Director of Quality Improvement & Impact
National Role | England & Scotland | Executive Leadership Team | Hybrid Working
Help us shape the future of quality, practice and outcomes
At the heart of everything we do is a commitment to helping people live their best lives. We're now looking for an exceptional Director of Quality Improvement & Practice Development to lead the next chapter of our quality journey.
This is not a traditional quality or compliance role.
We're looking for a visionary leader who can turn insight into action, learning into improvement, and good practice into outstanding outcomes. Someone who is passionate about raising standards, developing people, and ensuring the people we support experience safe, person-centred and high-quality services every day.
As a key member of our Executive Team, you'll lead our organisation-wide approach to quality improvement, clinical and practice leadership, regulatory readiness, and continuous learning across services throughout England and Scotland.
Quality Improvement Strategy and Practice Development
- Lead the development and delivery of a charity-wide Quality Excellence & Impact Strategy, aligned to the organisation’s values, strategic objectives and regulatory expectations.
- Design and embed practical frameworks, standards, tools and ways of working that support consistent, high-quality practice across the group.
- Ensure improvement activity is proactive, insight-led and focused on improving outcomes, rather than driven solely by audit findings or inspection cycles.
- Provide senior leadership for practice development, ensuring colleagues are supported to understand, apply and sustain best practice in day-to-day service delivery.
- Ensure active listening and two way feedback is in place across all stakeholder teams to enable alignment on team priorities and deliverables
Clinical Leadership and Governance
- Provide visible senior clinical leadership across the charity, supporting safe, effective and person-centred practice.
- Lead the development and oversight of the clinical supervision framework, ensuring registered clinicians and specialist practitioners are supported, supervised and professionally accountable.
- Lead the team of experts who provide advice on complex practice, clinical risk, safeguarding interfaces, restrictive practice, medication safety, positive behaviour support and other high-risk areas of service delivery.
- Ensure clinical and practice standards are clearly defined, consistently applied and reviewed in response to learning, evidence and regulatory expectations.
Learning from Assurance, Regulation and Insight
- Work closely with the Director of Assurance to ensure assurance findings, regulatory feedback, incidents, complaints, safeguarding themes and audit outcomes are translated into practical improvement action through robust lessons learnt.
- Lead the development of organisational learning loops, ensuring themes and trends are converted into improved practice, updated guidance, targeted support and measurable change.
- Use data, insight and operational intelligence to identify emerging quality risks and opportunities for improvement across services.
- Co-own key organisational data sets, ensuring clear accountability for data quality, accuracy and consistency, and providing assurance that data used for reporting, insight and decision-making is robust and reliable.
- Ensure improvement priorities are clear, evidence-based and aligned with regional and national service needs.
Regulatory & Statutory Compliance and Practice Readiness
- Lead the team responsible for regulatory and statutory compliance support, ensuring services understand and apply the expectations of CQC, Care Inspectorate, SSSC and OFSTED.
- Provide governance and oversight for all statutory requirements such as NHS capacity tracker, contract monitoring and PAMMS visits
- Support the development of consistent approaches to inspection preparation, regulatory action plans and improvement responses.
- Ensure learning is shared across regions and translated into practical tools, guidance and support for operational teams.
- Work with operational leaders to build confidence, capability and readiness in relation to quality standards and regulatory expectations.
Outcomes, Participation and Co-production
- Lead the development and embedding of the charity’s outcomes framework, ensuring quality improvement is grounded in what matters to people supported.
- Strengthen the role of participation, co-production and accessible communication within the charity.
- Ensure feedback from people supported, families, colleagues and stakeholders is used meaningfully to shape standards, guidance, improvement priorities and service development.
- Champion approaches that promote inclusion, choice, control, rights, safety and positive outcomes.
Policy, Systems and Standard Operating Practice
- Lead the development of quality and practice policies, procedures, standard operating practices and supporting guidance that are clear, accessible and usable by operational teams.
- Ensure there is one consistent organisational approach wherever possible, with appropriate variation only where required by different regulatory regimes or service models.
- Contribute to the evolution of systems and digital tools that support quality improvement, regulatory compliance, practice development and insight-led decision making.
- Ensure policy and practice development activity is connected to operational realities, colleague capability and measurable improvement.
Leadership, Culture and Capability
- Lead and develop the central Quality Improvement and Practice Development team.
- Build trusted relationships with the Executive team, AMD’s, Heads of Quality, regional leaders and operational colleagues to agree priorities and support delivery of sustainable improvement.
- Actively participate in regional regulatory forums, both to gather feedback and insight and support in development of operational teams.
- Promote a culture of learning, curiosity, evidence-based practice and continuous improvement across the charity.
- Support colleagues to move from compliance-focused activity towards confident, values-led practice that improves outcomes and strengthens quality at service level.
- As a member of the executive team contribute to charity wide programmes and projects and overall delivery of the organisations strategy.
- Knowledge of one or more of the following areas - safeguarding, risk, incident learning, complaints learning, restrictive practice, positive behaviour support and person-centred approaches
Competencies, Skills & Abilities
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex data, assurance findings and regulatory insights into practical improvement initiatives.
- Strong clinical and professional judgement, with the ability to make informed decisions and provide expert guidance in complex and high-risk situations.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at Executive, senior leadership and operational levels.
- Proven ability to lead organisational change and drive continuous improvement within complex and regulated environments.
- Highly developed coaching and leadership capabilities, with experience building professional confidence, capability and best practice across teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, risks and opportunities from multiple sources of information.
- High levels of credibility, integrity and emotional intelligence, with a commitment to values-led, person-centred leadership.
- Ability to balance organisational consistency with the diverse needs of services, regions and regulatory frameworks.
Key Skills
- Quality improvement and organisational development
- Clinical leadership and governance
- Regulatory compliance and inspection readiness
- Safeguarding and risk management
- Practice development and capability building
- Data analysis, performance insight and quality assurance
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing
- Change management and transformation leadership
- Policy development and implementation
- Coaching, mentoring and team leadership
- Strategic planning and execution
- Outcomes-focused and person-centred practice
- Partnership working and cross-functional collaboration
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to lead one of the most important agendas in our organisation.
You'll have the platform to shape practice, strengthen quality, influence culture and create lasting impact across a national charity supporting people throughout England and Scotland.
Working alongside an ambitious Executive Team, you'll help ensure we continue to deliver services that are safe, effective, person-centred and focused on enabling people to live their best lives.
Ready to make a difference?
If you're an experienced clinical, quality or practice leader ready to influence at the highest level and drive meaningful improvement across a national organisation, we'd love to hear from you. If you would like to have a chat please call Vicki Andrews on 07816 268813 or email me at Victoria [email protected]
Join us and help create Best Lives, Bolder Futures.
Community Integrated Care is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We transform lives by delivering high- quality, person-centred support that fosters independence and empowerment.
Our charity was founded in 1988 and we were one of the pioneers of the ‘Care in the Community’ agenda, enabling people to move out of long-stay institutions and live more fulfilling lives.
Since then, we’ve remained leaders in social care, providing bespoke support to thousands across the UK. Today, we support more than 2,600 people and employ 6,600 caring and committed colleagues across England and Scotland.
We have a proud history of breaking boundaries and are always looking for new ways to make a positive difference through bold ideas, innovative projects and impactful partnerships.
We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.
In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34.
The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones – and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.
