Company: Care Quality Commission
Location:
Posted: May 14th, 2026
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: Monday25th May 2026 at 11.59pm
Interview Date: w/c6th July 2026 please note, these will be face to face in either our Stratford, London Office or Newcastle Upon Tyne Office
Make a difference
Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If youre looking for a new role that offers purpose at a pivotal moment for the organisation, youve found it.
As Deputy Director of Hospitals, youll support the Chief Inspector and Inspectorate Senior Leadershipto deliver CQCs strategy, strengthen performance, and help rebuild our organisation so it is fit for the future. To achieve this, you will need to build close relationships with directors and colleagues in the wider inspectorates
We arerecruiting four roles,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.
Picture this
You work at the heart of a Chief Inspectors Office, helping a small central team run smoothly while supporting clear priorities, strong relationships and confident leadership across the system.
In the last year as a Deputy Director for the Inspectorate Office, you might have:
. Helped a Chief Inspector and Directors drive strategic delivery and performance during a period of organisational change, ensuring priorities stayed focused and achievable.
. Worked alongside other Deputy Directors to align crosssector priorities, sharing insight and learning so approaches were consistent across health and care.
The role
Youll work closely with others to deliver shared outcomes. In this role, youll:
. Support the Inspectorates 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 Inspectorates 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.
Show us
We will be looking for specific skills, knowledge and experience in your application form:
. 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 assurancebased environment, including managing risk, performance, quality and enforcement activity, and using sound judgement within the health and social care system.
. Collaborative delivery and informed decisionmaking: 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 decisionmaking during change.
. Quality Management Systemexpertise:Demonstrable knowledge and experience in building and implementing Quality Management system to drive planning, improvement, and assurance.
Apply today and be part of CQCs work to strengthen health and care, making a real difference for people across England.
You can read the full details of the role in the followingJob DescriptionandCandidate Information Pack:
Job Description
Candidate Information Pack
How to apply
To apply for this role, please submit a copy of your CV and Supporting Statement(no morethan 750-words)via the Recruitment System.
Your Supporting Statement should cover the following:
- How your previous experience makes you suitable for this role?
- What strengths you will bring to the role?
Compliance
To progress your application, youll need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Without valid right to work you wont be eligible for the role.We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.Some roles may also be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.
Next steps
If you apply, youll need to create a profile and complete an online application form. Please see ourinformation for applicantsfor more details on the process.We contact every applicantto let them know the outcome of their application, so you will hear from us whether you are shortlisted.
If youd like to have an informal chat about the role you can contact Maggie Kemmner, Director of Hospitals, maggie.kemmner@cqc.org.uk. For general enquiries, please email recruitment@cqc.org.uk.
The Benefits
We offer a wide range ofbenefits, including:
Please see ourbenefitspage for the full list.
Equity for all
We know job descriptions can feel intimidating. Research shows they can cause some people to doubt whether theyre a good fit. This happens more often to people from underrepresented groups (e.g. ethnic minority backgrounds).If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply.Your unique perspective, skills, and experience could be exactly what we need.
We want every candidate to feel supported and able to do their best. If you need adjustments to our process,well work with you to remove any barriers. Visit ouraccessibility pagefor more on this. If youd like to chat, please contactrecruitment@cqc.org.uk.
We promote a workplace wherefairness, respect and inclusion are a priority. See ourED&I pagefor more about this.
We welcome applications fromeveryone,and colleagues can find support and community among our many employee networks.This includes people of any:
A Note on AI
We know AI tools can be great for research and refining ideas, but we want to learn about you. If you use AI or Chatbots to help you with your application, keep these points in mind:
AI can support research, structuring and refining your writing, but your applicationmustreflectyour real skills and experience.
Spell-checking and condensing word counts are great ways to use AI effectively.
Do notcopy and paste AI generated answers. These will not help you stand out; remember we want to hear about your skills and experience.
Providing false and insincere examples goes against our core values of honesty and integrity andmay lead to your application being withdrawnor termination of your employment.
Values and vision
We are guided by ourcore values, which shape our work and our culture.
Excellence being a high-performing organisation.
Caring treating everyone with dignity and respect.
Integrity doing the right thing.
Teamwork learning from each other to be the best we can.
We are a disability confident employer and a carer confident employer.