Principal Quality Improvement Consultant
Delphi Care Solutions Ltd
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Job summary
Delphi Care Solutions is seeking a Principal Quality Improvement Consultant to help health and social care providers achieve and maintain regulatory compliance across the UK. You will inspect, advise, and lead improvement initiatives that elevate service quality.
In this national role, you will work with owners, directors and leaders, travel extensively, and deliver practical, sustainable improvements that enhance governance and patient and client care outcomes.
Qualifications
- Current or previous experience as a CQC Inspector (or equivalent regulatory role).
- Significant experience in adult social care regulation, compliance, quality assurance, or inspection.
- Proven ability to produce detailed inspection reports and improvement plans.
Responsibilities
- Lead comprehensive mock CQC inspections and assurance reviews.
- Assess services against CQC framework, regulations, legislation and best practice.
- Evaluate governance, leadership, quality assurance, safeguarding, and operational effectiveness; produce detailed reports and executive summaries.
Skills
Job description
Nationwide Travel Required (Including Occasional Overnight Stays)
From £50,000 per annum + Expenses
As a CQC Inspector, you've seen what outstanding care looks like. You've also seen the challenges providers face when compliance slips, governance weakens, or quality standards begin to deteriorate.
At Delphi Care Solutions, we're looking for experienced current or former CQC Inspectors who want to use their expertise differently. Instead of identifying issues and moving on, you'll work directly with providers to implement solutions, drive meaningful improvements, and help organisations achieve lasting success.
This is an opportunity to become a trusted advisor to care providers across the UK, influencing real change and helping services deliver safer, higher-quality care for the people they support.
Whether supporting a service preparing for inspection, assisting a provider through recovery, or strengthening governance and leadership, your work will have a direct and measurable impact.
Delphi Care Solutions is one of the UK's leading health and social care consultancies. We support providers across adult social care, supported living, domiciliary care, specialist services, and healthcare settings.
Our mission is simple: helping providers achieve excellence.
As part of our growing national Task Force Team, you'll work alongside experienced quality professionals, operational leaders, and sector specialists who are passionate about raising standards throughout health and social care.
Move beyond regulation and become part of the solution by helping providers improve quality, strengthen governance, and achieve sustainable compliance.
No two days are the same. You'll work with a wide range of providers across the UK, each bringing unique opportunities and challenges.
You’ll work closely with owners, directors, boards, registered managers, commissioners, and senior leaders, providing specialist advice that shapes services for the better.
Join a growing consultancy with opportunities to expand your expertise, develop your professional profile, and progress your career.
See first‑hand how your guidance improves services, strengthens leadership teams, and positively impacts the lives of people receiving care.
As a Principal Quality Improvement Consultant, you will provide expert inspection, assurance, compliance, governance, and quality improvement support to health and social care providers throughout the UK.
You will assess services, identify areas of risk, develop improvement strategies, support leadership teams, and help organisations achieve and maintain regulatory compliance.
This is a highly visible role that combines inspection expertise, consultancy, coaching, and quality improvement.
- Lead comprehensive mock CQC inspections and assurance reviews
- Assess services against CQC's assessment framework, regulations, legislation, and best practice
- Evaluate governance, leadership, quality assurance, safeguarding, and operational effectiveness
- Identify areas of concern and opportunities for improvementProduce detailed inspection reports, compliance assessments, and executive summaries
- Provide practical recommendations that support sustainable improvement
- Support providers through improvement journeys, recovery programmes, and compliance challenges
- Develop and oversee action plans designed to address regulatory concerns
- Assist services preparing for inspections and assessment activity
- Support providers facing enforcement activity, compliance notices, or regulatory scrutiny
- Monitor progress and evidence outcomes against agreed quality objectives
- Advise senior leaders, directors, owners, and management teams on regulatory and operational matters
- Review governance systems and quality assurance frameworks
- Support the development of effective leadership and compliance cultures
- Challenge constructively and influence decision-making at senior levels
- Promote continuous improvement and excellence across services
- Deliver workshops, training, webinars, and educational sessions
- Represent Delphi Care Solutions at conferences, forums, and sector events
- Share emerging regulatory developments and best practice guidance
- Contribute to the ongoing development of Delphi's quality improvement programmes
- Current or previous experience as a CQC Inspector
- Significant experience within adult social care regulation, compliance, quality assurance, or inspection
- Experience undertaking regulatory assessments and inspections
- Proven ability to produce detailed inspection reports and improvement plans
- Experience presenting findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders
Exceptional knowledge of:
- CQC Regulations and Assessment Frameworks
- Care Act 2014
- Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
- Safeguarding Adults
- Health & Safety Legislation
- Governance and Quality Assurance
- Information Governance and GDPR
- Excellent analytical and investigative skills
- Strong communication and report-writing abilities
- Ability to influence and engage senior leaders
- Strong organisational and project management skills
- Commercial awareness and consultancy mindset
- Ability to balance support, challenge, and accountability
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Willingness to travel extensively throughout the UK
- Ability to undertake overnight stays as required
- Experience supporting providers through enforcement, recovery, or turnaround programmes
- Registered Manager, Regional Manager, Operations Director, or Quality Director experience
- Knowledge of quality improvement methodologies
- Consultancy experience within health or social care
- Experience working directly with executive teams, boards, or care business owners
You are a credible and respected professional who understands both the regulatory landscape and the realities of service delivery.
You know how to identify risks, challenge poor practice, and support improvement.
Most importantly, you are passionate about helping providers achieve positive, lasting change and improving outcomes for people who rely on care services every day.
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