Director of Corporate Provider and Market Oversight

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England.

Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well as well as encouraging improvements and taking action over poorer care, where necessary.

We are committed to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network.

We have a regulatory duty for the market oversight of approximately 60 corporate providers of adult social care services. Its purpose is to protect people in vulnerable circumstances from the effects of the failure of ‘difficult to replace’ adult social care providers.

We’re now looking for a Director of Corporate Provider and Market Oversight to join us on a full-time, permanent basis.

Why this could be a great role for you….

This is an exceptional opportunity for a high-calibre leader with experience of operating at a senior level, dealing with Government Departments and working across a range of different restructuring solutions to make a positive difference to the adult social care sector on a national level. You will be able to contribute to the entire healthcare sector through utilising your financial expertise.

Leading a small but dedicated team, you will grow this regulatory area, playing a vital role is scaling up and shaping services and disseminating best practice across our organisation and further afield.

What’s more, we are a values-driven organisation offering a positive working environment and a strong range of rewards. We encourage continuous improvement across our entire operational estate, fostering professional development at all levels and offering our senior team member the autonomy they need to thrive and make a real impact.

As our Director of Corporate Provider and Market Oversight, you will shape the function for adult social care (ASC) in order to meet reform from a market perspective.

Leading the Corporate Provider and Market Oversight Team, you will lead major transformational work of the Oversight team and advocate for adult social care with the Government to get much needed resources into the sector.

You will have a role in the investment committee and will drive corporate conversations around quality to support our focus on continuous improvement and enable our services to be of a suitable high quality.

As part of the market shaping function, you will identify themes and trends among providers, gaps and opportunities in the market, analyse how other external forces can affect the provision of care and bring a strategic and creative vision to drive forward this focus.

What you will bring…

To be considered as our Director of Corporate Provider and Market Oversight, you will need:

– Experience in a leadership role in a complex organisation
– Experience in dealing with Government Departments
– Experience across a range of different restructuring solutions
– Experience of working with professional advisers
– To be a corporate leader with investment and restructuring expertise
– Political acumen and the ability to think ahead to future governments and policy positions and prepare for them
– A good understanding of the healthcare sector
– An understanding of the relationship between organisational and wider economic improvement and the resilience to cope with this
– Investment and restructuring expertise
– Excellent stakeholder relationship management skills
– Self-motivation, a robust attitude, and a corporate player mentality with a keen understanding of trust

• – 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

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Job contact :

• Name : Recruitment Team
• Email : recruitment@cqc.org.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@cqc.org.uk