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About the Role

Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. As a Hospitals, Secondary and Specialist Care Inspector – Central East Network, you’ll help make sure people receive safe, effective and high-quality care. Each day brings new insight, from visiting a hospital ward to analysing information that helps shape safer services.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing care concerns raised by patients, families or staff and using this insight to trigger urgent assessment activity that protects people.
• Leading an on‑site inspection that identifies risks, supports improvement, and ensures a provider is held to account where safety standards aren’t met.
• Lead regulatory assessments: Carry out on‑site and off‑site assessments, develop inspection plans, and analyse information from many sources to build a clear picture of quality and safety.
• Guide and support others: Work with inspection teams, specialist advisors, and colleagues across the organisation to share insight, understand risks, and build strong relationships with providers and stakeholders.
• Use evidence to drive decisions: Record findings clearly, analyse data to spot trends, and make fair, risk‑based decisions that support people’s safety and wellbeing.

Requirements

• Experience assessing care or service quality, including making decisions based on risk and evidence.
• Experience working with different partners, including working with teams or external organisations to share information, solve problems, and support improvement in a professional and respectful way.
• Ability to analyse and use information, including reviewing data or intelligence from multiple sources and using it to make clear judgments, produce reports, or influence actions.
• Provide evidence of your right to work in the UK.
• Must not require sponsorship for this role.
• May be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

Skills

• Analysis
• Decision making
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Risk assessment

Location

• Central East area of England

Work Type

• Full time
• 37 hours per week
• Compressed hours may be accepted
• Permanent

Salary/Compensations

• £42,044 (National Framework)
• £47,900 (London Framework)
• £600 per annum homeworking allowance

Benefits

• Annual leave starting at 27 days per year, rising to 32.5 days with service, plus bank holidays
• Training and development opportunities
• Wellbeing initiatives, such as gym discounts and meditation
• NHS pension scheme, with around 14% employer contribution
• Discount schemes (including eligibility for a Blue Light card)
• Reward vouchers
• Car leasing

About the Company

• CQC is an organisation that values learning, collaboration, and meaning.
• We promote a workplace where fairness, respect and inclusion are a priority.
• Diverse teams make our work better, help us deliver our mission and make our culture stronger.
• We welcome applications from everyone.
• We are guided by our core values: Excellence, Caring, Integrity, Teamwork.
• We are a disability confident employer and a carer confident employer.

Equal Opportunity

• We want every candidate to feel supported and able to do their best. If you need adjustments to our process, we’ll work with you to remove any barriers.
• We welcome applications from everyone, and colleagues can find support and community among our many employee networks.
• This includes people of any: Age, Sex, Gender identity or expression, Sexual orientation, Religion or belief, Ethnicity, Disability.