Quality Partner

Affinity Trust; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stream – pay access app

Blue light card reimbursement

Simplyhealth health plans

Buy and sell annual leave

Pension and Life Assurance

Job summary

Affinity Trust in Aberdeen is seeking a Quality Partner to lead quality assurance visits, drive improvements, and support safeguarding and regulatory compliance.

You will move between locations across Scotland, coaching teams, leading improvement projects, and ensuring person‑centred support to help people reach their goals. A flexible travel pattern is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in regulated support environments (health, social care, supported living) is essential.
• Audit/inspection experience with outcomes-focused improvements.
• Ability to design workshops and lead multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead Quality Assurance visits and audits to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Coach teams for inspections and contract checks across locations.
• Own divisional Quality, Performance & Risk meetings and translate data into actions.
• Design and deliver workshops that embed best practice across the organisation.
• Run end-to-end improvement projects with clear timelines and outcomes.
• Drive person-centred initiatives to improve everyday practice.
• Support investigations, safeguarding and lessons‑learned activities with training and guidance.
• Create clear process maps and practical training materials.
• Champion co‑production with people supported by Affinity Trust.

Skills

Regulated care knowledge

Auditing

Inspection preparation

Data-driven planning

Project coordination

Facilitation and workshops

Travel flexibility

Education

Experience in regulated support

Job description

Job Introduction

• Job title:Quality Partner
• Location:Based in Aberdeen, with travel across Scotland to support our locations.
• Travel:Flexible travel required to support locations and divisional offices (approx. 50% on site)
• Transport:Full UK driving licence and access to a car/vehicle
• Contract:Full-time
• Salary:£44,290.00

Who we are:

We're Affinity Trust. We’re on a mission to drive outstanding, person‑centred support that changes lives. As we grow, we need bold, energetic improvement champions who turn insight into action and ignite lasting change for the people we support.

Why this role matters

You’ll be the spark that lifts standards, reduces risk and embeds brilliant practice. As a visible, trusted Quality Partner you’ll move between locations, coach operational teams, lead improvement projects and make sure the people we support get safe, creative, person‑centred support to reach their goals.

If you love solving problems, influencing practice and seeing tangible impact, this is the role for you.

What you’ll do (high impact)

• Lead Quality Assurance visits and audits that spot opportunities and spark real improvement.
• Coach and prepare teams for inspections and contract checks. Be the calm, confident lead pre, during and post‑inspection.
• Own divisional Quality, Performance & Risk meetings. Turn data into clear actions and measurable results.
• Design and deliver high‑energy workshops and working groups that embed best practice and spread learning across the organisation.
• Run focused improvement projects end‑to‑end: plan, coordinate weekly actions, unblock barriers and deliver outcomes.
• Drive person‑centred initiatives that change everyday practice for the better.
• Support investigations, safeguarding and lessons‑learned work. Translate findings into training, guidance and system fixes.
• Build clear process maps, practical guidance and engaging training materials.
• Champion co‑production involving people we support in shaping improvements.

Who you are

• Experienced in regulated support (health, social care, supported living or similar) with strong knowledge of regulation, quality frameworks and safeguarding.
• A confident auditor/inspector who gets great results under pressure.
• A natural influencer and facilitator, skilled at running workshops, chairing meetings and winning buy‑in.
• Data‑driven and practical. You turn insight into simple, actionable plans.
• Project‑savvy: you manage multiple stakeholders and drive actions to completion.
• Flexible, mobile and resilient, comfortable with travel.

Why you’ll love it here

• Real impact: see improvements translate into better lives every day.
• Shape national practice: your ideas will influence organisational policy and day‑to‑day delivery.
• A supportive culture that invests in your development.
• Meaningful, values‑led work.

The benefits you'll receive:

You will have access to a range of benefits that you can mix and match to suit you, such as:

• Stream– an app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it, access to coaching, vouchers, discounts, cashback and more.
• Blue light card– we will reimburse your Blue Light Card membership which provides discounts in your favourite shops and restaurants.
• Simplyhealth- Fully funded health cash plans giving you access to a 24‑hour GP, money back on prescriptions, dental treatment, opticians and access to many more health benefits.
• Buy and sell annual leave– transfer windows open twice a year.
• Pension and Life Assurance -you’ll be enrolled into our Scottish Widows pension scheme and our Life Assurance scheme

If you are offered a role with us, you will need to complete a PVG check. We will submit your application and pay for your check.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if sufficient applications are received.

We’re committed to being Disability Confident and we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

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