Head of Quality, Compliance & Continuous Improvement
£55,000 - £60,000 per annumKent | Hybrid Working
Are you a quality professional who is ready to take the next into senior leadership?
The Kent Autistic Trust is one of the UK's leading specialist autism charities, supporting autistic adults to live meaningful and fulfilling lives.
We are seeking an ambitious and motivated quality professional who is ready to take the next step in their career and help shape the future of quality, compliance and continuous improvement across our organisation.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has built strong experience within adult social care and is now looking to move into their first Head of Department role.
About the Role
As Head of Quality, Compliance & Continuous Improvement, you will join our Senior Leadership Team and play a key role in driving quality and service excellence across the Trust.
Working closely with operational leaders, you will provide strategic oversight of:
- Quality assurance and improvement
- CQC compliance and inspection readiness
- Governance and organisational assurance
- Safeguarding oversight Audit and quality monitoring programmes
- Learning from incidents, complaints and investigations
- Continuous improvement and organisational learning
- Health and safety assurance
- Quality reporting to Executive and Board levels
This role is focused on helping services achieve excellence through strong assurance, support and continuous improvement.
Who We're Looking For
We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates with experience in one or more of the following settings:
- Experience of driving quality improvement across multiple services and locations.
- Experience of translating audit, incident, safeguarding and complaints data into service improvements.
- Experience of supporting operational managers through regulatory inspections and improvement plans.
You may currently be working as a:
- Quality Manager
- Regional Quality Manager
- Quality Improvement Manager
- Governance and Compliance Manager
- Operations Manager
- Registered Manager with multi-site responsibility
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Strong knowledge of adult social care regulation and quality standards
- Experience of preparing for and supporting inspections
- Experience of audits, action planning and quality improvement
- The ability to analyse information and identify trends and risks
- Excellent relationship-building and influencing skills
- A passion for improving outcomes for autistic people and people with learning disabilities
Why Join The Kent Autistic Trust?
This is a rare opportunity to:
Shape a developing quality function Join a supportive and ambitious Executive Team Influence organisation-wide improvement Develop your career at senior leadership level Make a genuine difference to the lives of autistic people
If you are a quality professional looking for the next step in your career and are passionate about improving services for autistic people and people with learning disabilities, we would love to hear from you.
Come and help us shape the future of quality at The Kent Autistic Trust.
For a confidential discussion in respect of this role please contact Donna Newell, Head of HR on 01634 477171 to arrange a call back.
Apply today and help shape the future of quality and excellence at The Kent Autistic Trust.
Please Note
- We are unable to accept applications via recruitment agencies for this role.
- We are unable to accept applications from those requiring sponsorship visas.
- Employment is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
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