[Hiring] Registration Inspector @Care Quality Commission

Role Description

As a Registration Inspector, you’ll help make sure only providers who meet the required standards can deliver health and social care services, helping to keep people safe and well cared for.

You’ll play an important role in assessing whether organisations and individuals are ready to provide regulated health and social care services. Your work will directly support safe, high-quality care for people across the region.

In this role, you’ll:

• Assess registration applications: Review applications from providers and managers, analyse evidence, and make recommendations on registration decisions, variations, and related regulatory actions.
• Manage information and records: Maintain accurate records, update systems, and ensure clear audit trails that support decisions and meet CQC requirements.
• Work with partners and colleagues: Collaborate with inspection teams, legal advisers, specialists, and external stakeholders to share information, identify risks, and support informed decision-making.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a health and/or social care setting where you have used professional judgement to make decisions that affect service quality, safety, or compliance.
• Experience analysing information from different sources, assessing evidence, and using this to make well-reasoned decisions in a risk-based environment.
• Experience managing a busy workload, meeting deadlines or performance targets, and working with a range of stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes.
• Experience of working with autistic people and people with a learning disability.

Requirements

• To progress your application, you’ll need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Without valid right to work you won’t be eligible for the role.
• We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
• Some roles may also be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

Benefits

• 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!