Quality Assurance Lead – ASC

Quality Assurance Lead
6-month interim contract – immediate start
£300 per day (inside IR35, via umbrella)
Hybrid working, South West England
 
CVs are being reviewed immediately with interviews taking place week commencing 6th July.
 
Are you a driven Quality Assurance Lead ready to step into a high-impact interim role where your expertise will directly shape service quality and inspection readiness? Reporting into a senior operational leader, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening assurance, compliance and continuous improvement across Adult Social Care services. This is your opportunity to embed robust governance, influence leadership teams and ensure services consistently meet regulatory expectations—just in time for critical reporting in the autumn.
 
As Quality Assurance Lead, you will be at the heart of elevating standards, ensuring services are safe, effective and person-centred while aligning with regulatory frameworks and best practice. If you thrive in a fast-paced, improvement-focused environment—this is your moment.
 
Your role as Quality Assurance Lead:

• Lead quality assurance audits & service reviews, producing clear, actionable insight
  • Drive continuous improvement & governance systems, embedding consistent assurance processes
  • Oversee inspection readiness & CQC compliance, including PIR quality assurance
  • Monitor quality data, risks & action plans, ensuring timely delivery of improvements
  • Provide expert advice & challenge, supporting leaders to raise standards and outcomes

You will be a visible and credible Quality Assurance Lead, promoting a culture of transparency, accountability and learning—ensuring feedback from people and families drives meaningful improvements.
 
Your experience as Quality Assurance Lead:

• Strong Adult Social Care sector expertise, specifically in quality, compliance and assurance
  • Proven track record of inspection readiness & regulatory engagement (CQC)
  • Experience delivering audit frameworks, governance and improvement planning
  • Ability to analyse complex data & identify risks, translating into improvement actions
  • Confident in influencing and challenging senior stakeholders to drive change

In this Quality Assurance Lead role, your impact will be immediate—supporting leadership to respond to inspections, strengthen compliance and evidence quality improvements at committee level.
 
If you’re interested in discussing this opportunity in more detail or know someone who this may be of interest to, please contact Sarah Williams or Terry Lee on 0117 3137110 or apply today.
 
We offer a senior referral scheme upon successful placement of your recommendation so please do get in contact.
 
Our clients are passionate about creating and evolving a diverse workforce and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant. Recruiting decisions are based on your experience and skills. Any reasonable adjustments in the workplace will be fully supported during the application and hiring process.

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