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Senior Specialist – Mental Health (Secure / Forensic Services)

Salary: £52,737 per annum (National Framework) or £58,139 per annum (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Home Based
Closing date: Tuesday 5th November 2024 at 11.59pm

About Us

We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England.

Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well as well as encouraging improvements and taking action over poorer care, where necessary.

One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network.

We’re now looking for a Senior Specialist to join our team working across our mental health services on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
- Discounted gym vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
- Equipment for homeworking

Why this could be a great role for you…

This is an exciting opportunity for a knowledgeable individual with expertise in mental health services and delivery to join our influential organisation.

You will have the chance to shape national approaches to forensic mental health, playing a pivotal role in providing advice and support and helping us ensure that mental health services deliver high-quality, safe care across the UK.

So, if you’re ready to use your expertise to drive improvements in care quality, we’d love to hear from you.

What you will bring…

To be considered as our Senior Specialist, you will need:

- Excellent knowledge of mental health (ideally secure / forensic services)
- Experience of delivering through others
- Experience relevant to your specialism of stakeholder engagement
- Experience of implementing policy to manage operational risk
- An understanding of how to translate methodologies into reality
- Expertise in your specialism
- The ability to advise and coach others to generate a better understanding of regulations and appropriate interventions

What you’ll be doing…

As a Senior Specialist, you will play a key role in providing expert mental health sector advice and supporting multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) across our Network.

Influencing our national approach to forensic mental health services, you will support MDTs by assisting with decision-making on high-risk issues and providing senior specialist input on regulatory risks. You will also ensure that data, insights and sector learning inform operational delivery.

Supporting complex and high-risk activities, you will work with leadership to ensure our strategy and regulatory priorities align with sector developments and drive improvements in quality and safety.

Additionally, you will:

- Enhance sector-based leadership and safeguard practices
- Contribute to policy development and training delivery
- Collaborate with line managers and the Operations Network to ensure person-centred approaches
- Manage stakeholder relationships and handle public, POCU and MP concerns

Next steps…

If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team or include a note in your application.

We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

So, if you’d like to join us as a Senior Specialist, please apply via the button shown.

Other organisations may call this role Senior Mental Health Advisor, Forensic Mental Health Specialist, Regulatory Risk Specialist, Senior Mental Health Consultant, Mental Health Regulatory Specialist, Senior Policy and Risk Advisor, or Senior Regulatory Consultant