Deputy Director of Assurance & Risk

Homebased - Flexible, United Kingdom

Executive Level 3 - £73,150 per annum

Contracted Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week (potential for flexible working)

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Home-based with travel to CQC Offices as required

Closing Date: Tuesday 1st October at 11.59pm

Interview Dates: TBC via MS Teams

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role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.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….

CQC is committed to recovering its position as a trusted regulator ensuring that people who use health and adult social care services can rely on our judgments with full confidence. The Deputy Director of Assurance and Risk will play a pivotal role in this and within the CQC. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight of the organisation’s assurance, risk management, and control processes. This role ensures that the CQC operates within its regulatory framework, managing risks effectively, and maintaining robust internal controls. This role is pivotal in ensuring that service users who rely on the work of CQC can have confidence in the decisions made by CQC and its staff.

The Deputy Director will be expected to develop and lead a culture of compassion, credibility and capability.

They will also work closely with the Director of Governance, Performance and Improvement to develop and implement strategies that promote a culture of learning through continuous improvement and risk awareness across the organisation.

What we can offer you...

- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays

- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution

- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day

- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars

- Discounted gym vouchers

- Cycle to work scheme

- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!

- Equipment for homeworking

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...

You will be an engaging, knowledgeable and compassionate leader of people who can demonstrate that organisations are at their best when systems can be relied upon to inform strategic decision-making.

You’ll hold a relevant professional qualification in risk management, internal audit, finance, or a related field (e.g. IRM, CMIIA, ACCA, CIMA, ISO).

Skilled in the management of stakeholder relationships, you will be an exceptional communicator, politically astute, with the clear ability to motivate a team. You will have significant knowledge and demonstrable expertise in risk management, internal control, and assurance processes.

A strategic thinker, you will be analytical in your approach with the ability to translate strategic objectives into operational plans.  You’ll have a proven track record of developing and implementing risk management and assurance strategies that drive organisational improvement.

You’ll have a strong ethos of inclusive team working with a focus on team and individual wellbeing, an approach of working in partnership and collaboration with stakeholders and the public and a drive to encourage improvement.

The CQC Values of Excellence, Caring, Integrity and Teamwork will be at the heart of everything you do…

How to apply

To apply for this role, please submit a copy of your CV and Supporting Statement (no more than 750 words) via the Recruitment System.

Your Supporting Statement should cover the following:

- How does your previous experience make you suitable for this role?

- What strengths will you bring to the role?

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.

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.

For this role, we are particularly encouraging people from ethnically diverse communities and people with a disability to apply, who are currently under-represented at this level in the organisation.