Quality Assurance Nurse

Company Description

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Job Description

Team Overview

The Quality Assurance team is a small, established function supporting an extensive healthcare investment fund. As the company’s investment in care continues to grow, we are offering an exciting opportunity to join the team and contribute to the oversight of quality, risk and operational standards across the portfolio.

The team provides continual oversight of a portfolio of care homes and retirement villages, helping to ensure that operational, clinical and quality standards are maintained.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced social care nurse or practitioner who is seeking a new challenge. The role combines operational knowledge with the opportunity to develop specialist skills in risk management, quality assurance and portfolio oversight within a health and social care investment fund.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct onsite visits and complete detailed visit reports.
• Be prepared for UK wide travel to our facilities

• Track CQC reports, or equivalent regulator inspection outcomes, for operators within the fund.

• Review and analyses regulatory reports, providing feedback to the relevant team.

• Produce clear written reports for the Quality Assurance team.

• Support educational days and networking events.

• Attend sector-specific conferences to maintain current knowledge and awareness of best practice.

• Provide operational oversight and insight from site visits, including regulatory compliance and service quality.

Qualifications

Ideally, you’ll have:

Confident and competent in establishing and managing client relationships.

Able to carry out autonomous site visits and provide operational monitoring updates.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Able to contribute to and deliver sessions or workshops at educational and networking events, including best practice initiatives and sector updates.

Provide regulatory or healthcare sector advice to the wider Octopus Capital team when required.

Experience working at clinical lead, deputy manager level or equivalent is desirable.

Comfortable presenting information and findings to internal and external stakeholders.

Comfortable using technology, digital applications and media platforms.

Full UK driving license. Willing to travel nationally and, where required, overnight stays.

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. What’s the worst that can happen?

This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So, if you are looking for a challenge in a fast paced and dynamic business, we can deliver on that.

Additional Information

What we offer

A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan

• Untracked holiday
• Hybrid working – three days in the office, two days from home
• Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP, employee assistance program & more
• Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender
• Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
• Private medical insurance for you and your family
• Electric vehicle leasing
• The option to work overseas up to a month per year

Our Values

At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.

We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.