Assurance and Standards Manager

Salary: Grade B - £39,390 (National Framework) or £44,792 (London Framework – if you are London office-based or home-based and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home

Contracted Hours: Full-time 37 hours per week or compressed hours/job share will also be considered.

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date: Sunday 7th July 2024 at 11.59 pm

Location: Home-based with regular meetings in London, Newcastle or Leeds offices.

About Us

We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and 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.

One of our main commitments is 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.

Our collaborative Quality Improvement team combine their skills and expertise to make changes which lead to better outcomes, better performance and better experience for everyone in England.

We are now looking for an Assurance and Standards Manager to join us on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- 27 days’ annual leave, 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

Why this could be a great role for you

This is the perfect opportunity for a qualified change manager with extensive experience in varying projects to join our dedicated organisation.

You will step into a pivotal role, driving excellence in health and adult social care across England.

What’s more, you can enjoy a comprehensive benefits package alongside enhancing your professional portfolio with impactful projects.

So, if you’re ready to elevate your career and join the team, apply today!

What you will bring…

To be considered as an Assurance and Standards Manager, you will need:

- Experience of delivering complex strategic projects and/or programmes that contain a significant element of business change and digital transformation
- Experience of assuring complex projects and programmes
- Experience of improving performance by coaching individuals and embedding new practices and Standards
- Good knowledge of a wide range of programme/project methodologies
- A P3O Practitioner qualification
- A PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification
- A Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner qualification

What you’ll be doing

As an Assurance and Standards Manager, you will maximise our operational effectiveness by driving priorities and Standards of programme and project delivery.

Within a small, high performing team of change professionals, you will work across our professional community to deliver all types of change in a recently-transformed, digital service-based environment.

You will provide Assurance and assess projects and programmes within the portfolio, ensuring that they meet the objectives and benefits specified within the business case.

Joining a cross-functional team, you will offer support and answer questions, making sure that project and programme delivery standards are clear to delivery teams.

You will champion best practice standards, tools, and processes across the portfolio, in line with Government and industry standards and requirements, and accelerate the maturity of
assurance activities.

Next steps

If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please contact our team or include a note in your application.

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.

So, if you’d like to join us as an Assurance and Standards Manager, please apply using the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Other organisations may call this role Quality Assurance Manager, Standards and Compliance Manager, Performance and Standards Manager, Regulatory Compliance Manager, or Quality and Standards Lead.