Care Quality Commission
Inspection Project Manager, Safehouses Team
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This advert is for current internal applicants only. External applications will be closed.
Grade C - £34,890 (National) or £40,746 (London - for London office based or home-based workers within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £600 per annum for those working from home.
Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Secondment/FTC until 31 March 2028
Closing date: Sunday 20 September 2026 at 11.59pm
Make a difference
Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in Primary Care & Community Services Directorate that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it.
As an Inspection Project Manager, in the Safehouses Team in National Operations you’ll help make sure key improvement programmes run smoothly, supporting high-quality regulation that helps keep people safe and improves care.
The Safehouses Team sits within National Operations and delivers a non-regulatory inspection programme commissioned by the Home Office which reports on the quality of support provided to survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking.
Picture this
Working as an Inspection Project Manager, no two days are the same. You’ll help turn ideas into action, working with a wide range of colleagues to improve how the directorate plans, delivers and monitors important programmes of work.
In the last year as an Inspection Project Manager in the Primary Care & Community Services Directorate, you might have:
- Led a project to review and improve governance processes, helping teams work more effectively and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Coordinated a cross-directorate programme, bringing together stakeholders, tracking progress and helping resolve risks to keep delivery on track.
The role
You’ll be key in helping us deliver our work. In this role, you’ll:
- Lead projects and programmes: Manage and coordinate projects across the safehouses programme, ensuring activities are planned, delivered and monitored effectively.
- Provide insight and oversight: Lead on governance oversight of the safehouses programme. Produce reports, briefings and updates that track progress, highlight risks and support informed decision-making.
- Support continuous improvement: Work with colleagues and stakeholders to solve issues, improve ways of working and strengthen operational performance.
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We will be looking for specific skills, knowledge and experience in your application form:
- Experience delivering projects from planning through to completion, using recognised project management methods, tools or approaches.
- Experience analysing performance information, risks or operational challenges, and using this information to recommend or deliver improvements.
- Experience working with a range of stakeholders and presenting project updates, reports or findings to support decision-making.
Bring your experience to a role in CQC that really makes a difference. Apply today to join a workplace where your impact is felt every day.
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Note For Internal Candidates
This is a secondment/fixed term opportunity. Please read the recruitment and selection policy section on secondments. You must discuss your application with your line manager before applying.
Some roles may also be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.
Next steps
If you apply, you’ll need to create a profile and complete an online application form. Your application will be completely anonymous. Please see our information for applicants for more details on the process. We contact every applicant to let them know the outcome of their application, so you will hear from us whether or not you are shortlisted.
You can read the full details of the role in the Job Description
If you’d like an informal chat about the role contact –Tim Byrom, Operations Manager Multiagency (Safehouses) at Tim.Byrom@cqc.org.uk.
For general enquiries, please email recruitment@cqc.org.uk.
The Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including:
- 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, such as gym discounts and meditation.
- NHS pension scheme, with around 14% employer contribution.
- Discount schemes (including eligibility for a Blue Light card, at a cost of £4.99 and valid for 2 years), reward vouchers, car leasing and more!
Please see our benefits page for the full list.
Equity for all
We know job descriptions can feel intimidating. Research shows they can cause some people to doubt whether they’re 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.
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We promote a workplace where fairness, respect and inclusion are a priority. Diverse teams make our work better, help us deliver our mission and make our culture stronger. See our ED&I page for more about this.
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- Sexual orientation
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- Ethnicity
- Disability
Values and vision
We are guided by our core 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.
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