Quality Improvement Manager
Salary: £52,737 (National Framework) or £58,139 (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 £553 per annum for those working from home.
Contracted Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 22nd September 2024 at 11.59pm
Location: Home-based, or CQC office-based
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 Quality Improvement Manager to join us on a full-time, permanent basis.
The Benefits
- 27 days' annual leave, 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 a rewarding opportunity for a highly qualified and experienced Quality Improvement (QI) and change professional with an excellent leadership style to join our dedicated team.
You will have the chance to play a pivotal role in shaping the quality of care across health and social care services in England, by ensuring people in our organisation are equipped with the best skills and capability to achieve our goals.
If you're passionate about driving improvement and fostering a culture of excellence, this is the perfect role for you!
What you will bring...
To be considered as a Quality Improvement Manager, you will need:
- Expertise in a range of proven QI and change methodologies
- Expertise in leading or facilitating multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience of teaching or facilitating learning to colleagues at all levels
- Experience of working with senior leaders
- Influencing skills
- To be educated to degree level, or possess equivalent experience
What you'll be doing
As a Quality Improvement Manager, you will provide expert guidance and support on improvement across our entire organisation.
You will establish, drive, and embed a quality improvement culture, supporting leaders and teams in the identification, scoping, planning, implementation, and impact measurement of improvement initiatives.
Additionally, you will:
- Work on a variety of improvement initiatives to support the continuous improvement of our regulatory services
- Lead QI-focused workshops and events to help stakeholders articulate their improvement priorities
- Create project charters for approval by the relevant committees and boards
- Support the alignment of our QI methodology with practices in the health and social care sector
- Collaborate with the Quality Improvement Team to develop and refine QI processes
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 Quality Improvement Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
Other organisations may call this role Quality Assurance Manager, Improvement Lead, Continuous Improvement Manager, Change Manager, or Quality Lead.