Jobs in Reading, United Kingdom

The vacancy is preferable to someone situated in or around the Berkshire area of the UK (i.e. Reading and M4/M25 corridor).

£45,000 salary + Car Allowance.

With over 25 years’ experience and more than 260 care homes and six independent hospitals, Barchester is one of the UK’s foremost care providers. We’re not stopping there: our mission is to provide the best possible person‑centred care to elderly and vulnerable people, so we’re growing and improving our services.

We have a new exciting opportunity for an additional Quality Improvement and Regulation Manager within the Regulation and Quality Improvement Team at Barchester Healthcare.

Quality Improvement and Regulation Managers support the Lead Quality Improvement and Regulation Managers, the Director of Nursing and Deputy Director of Regulation and Quality Improvement to achieve Barchester’s business objectives in attaining regulatory compliance, and driving continuous quality improvements throughout the business.

The role is home based with regular travel to our services. Therefore, you must possess a full UK driving licence, have access to a car and be prepared to travel. There is a requirement for some overnight stays.

• Plan and deliver against the annual Quality Improvement Review (QIR) and support visit schedule to ensure the business can deliver good and outstanding quality services compliant with the regulations and Barchester’s internal policies, procedures and values.
• Monitor and review data to inform risk‑based responses.
• Provide day‑to‑day central support, advice and guidance to the business on regulatory and quality improvement matters.
• Provide constructive feedback on quality improvement review findings to drive continuous quality improvement.
• Write reports and action plans to drive quality improvement.
• Attend regional meetings to share updates, common themes and best practices.
• Work on a rota basis on our Regulation Duty Desk function to ensure responses to external stakeholders provide assurances.
• Be involved in key quality improvement projects.
• Draft, review and refresh relevant policies and key guidance as required.

• Must have experience in health and social care regulation, quality improvement, registered manager role or health and social care inspection frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of health and social care regulations, the current regulatory climate and quality improvement strategies.
• Ability to review evidence, assess against required standards and possess excellent analytical skills.
• Confident and enthusiastic about regulation and quality improvement.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Positive and solution‑focused attitude.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring.
• Ability to motivate others and drive change and improvement.
• Resilient and flexible.
• Ability to work to Key Performance Indicators and tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality and attention to detail.

In addition to a competitive salary, we can offer impressive benefits which would include a bonus, car, laptop, mobile phone, pension scheme contribution and free training and development. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to grow your career in a large organisation with a warm and supportive environment.