Equity and Rights Manager

Grade A: £52,737 (National Framework) or £58,139 (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. For part time roles - please note this will be pro rata.

Contracted Hours: Full-time 37 hours per week or Part-time, at least 29.5 hours per week. Job-share will be considered. Talk to us about compressed hours.

Contract Type: Permanent opportunity

Location: Home-based, flexible location. Office- based, flexible location. Hybrid working (working a part of the week from home - 2 days).

Closing Date: Tuesday 26th November 2024 at 11.59pm

Potential Interview Date: (via Teams) w/c 9th December

This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

For an informal discussion or further information about this role please contact Hiring Manager - Lucy Wilkinson, Deputy Director of Equity and Rights; [email protected] and for general enquiries contact [email protected]

Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on.

Why this could be a great role for you....

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Equity and Rights, this exciting role will develop and implement the equality, health inequalities, and human rights agenda within CQC towards continuous improvement and best practice. You will utilise your vast experience in undertaking equality and human rights work in a strategic and policy development context, focussed on improving equity and human rights in service delivery in complex organisations. You will also utilise your experience in ensuring public sector organisations meet their statutory duties relating to equality and human rights. Examples of current work in the Equity and Rights team include developing CQC's anti-racist strategy and ensuring our future regulatory model meets our strategic ambitions to tackle inequalities through supporting thorough Equality and Human Rights Impact Analyses.

What you will bring...

Experience of managing in an equality, health inequalities or human rights function.

Expert understanding of equality and human rights duties of a public sector organisation, coupled with understanding of equality, health inequalities and human rights issues in health and/ or social care

A strong commitment to developing anti-discriminatory and rights-promoting practice through a range of methods, including leading projects, policy analysis, learning and development interventions and writing guidance

Ability to take a structured approach to problem solving in a policy context and developing policy proposals

Highly developed verbal and written communication skills and strong listening skills, which enable you to build strong relationships across teams within the organisation, with senior colleagues including at Executive and Board level and with external stakeholders.

Experience of managing people and projects in a complex environment

What we can offer you...

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through our benefits scheme

- 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 earn yourself a voucher or two!

- Equipment for homeworking

We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.

We want to support you to succeed and be your very best with opportunities for training and development; along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.

Please click the link below to access the Job Description: -

Please note some roles may be subject to a satisfactory DBS check

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Individual adjustments...

We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: [email protected]

CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. 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.

For this role, we are particularly encouraging people from ethnically diverse communities and people with a disability to apply, who are currently under-represented at this level in the organisation.

Our Values

Excellence - Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation

Caring - Treating everyone with dignity and respect

Integrity - Demonstrating our passion for 'doing the right thing'

Teamwork - Enabling us to be the best we can