Quality Assurance Nurse / Practitioner

Octopus Capital Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension and share incentive plan

Hybrid working – 3 days in office, 2/3

Wellness hub Anchor with Headspace and

Up to 6 months paid parental leave

Life insurance and critical illness

Job summary

Octopus Capital Ltd seeks a Quality Assurance professional to visit care homes and retirement villages across the UK, translating findings into actionable insight that supports clinical, operational and quality standards within the portfolio. This hybrid role requires independence and reports to the Clinical Assurance Director, with focus on regulatory scrutiny and risk management.

You will track regulator outcomes, produce clear reports, and share knowledge at events to foster best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience as a social care nurse or practitioner.
• Ability to carry out site visits independently and report back on findings.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting findings to stakeholders.
• Ability to build and manage working relationships.
• Proficiency with technology, digital applications and media platforms.
• Full UK driving licence with willingness to travel nationally, including overnight stays.
• Desirable: experience at clinical lead/deputy manager level.
• Desirable: experience delivering sessions/workshops at educational events.
• Desirable: experience advising on regulatory or healthcare sector matters.

Responsibilities

• Visit facilities across the UK and write detailed visit reports.
• Provide operational insight from visits on regulatory compliance and service quality.
• Produce clear written reports for the Quality Assurance team.
• Track regulator inspection outcomes (e.g., CQC) for fund operators.
• Review regulatory reports and feed back to relevant teams.
• Support educational days and networking events; attend sector conferences.

Job description

The role

You’ll visit our care homes and retirement villages, see for yourself how they’re run, and turn what you find into clear insight that helps keep clinical, operational and quality standards high across the portfolio. If you’re an experienced social care nurse or practitioner looking for a new challenge, this role builds on what you know and helps you develop specialist skills in risk management, quality assurance and portfolio oversight within a health and social care investment fund.

This role can be based from anywhere in the UK as it's a work from home setup. However, you will need to travel to our London office on a monthly basis.

The team

You’ll join the Quality Assurance team, a small, established function supporting an extensive healthcare investment fund. As our investment in care grows, so does the team’s role in overseeing quality, risk and operational standards. You’ll report to the Clinical Assurance Director and work with colleagues across Octopus Capital, who’ll turn to you for healthcare and regulatory expertise.

What you’ll do

Site visits and oversight

• Visit our facilities across the UK and write detailed visit reports
• Give operational insight from each visit, covering regulatory compliance and service quality
• Produce clear written reports for the Quality Assurance team

Regulatory insight

• Track CQC reports, or equivalent regulator inspection outcomes, for operators in the fund
• Review and analyse regulatory reports, and feed back to the relevant teams

Sharing knowledge

• Support our educational days and networking events
• Attend sector conferences to keep up with best practice

Qualifications

Essential

• Experience as a social care nurse or practitioner
• Confidence carrying out site visits on your own and reporting back on what you find
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and comfort presenting findings to internal and external stakeholders
• Skill in building and managing working relationships
• Ease with technology, digital applications and media platforms
• A full UK driving licence, and willingness to travel nationally, including overnight stays

Desirable

• Experience at clinical lead, deputy manager level or equivalent
• Experience delivering sessions or workshops at educational and networking events
• Experience advising colleagues on regulatory or healthcare sector matters

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.