Chief Quality, Safeguarding & Trust Officer

ETIO; England; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Flexible working

Private Medical Insurance

Healthcare Cash Plan

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Work from Anywhere globally

Paid volunteer day

Cycle to Work & Electric Car Scheme

3% employer pension contribution

Job summary

ETIO is seeking an Executive Director of Quality, Safeguarding & Trust to provide executive leadership and independent oversight across programme quality, safeguarding, assurance and risk. The post holder will establish frameworks, controls and assurance mechanisms to ensure safe, high-quality delivery at scale.

They will build and lead a multidisciplinary function, provide objective challenge, and escalate risks early while promoting continuous improvement, accountability and public confidence

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience within quality, safeguarding, assurance or risk functions.
• Experience in complex, highly accountable environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong safeguarding principles, policy and practice.
• Proven ability designing and implementing QA and compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for quality, safeguarding, assurance and trust across the programme.
• Establish and lead a multidisciplinary quality, safeguarding and assurance function.
• Develop and implement programme-wide quality frameworks, standards and controls.
• Establish a consistent approach to quality assurance across multiple services, delivery partners and operational routes.
• Lead safeguarding strategy, governance, policy development and oversight.
• Design and implement risk-based assurance, audit and compliance frameworks.
• Monitor delivery quality and identify areas requiring intervention, improvement or additional support.
• Establish robust risk management, incident management and escalation processes.

Skills

Senior leadership

Quality governance

Safeguarding expertise

Risk management

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Independent assurance

Investigations handling

Job description

ETIO is seeking an Executive Director of Quality, Safeguarding & Trust to provide executive leadership and independent oversight across programme quality, safeguarding, assurance and risk. The post holder will establish frameworks, controls and assurance mechanisms to ensure safe, high-quality delivery at scale.

They will build and lead a multidisciplinary function, provide objective challenge, and escalate risks early while promoting continuous improvement, accountability and public confidence