Registered Manager (CQC)
Job Description & Recruitment Advert
Reports to: CEO (clinical governance jointly with the Medical Director)
Hours: Full time, aligned to operating hours 08:00–22:00
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Start: Sep/Oct 2026, with CQC registration process beginning earlier
PART 1 · JOB DESCRIPTION
Role purpose
- Act as the nominated CQC Registered Manager for Bloom Health, accepting personal legal responsibility for the regulated activities.
- Lead regulatory compliance, clinical and corporate governance, and safe, high-quality care across urgent care, diagnostics, pharmacy and the growing planned care corridor.
- Combine hands-on governance with commercial understanding of how independent healthcare operates.
Regulatory compliance and CQC
- Hold the Registered Manager position, meeting all conditions of registration and the fit and proper person requirement.
- Maintain compliance with the fundamental standards and the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
- Own all CQC notifications, evidence and inspection readiness (Bloom is registered and awaiting first inspection).
- Ensure IR(ME)R and ionising radiation compliance across CT and X-ray, and equipment governance across all diagnostics (CT, MRI referral pathways, ultrasound, ECG, echo).
- Maintain PHIN and other statutory registration and reporting.
Governance, quality and safety
- Own the governance framework: policies, audit cycles, risk register and management review.
- Lead patient safety under PSIRF, safeguarding (adults and children), infection prevention and control, and duty of candour.
- Manage serious incident reporting, complaints handling and learning.
- Oversee medicines management and controlled drugs governance across the pharmacy.
- Chair or coordinate governance and quality meetings with associated reporting.
Operational leadership
- Oversee day-to-day safe running of the site across the full operating model.
- Support governance and build-out of the planned care corridor across adult and paediatric specialties.
- Line manage clinical and operational staff; ensure training, appraisal, revalidation and mandatory competencies are current.
Commercial and private healthcare
- Support PMI accreditation and insurer relationships.
- Ensure robust governance around self-pay, membership and referral pathways.
- Contribute to safe, compliant service growth without compromising standards.
Information governance
- Ensure UK GDPR and information governance compliance, including DPIAs and clinical records standards.
Person specification
Essential
Desirable
- Proven experience in private or independent healthcare.
- Strong governance and compliance track record.
- Clear working knowledge of how private healthcare operates commercially and clinically (PMI, self-pay, referral models).
- Detailed CQC knowledge: registration, notifications, inspection and the fundamental standards.
- Eligible and willing to register with CQC as Registered Manager, including the fit person interview.
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management, or clinical registration, or equivalent senior leadership experience.
- Strong leadership, communication and decision-making skills.
- Currently or recently registered with CQC as a Registered Manager (an active or recent registration is an advantage, though not required).
- Track record of achieving or maintaining a CQC rating of Good or Outstanding.
- Clinical registration (NMC, HCPC or GMC).
- Experience of diagnostics governance and IR(ME)R.
- Experience of PMI accreditation and insurer negotiations.
- Experience opening or scaling new services or sites.
PART 2 · RECRUITMENT ADVERT
Registered Manager (CQC)
Independent Hospital · Milton Keynes
Competitive salary, dependent on experience · Full time · On-site
Bloom Health Hospitals is a CQC-registered independent hospital in Central Milton Keynes, offering urgent care, advanced diagnostics, pharmacy and a rapidly growing planned care corridor across multiple specialties. We are ambitious, fast-moving, and building something significant in private healthcare.
We are looking for an experienced Registered Manager to hold our CQC registration and lead governance, compliance and quality as we scale.
What you'll do
- Act as our nominated CQC Registered Manager, accountable for our regulated activities.
- Lead clinical and corporate governance, audit, risk and patient safety under PSIRF.
- Own diagnostics and medicines governance, including IR(ME)R and controlled drugs.
- Support our PMI accreditation programme and insurer relationships.
- Drive quality across walk in services, diagnostics and planned care as we grow.
What we're looking for
- Solid experience in private or independent healthcare.
- A strong governance and compliance background.
- Genuine understanding of how private healthcare works, commercially and clinically.
- Sound CQC knowledge and eligibility to register as a Registered Manager.
- Ideally a track record of Good or Outstanding CQC ratings.
- Already registered with CQC as a Registered Manager? Even better. If not, you'll need to be ready to register with us.
Why Bloom
- A rare chance to shape governance in a growing independent hospital with real scale ambition.
- Direct access to the founding leadership team and genuine influence.
- Competitive salary
Location: Central Milton Keynes, MK9 1AE
Hours: Full time, on-site
To apply: send your CV and a short covering note to [email protected]
Work Location: In person
