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Make quality count. Help shape outstanding support across Sense.
At Sense, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live fulfilling, independent lives. As our Quality Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the people we support receive safe, high-quality, person-centred services that consistently exceed regulatory standards.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced leader from health or social care who is passionate about driving continuous improvement, influencing best practice, and supporting services to deliver exceptional outcomes.
Working as part of our dedicated Quality Assurance Team, you will act as a trusted partner to operational colleagues—providing support, challenge, and expert guidance that helps services continually improve while remaining inspection-ready.
Please note that this role involves hybrid working with extensive travel across the UK, including Northern Ireland and Wales.
What you will be doing
You will work across a portfolio of services, helping to strengthen quality, compliance, and practice by:
- Leading quality audits, inspections, and service reviews across regulated services.
- Supporting services to prepare for and achieve successful CQC, CIW, RQIA, and Ofsted inspections.
- Monitoring compliance and ensuring improvement actions are completed and embedded.
- Reviewing incidents, investigations, and safeguarding concerns to identify root causes and share learning.
- Analysing quality data, trends, and risks to drive informed improvements.
- Providing coaching, mentoring, and practical support to managers and operational teams.
- Designing and delivering engaging training to build capability and confidence.
- Promoting Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and person-centred approaches across services.
- Reviewing policies, contributing to service improvement programmes, and promoting best practice throughout the organisation.
- Building strong relationships with operational leaders while constructively challenging practice where required.
This is a highly visible role where you will influence quality across multiple services and make a genuine difference to the lives of the people we support.
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About you
We are looking for someone who combines operational credibility with a passion for continuous improvement.
You will bring:
- Experience in quality assurance, audit, or compliance within a regulated environment.
- Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks (e.g. CQC, RQIA, CIW, Ofsted).
- A track record of driving improvement in social care or similar settings.
- Experience designing and delivering training or coaching programmes.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
- A genuine commitment to inclusion, diversity, and person-centred care.
As this is a national role, you will also need:
- A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business travel.
- The ability to travel extensively across the UK, including occasional overnight stays.
- Eligibility to undertake an Enhanced DBS check for working with adults and children.
- A commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and to living the values of Sense.
Why Sense?
At Sense, quality isn't simply about compliance—it's about ensuring every person we support has the opportunity to live the life they choose.
Joining our Quality Assurance Team means you will:
- Influence quality across services nationwide.
- Help shape a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Work alongside passionate colleagues who genuinely care about making a difference.
- Have opportunities for ongoing professional development and career progression.
- Be part of an organisation where your expertise creates lasting impact.
Our values
Our values shape the way we behave and work alongside disabled people with complex needs to break down barriers.
- We're creating change
- We're always learning
- We're better together
To apply
Please use the link below to complete your application. Managers will use your application to shortlist candidates for interview; in relation to the Personal Specification. Therefore, it is very important you complete this section thoroughly. We would recommend that you read the job description and person specification before applying.
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Please note to avoid disappointment, we advise you to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time.
No agency submissions please: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.
If you require any further assistance, please contact the Recruitment Team on 0121 415 6735 or recruitment@sense.org.uk.
Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment, where appropriate, are subject to a DBS check; level dependent on the nature of the role.
Sense is here to break down barriers alongside disabled people with complex needs. That's why we're committed to increasing the number of disabled people working across our organisation and creating an environment where everyone can thrive.
We actively encourage disabled people to apply for our vacancies and believe that a diverse range of perspectives, experiences, and talents makes us stronger.
We know there's always more we can do to become a truly inclusive employer, and we're working together to achieve that. Join us and help create the change thousands of disabled people with complex needs and families told us they want to see: a world without limits.
If you need us to adjust our recruitment process to help you access our vacancies, then please get in touch with a member of the talent acquisition team. We are a Disability Confident Leader and commit to interviewing disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for a role. More information on this can be found here Our commitment as an employer | Sense Careers.
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