Quality & Compliance Officer
- Employer: Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
- Salary: Grade H, SCP 26 - 30, Salary £34,834 - £38,223 (pay award pending)
- Location: Magdalen House
- Contract: Permanent
- Working Pattern: Full Time
- Hours: 36 hours per week.
- DBS Check: Enhanced
- Closing Date: 08/09/2024 at 23:59
- Reference: ASC/24/290463
The quality and compliance officer apposition is a challenging and rewarding role. The role requires officers to work with commissioned providers to maintain safe services within a continuous quality improvement approach.
The role includes undertaking onsite visits and virtual audits, in line with the council’s quality and compliance frameworks to ensure best outcomes for people who use services and to ensure the commissioning of high quality and best value services by the council.
The role will incorporate attending relevant meetings including safeguarding strategy meetings, investigating complaints, data analysis, report writing, and the development, monitoring and evaluating key performance indicators in place for services.
This will be enabled through building of relationships with external partners, such as providers, Health and the Care Quality Commission. he post also requires collaboration with internal partners, managing, and escalating risk and developing the market to meet the ongoing challenges within adult social care.
The quality and compliance team are part of an integrated and overarching strategic commissioning and transformation function and is a key relationship holder for over 300 adult social care commissioned services across Sefton with an important level of responsibility and accountability.
Equal Opportunities
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Sefton Council strives to ensure that our workforce is inclusive and representative of our communities. A diverse workforce is important to us, our staff bring with them a wide range of experiences, views, ideas, and innovations, and we are committed to providing an environment that recognises, respects, and values everybody’s identity, where individual differences are strengths and where everyone can thrive and maximise their potential. We are always open to learning and growing as an organisation, and we welcome new ideas and initiatives that promote equality, diversity and inclusion.
We are an Equal Opportunities Employer; all candidates will receive equal treatment. Our decision to appoint will be based upon whether an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and abilities make them the most suitable candidate for the role.
GUARANTEED INTERVIEW SCHEME
Please note that all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for these jobs (as given in the Person Specification) and who want to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme will be invited to interview.
If you are currently in care or have previously been in care, we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for care experienced people if you meet the essential requirements for the role.
How to apply
Please apply online via the link provided.
Please note, we do not accept CV’s (unless specified on the advert).
Please fully complete the online application form.
