Clinical Compliance and Quality Lead – Specialist Community NHS Services

Salary: £45,000 + travel allowance for clinic visits
Location: South London
Role: Registered Healthcare Professional Essential
Employment Type: Hybrid | Full-Time | Permanent | Travel Required

Are you a clinically credible leader with a passion for training, governance and regulatory compliance?

Do you enjoy developing clinical teams, embedding professional standards and helping services remain inspection-ready?

We are partnering with an independent healthcare provider delivering NHS community services across London and the South East. As the organisation continues to grow it is looking to strengthen its clinical governance and regulatory assurance, they are looking to appoint a Clinical Compliance and Quality Lead to support safe, effective, caring and well-led services across their clinical teams.

This is a brand-new role, reporting into the Clinical Director where you will sit within an existing quality team of four people who conduct clinic inspections across different areas, providing clinical guidance and mentorship while working closely with the Clinical Director to implement deeper investigations, support initiatives and practice improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the clinical lead for embedding CQC and other regulatory standards into routine practice across all locations
• Translate regulatory standards into practical, role-specific expectations for the clinical team
• Enable teams to confidently demonstrate compliant practice during inspections, clinical walkarounds and audits
• Use training, supervision and competence assurance to improve compliance and inspection outcomes
• Provide visible clinical leadership for Nurses and other AHCPs, promoting patient safety, dignity, safeguarding and effective care
• Act as a role model for professional behaviour and NHS values
• Support clinical team members to practise safely within defined scope and escalate concerns appropriately
• Lead recruitment of Nurses and other AHCPs, with a focus on clinical values, aptitude, patient-centred care and compliant in-clinic practice
• Support safe staffing, appropriate skill mix and future workforce development through effective recruitment decisions
• Promote inclusive recruitment and progression pathways for clinical team members
• Support the design and delivery of structured, clinically robust induction programmes
• Ensure competence assessment, sign-off and reassessment are clinically meaningful, consistent and auditable
• Support and develop AHCPs as local educators, mentors and role models
• Work with the Clinical Director and Quality Team to ensure training content is mapped to CQC expectations and clinical risk
• Monitor clinical training compliance and take targeted action where gaps present a risk to patient safety or regulatory compliance
• Support locations to maintain continuous inspection readiness through clinical competence and practice
• Participate in mock inspections and preparation activities
• Support action plans following inspections, audits or incidents, with a focus on education and practice change
• Use incidents, complaints, audits and patient feedback to identify learning needs and drive in-clinic improvement
• Contribute to governance and quality forums
• Support the development and review of clinical policies, SOPs and guidance relating to in-clinic regulatory compliance