspections and programme planning meetings

- Ensure issues and risks are appropriately escalated

- Build relationships to share knowledge and information with internal and external stakeholders

Next steps

If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team or include a note in your application.

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.

So, if you’d like to join us as a Children’s Services Inspector, please apply via the button shown.

Other organisations may call this role Independent Visitor, Regulatory Advisor, Healthcare Inspector, Care and Compliance Inspector, Quality and Compliance Inspector, Health and Safety Inspector, or Occupational Health Inspector.