CQC - Children's Services Inspector

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

This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

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.

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.

What we can offer you...

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.

We want to support you to succeed and be your very best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.

We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.

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.

To access the full job description, please click the link below:

Childrens Services Inspector JD

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

Individual adjustments...

We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: recruitment@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