Vacancy Details

Description

Directorate: Adult Social Care and All Age Commissioning

Section: Quality and Compliance

Grade: Level 9 (subject to review)

Salary: £35,235 - £37,938 (subject to review)

Hours: 37

 

This is a great opportunity to join a brand-new team based within Stoke-on-Trent Councils Adult Social Care and All Age Commissioning Directorate, as a Quality and Compliance Officer (Permanent Post Indicative Grade 9) to support the senior management team to deliver against their plans for continuous improvement and compliance with the highest quality standards.

 

If you understand the use of effective communications tools, are a good communicator, with project management skills and passionate about making a difference through effective engagement and co-production, to bring about improvements in services, then we want to hear from you.

 

The Quality and Compliance Team will lead, support, advise, guide and direct the Adult Social Care and All Age Commissioning Directorate in effective compliance processes and administration, to include ensuring all relevant documentation is updated and maintained between inspections/peer reviews; all logistical arrangements are managed; and strategic data and liquid logic management is alignment with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards. Ensuring services meet the highest quality benchmarks and the local authority fulfils its legal and regulatory requirements and the authority’s own objectives.

 

This will require leadership and support of robust strategic planning, governance, policy implementation, use of project management skills, including needs analysis, research and strategic policy and procedure review and maintenance, engagement and developing strategic planning documents. 

 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment.  This position is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the successful applicant will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

 

Please note that if an employee who is currently at risk of redundancy within the organisation applies for this vacancy their application will receive priority.  If this happens you will be advised accordingly.

 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Stoke-on-Trent City Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this – we therefore encourage applications from all sections of our community. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed together.

 

To Apply

Please create / log into your account and then click 'apply'.  If you have any queries or want an application form in another format, please email recruitment@stoke.gov.uk or call us on 01782 238189.

 

In order to apply for this vacancy, you must be able to supply the required answers to the following questions: