Total 5 Manager level Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Headington, Home Counties, OX3 9NX

About The Company
Childrens Quality Assurance Manager
Reporting To: Group Quality Assurance & Inspection Manager

Location: National
At Salutem, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live a healthy, active and fulfilling life, regardless of their background or disability. The aim of our services is to provide safe and stimulating environments for adults and young people that allows choice and control towards independence.
To ensure the highest standards of quality in the provision of care and support for adults and young people, the Quality Manager will oversee the implementation of quality assurance processes, ensure compliance with relevant regulations, and lead initiatives for continuous improvement in service delivery.
To work alongside the Interim Group Quality Assurance and Inspection Manager, in providing robust monitoring and governance systems in ensuring that Salutem locations comply as a minimum to quality performance key indicators and exceed regulatory requirements and support identified locations on a journey towards Outstanding.

- Ensuring there is a consistent approach to best practice in the provision of identified outcomes and as a minimum ensuring all locations are ‘inspection ready’.
- Ensure compliance with local, national, and international regulations and standards, such as those set by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) or equivalent bodies.
- Conduct regular audits, assessments, and inspections of locations, identifying areas for improvement and ensuring corrective actions are taken.
- To drive and ensure quality initiatives and improvements at a national and regional levels to assist locations to achieve outstanding and excellence in performance outcomes.
- Monitor the quality of care provided, conducting regular observations and audits to ensure compliance with standards and to identify training needs.
- To provide support and information to senior and registered managers to enable effective responses to regulatory reports.
- To develop and maintain effective working relationships with external local compliance managers and inspectors that ensures effective and regular communication.
- To work closely with the shared service teams to ensure a consistent and robust approach to achieving best practice.
- To undertake quality assurance assessments and inspections in line with the Salutem Assessment Framework.
- Monitor incidents, complaints, and safeguarding concerns, ensuring they are investigated promptly and effectively.
- To keep abreast of landscape regulatory (CQC, Ofsted, CIW and Estyn) changes working collaboratively with colleagues to meet maintain compliance.

Location: National remit for all divisions
Hours: 40 hours a week

About The Role
Work Alongside the Interim Group Quality Assurance and Inspection Manager, set quality improvement objectives and recommendations for the company that are bench marked against all legal frameworks and external and internal accepted standards, research and good practice and track and report this progress against clear targets. Undertaking internal regulatory compliance inspections in agreement with the Interim Group Quality Assurance and Inspection Manager and ensure that annual program of inspections is achieved and that responses to significant events or locations that have characteristics of under performing are inspected and supported.

- Promote and implement person-centered planning, ensuring that care plans are tailored to the individual needs, preferences, and aspirations of individuals we support.
- Monitor the effectiveness of person-centered plans, making adjustments as necessary to improve outcomes for individuals we support.
- Provide day-to-day leadership and guidance to staff, ensuring that they deliver high-quality, person-centered care.
- Role model best practices in care delivery, demonstrating effective techniques and approaches in working with individuals we support.
- Support staff in developing their practice, providing coaching, feedback, and mentoring to enhance their skills and confidence.
- Ensure that accurate and timely collection of meaningful quality data and reports are provided to the group leadership teams to ensure that an understanding of benchmarks of standards and regulations are present in services.
- Ensure that staff are up-to-date with the latest developments in care standards, regulations, and effective practices.
- Develop, implement and monitor relevant and appropriate action plans in relation to non-compliance and/or poor performance.
- To provide thematic reports to Interim Group Quality Assurance and Inspection Manager of internal and external compliance reviews including lessons learnt.
- Contribute to policy development to ensure that company policy is relevant to current regulatory requirements.
- Ensure that any issues or concerns of compliance, standards of care and legislative regulations are identified, understood and planned and in partnership with Interim Group Quality Assurance and Inspection Manager and shared services, implement change where this is required, to a level that meets the outstanding outcomes.
- Working with the Interim Group Quality Assurance and Inspection Manager to lead on specific projects to ensure that appropriate location development strategies are in place to support the varying complexities of People who use services, incorporating industry best practice and to be a leader in their respective field.
- Develop manage and maintain strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders in regard to Compliance and Quality concerns.
- Be an ambassador for the group on quality, communicating key initiatives and driving the message of the importance of quality across all sites within the Salutem.
- To ensure appropriate quality has continuous improvement in practice leadership in all areas for the people who Salutem support.
- Exercise strong leadership in a style and manner consistent with the company’s values, ensuring the ever-changing needs of Salutem are communicated and represented.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of quality assurance activities, audits, assessments, and action plan.
- Develop and promote an open and fair culture to ensure that Quality concerns are managed appropriately, focusing on corrective action and lessons learnt.
- Secure effective engagement with senior managers, departmental leads, Regional Directors and Registered Managers to encourage cross professional collaboration to enable locations to achieve outstanding and excellence in performance outcomes.
- Identifying areas of service improvement inline Salutem service improvement process.

Regulatory Compliance

- Implement appropriate methods to monitor compliance against UK wide regulation through the use of regular internal compliance inspections.
- Proactively assist Registered Managers and staff, when necessary, in the successful execution of regulatory inspections.
- Ensure that there is a robust system for managing and having oversight on notifications to the regulator and to communicate these to senior managers where this creates an organisational risk.
- Develop sound systems to ensure that all regulatory evidence is effectively collated and updated and accessible at location level.
- Provide assistance and direction to Registered Managers when responding to compliance reports and developing action plans as required with clear timeframes embedded within the action plans.
- Undertake internal regulatory compliance inspections as per an annual program and in response to significant events.
- Working with the Interim Group Quality Assurance and Inspection Manager develop and implement appropriate professional standards and monitor adherence to policies and procedures at all levels within the group to ensure continued compliance.
- Ensure that excellence in communication and engagement of staff, individuals we support, and stakeholders is at the center of everything we do.
- To support and contribute to the development of the quality strategy.
- To support and contribute to the development of the annual quality assurance and regulatory report.

Our Values

- We are Supportive by promoting opportunities for everyone so they can reach their full potential
- We are very Ambitious to provide the best possible outcomes for the people who use our services
- We are Loyal because we put the people that we support and our staff at the center of everything we do, and we deliver on our promises. We also are committed to ensuring that our services are meeting the needs of all stakeholders.
- We are Unique because we are ambitious and innovative about the diversity of the services that we provide without compromising quality
- We are Transparent by being open, honest and fostering a culture of mutual respect. We promote a culture where we learn by our experiences, and we are committed to doing things better and setting the highest standards in what we do.
- We are Engaging because we work in partnership with the people that we support, our staff and all our stakeholders
- We encourage everyone to experience a Meaningful life by being aspirational and by offering opportunities

Personal Skills and attributes

- Demonstrates awareness, diplomacy, sensitivity and empathy with the issues of vulnerability, disability and independence.
- Demonstrates the ability to plan and manage the workload required to meet the compliance aspects of the organisation.
- Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Shows the ability to be flexible, respond positively to change, and work effectively under pressure and deal with conflicting priorities.
- Provides evidence of effective IT skills.
- Has a proven, extensive experience of working in a social care, training, or health setting.
- Demonstrates a commitment to ongoing personal development.
- This is an outline of the post holder’s key duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change according to service needs, following discussion with the post holder.


Essential Core Competencies

- Degree level educated in health or social care related area is desirable.
- Minimum 5 years health/Social care experience.
- Experienced of UK healthcare regulation and full understanding of the principles of regulation and compliance.
- Clinical audit and effectiveness experience.
- Experience in delivering change within an organisation.
- Experience of responding to compliance shortfalls in a systematic way.
- Experience in communicating at a range of levels within an organisation.
- Experience of planning and delivering training.
- Experience of Policy development and implementation.
- Experience of working with individuals supported to improve service delivery and experience.
- Proven track record of developing effective partnerships and joint working both internally and externally with outcomes that benefit people we support and builds the reputation of Salutem as a leader in excellence.
- Demonstrable knowledge of how to create and maintain a competent management information system including the care management systems.
- Demonstrable knowledge of the statutory, regulatory, and legislative framework applicable together with the key operational issues relevant to the specific post.
- Capacity to work under pressure, meet competing deadlines and organisational priorities with the ability and willingness to empower others through effective delegation.
- Experience of or demonstrable ability to provide high quality, management information reports for senior colleagues.
- Specific role-based competencies
- Proven track record in leading the development, impact measurement and evaluation of policy and procedure development and its dissemination.
- Demonstrable experience in the development, delivery and evaluation of inspections and their outcomes.
- Awareness of or experience of working within a Quality Assurance environment.
- Demonstrable commitment to and experience of welcoming diversity/diverse ways of working and co-production as standard practice.
- Demonstrable commitment to contributing to the embedded learning culture of the Quality Team.


Personal Qualities

- Supporting Salutem: Leads by example and represents Salutem positively and accurately.
- Taking responsibility: Takes responsibility for, maintaining a no blame culture while ensuring people are accountable and can learn from their mistakes.
- Solving problems: Anticipates risks and works across teams to deal with and find resolutions.
- Valuing People we support: Ensures that teams consistently deliver quantifiably excellent customer service.
- Working as part of a team: Builds and maintains performance by coaching, mentoring, developing and managing effectively.
- Travel and residence.
- Regular business trips will be required throughout England and Wales and potentially elsewhere that may require overnight stays or longer as business needs dictate.

Your new company

My client's energy solutions tackle energy dilemmas head-on, facilitating the UK's shift to a low-carbon economy. Each of their projects provides essential power and services to the National Grid, as well as to industrial and commercial clients. Their expertise, technology, and adaptability are crucial for the UK to meet its ambitious net-zero targets.
Supported by a global investor in energy and infrastructure, they are the UK's largest owner and operator of flexible power plants, with 900MW currently operational and over 1GW in the early stages of development. To put this into perspective, they can already supply power for an hour to approximately 1.8 million homes, with an additional 2 million homes in the pipeline.

Your new role

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring environmental compliance is adhered to across the Company's portfolio of sites (including flexible power generation, BESS, wind and solar) sites
• Accountable for the management of statutory environmental permit requirements, such as but not limited to, emissions monitoring and reporting
• Responsible for the maintenance of UK-ETS permits and procedures, including annual verifications
• Ensuring all new sites in development or construction obtain statutory environmental permits in line with key project timescales
• Providing key input intothe portfolio carbon reporting procedures (ESOS, ISO 50001 etc.)
• Managing variations to existing environmental permits that may be required
• Maintaining and establishing long-term relationships with environmental regulators and third-party consultants
• Act as internal expert on environmental legislation and regulation and improve environmental awareness throughout the business
• Representing the business at workshops, industry forums and working groups as required
• Carrying out internal environmental auditing and host audits of our sites by the Regulators
• Responsibility for assessing new and changing environmental legislation and providing responses to key government consultations
• Be a key consultee at relevant design process meetings, attending and providing input at all stages of the design process and lifecycle of projects.
• Working closely with key internal stakeholders on all environmental matters
• Travel will be required as part of the role, therefore own transport is essential with occasional overnight stays if necessary
• Managing one direct report who will assist with the above responsibilities

What you need to succeed

• Degree in a relevant field
• Membership (or working towards) of a relevant professional body (i.e. IEMA, IES, IAQM etc.)
• Proven experience in environmental management and compliance practices
• Demonstrable experience in managing environmental permitting processes, preferably with MCP's and specified generators
• Demonstrable experience in analysing complex analytical environmental datasets
• Greenhouse gas calculation and reporting experience would be desirable
• Competent knowledge of the environmental permitting regulations (installation, Medium Combustion Plants (MCPD), Specified Generators and Flood Risk Activities)
• Competent with new and evolving environmental legislation and policy
• Good general knowledge of low carbon technologies and renewable energy technologies
• Managing multiple projects under tight time deadlines
• Self-motivated, with diligence, integrity, and ambition
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Capable of understanding technical concepts and explain effectively to key stakeholders

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary dependent on experience - Up to £70,000 for the perfect candidate
• Discretionary performance-based bonus - 20% annually
• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Insurance
• SimplyHealth health cashback plan
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including Cycle to Work, Childcare, Grocery, and Electric Vehicle leasing
• Access to free financial advisors
• Retail discounts
• 24/7 Private GP access
• Flexible working - home based if you wish
• Training and Development
• Salary sacrifice EV scheme
• Discounts on Lightwave RF smart home products
• Dog-friendly office

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Location: Remote UK, United Kingdom

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Cyber Security Assurance Manager

We have a brand new role for a Cyber Assurance Manager to join our growing Cyber Competency Centre, providing Thales UK business units with Cyber Security expertise.

Reporting to the UK Head of Cyber and the assigned domain Technical Director for the assurance of through-life cybersecurity engineering activities relating to products and solutions within the domain:

Key responsibilities:

• Participating in key technical reviews for all bids and projects within the scope of their assignment.
• Verifying that cybersecurity risks have been identified, assessed and managed within bids and projects in agreement with the delegated authorities for engineering security risk approval in Thales UK.
• Reviewing the principle security artefacts and security deliverables (as defined within the Cybersecurity Management Plan) and advising the security practitioners on the artefact’s completeness and fitness for purpose.
• Maintaining sector based specific knowledge in their area of responsibility.
   
• Overseeing the continued (cyber) assurance activities of products and solutions within the scope of their assignment. This should include all relevant phases of DDQS and in-service assurance.
• Articulating the cybersecurity risks of products and solutions, and the assessment of potential/proposed risk management options.
• Supporting the cybersecurity assurance aspects of product policy and road mapping
• Supporting Business Unit leadership’s cybersecurity transformation, including general cybersecurity upskilling and knowledge transfer within domain
• Assist customers in the routine development of Operational Technology (OT) security practices

Location: Can be flexible on Base location (Reading, Crawley, Bristol, Ebbw Vale, Cheadle, Doncaster, Home Start) ; Circa. 40% remote but will need to be flexible to travel around the numerous Thales & Customer facilities/locations.

What we are looking for:

• A background with Cyber Security Engineering
• Operated in multi stakeholder environments with the ability to influence to ensure right outcomes are reached.
• Experience of guiding complex projects through security risks and mitigation activities
• Have worked with external partners and accreditation bodies
• Experience of applying cybersecurity to OT, IOT and/or embedded environments.
• Ability to apply secure by design approach through engineering lifecycle and in service.
• Understand where and how key cybersecurity technologies are applied, the fundamentals behind the technology and the ability to assess suitability of candidate products.
• Ability to articulate (and distinguish between) cyber security and cyber resilience approaches.

Desirable:

• CISSP Accreditation

• CCP Architect

• SABSA Chartered Security Arch – Foundation & Practitioner

• IEng/CEng

YOUR CAREER AT THALES
Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competences in different areas:

Room and attention to personal development
Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path
Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group

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