- Competitive salary ranging from £75,000 - £80,000 per annum
- Opportunity to join a Senior Leadership Team
- Chance to contribute to a high performing team
The Role:
The Head of Quality and Safety will:
- Act as the Business Partner to the Managing Director, ensuring the highest standards of care, support, safety, education, regulatory compliance, and best practice across all services
- Co-responsibility for delivering the organisation's in-year business plan
- Work collaboratively with service leaders and operational colleagues to ensure a culture of continuous quality and safety improvement
- Manage the quality business partner and health and safety teams, setting clear expectations, standards and measures that drive and maintain high performance
- Oversee and co-ordinate the health and safety inspection process to ensure site level health and safety assurance
- Support and shape the development of Service Managers and other operational managers across the organisations
- Be involved in data analysis, gaining insights from information, ensuring that themes, trends, exceptions and risks are appropriately acted upon and mitigated
- Identify areas for organisational audit based on emerging themes, trends and priorities
- Provide expert leadership for safeguarding across the organisation, ensuring that policies and procedures are adhered to at all times
- Take a proactive role within the Senior Leadership Team, stepping in across the peer group to managing the in-year business plan and implementation of the Quality Strategy, other business strategies and the Meaningful Life Model
The Candidate:
The ideal candidate should have:
- Significant experience in adult social care service leadership, strategic project implementation and continuous quality improvement
- Extensive sector knowledge and a full understanding of the regulatory and best practice frameworks
- Comprehensive knowledge of safeguarding best practice and process, and the associated legislation
- Significant expertise in working with, and improving, services for children and adults with very complex and safeguarding needs and autism/learning disability
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, and the ability to communicate complex and technical information with clarity
- Ability to work fast at pace and with scale and personal resilience
- Analytical skills with the ability to interrogate data to inform decisions, with an attention to detail
- Commitment to own personal development, using external professional networks to keep up to date, considering how lessons may apply to the organisation to support continuous improvement and effectiveness
The Package:
- Basic salary of £75,000 - £80,000 per annum
- Opportunity to join a Senior Leadership Team
- Chance to contribute to a high performing team
Our client is dedicated to helping the people they support expand their life skills, abilities and experiences as part of their therapeutic community and meaningful life delivery model. Their ethos is to put individual needs, values, aspirations and outcomes at the centre of everything they do.
If you are an experienced professional with a passion for quality and safety, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and cover letter detailing your suitability for the role.
Similar job titles for this role include Quality Assurance Manager, Safety Manager, Quality and Safety Director, Head of Quality Assurance and Safety, and Senior Quality and Safety Manager. Coburg Banks Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.