Mental Health Inspector - South West

Every role at CQC contributes to our mission, if you’re looking for a new role in Operations that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose then you’ve found it! As a Mental Health Inspector, you’ll help make sure people receive safe, high-quality, and compassionate care when they need it most.

You’ll play an important part in delivering our mission. In this role, you’ll:

• Carry out inspections and assessments: Plan and lead on-site visits and off-site reviews, gathering evidence to assess the quality and safety of services.
• Manage risk and take action: Review information from different sources, identify concerns, and take proportionate regulatory action to keep people safe.
• Work with partners and share insight: Collaborate with colleagues, providers, and stakeholders, using data and feedback to support improvement across services.

You’re visiting a mental health service, speaking with people who use it, staff, and partners to understand how care is delivered and where it can improve. Your work helps shape decisions that keep people safe and drive better outcomes across services.

As a Mental Health Inspector in the Operations directorate, you might get the chance to work on:

• Leading an inspection into a service where concerns have been raised, bringing together evidence from multiple sources to identify risks and take action to protect people.
• Working with partners and stakeholders to spot emerging risks across a region and influence improvements in how services are delivered.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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