Grade E3: £75,183 per annum
Contracted Hours: Full-time 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Homebased, with travel as required
Closing Date: Monday 25th May 2026 at 11.59pm
Interview Date: w/c 6th July 2026 – face to face in Stratford, London Office or Newcastle Upon Tyne Office
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Role Overview
As Deputy Director of Hospitals, you’ll support the Chief Inspector and Inspectorate Senior Leadership to deliver CQC’s strategy, strengthen performance, and help rebuild our organisation so it is fit for the future. You will need to build close relationships with directors and colleagues in the wider inspectorates.
Four roles are available, each supporting one Inspectorate: Hospitals, Primary Care & Community Services, Mental Health, and Adult Social Care. While aligned to a specific sector, these roles are integral to working across Inspectorates to enable joined‑up, consistent approaches and enhance collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Inspectorate’s leadership and delivery: Ensure the Chief Inspector and Directors are well supported to lead their Inspectorate, with clear priorities, strong oversight and effective use of time and resources.
- Coordinate and connect teams: Make sure relationships and programmes of work across Inspectorates and with corporate partners work well, so the Inspectorate’s work is joined up and well supported.
- Provide strategic insight and assurance: Bring together performance, risk and delivery information to give the Chief Inspector and Directors a clear picture of progress, emerging issues and opportunities to improve quality and consistency.
Key Experience & Skills
- Executive and strategic support: Proven experience supporting a senior leader or executive team to deliver a large, complex portfolio of work, including setting priorities, planning activity, managing budgets, enabling effective governance and tracking delivery against organisational strategy in a national or complex organisation.
- Regulatory leadership and assurance: Experience leading or overseeing operational delivery in a regulatory or assurance‑based environment, including managing risk, performance, quality and enforcement activity, and using sound judgement within the health and social care system.
- Collaborative delivery and informed decision‑making: Experience delivering results through matrix working across functions, building effective relationships with senior stakeholders, and using data and insight to produce clear advice, briefings or recommendations that support decision‑making during change.
- Quality Management System expertise: Demonstrable knowledge and experience in building and implementing Quality Management system to drive planning, improvement, and assurance.
Benefits
- Annual leave – starting at 27 days per year, rising to 32.5 days with service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
- Training and development opportunities.
- Wellbeing initiatives – gym discounts and meditation.
- NHS pension scheme, with around 14% employer contribution.
- Discount schemes (including eligibility for Blue Light Card, costing £4.99 and valid for 2 years), reward vouchers, car leasing and more.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We promote a workplace where fairness, respect and inclusion are a priority. We welcome applications from everyone, and our employee networks support people of any of the following categories:
- Age
- Sex
- Gender identity or expression
- Sexual orientation
- Religion or belief
- Ethnicity
- Disability
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