OR633 – Senior Manager Regulation & Inspection
Care Council for Wales
Cardiff
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 7 £58,918 to £70,450
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 7 March 2025
Job overview
Senior Manager Regulation and Inspection
ID 2159
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Vacancy details
Vacancy title
Senior Manager Regulation and Inspection
Closing date
07/03/2025, 16:00
Advertising basis
Permanent
Actual starting salary
A starting salary between £58,918 and £65,577 may be offered to the successful candidate based on their skills, knowledge, experience and performance at interview. This range is not negotiable
Salary range or pay band
Grade 7 £58,918 to £70,450
Work pattern
Full time (applications are welcome from people who work part time, as part of a job share or who work full time)
Group
Corporate Services and Inspectorates
Directorate
Care Inspectorate Wales
Branch
Local authority
Location (s)
Pan Wales
Purpose of post
Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) is the independent regulator of social care and childcare. CIW registers, inspects and takes action to improve the quality and safety of services for the well-being of the people of Wales. Regulation, performance review and enforcement are key functions in ensuring good outcomes for people through the delivery of safe, high quality services.
The role of Senior Manager is a critical leadership role in CIW in ensuring staff are well managed and supported. Senior managers are responsible for ensuring CIW can drive improvement in the sectors we regulate and inspect and in providing assurance that only reliable, safe services are registered, taking robust action when required.
The post holder may have line management responsibility for Team/Inspection Managers and/or Inspectors and will support the relevant Head of Inspection in ensuring the delivery of consistent, effective, efficient and high-quality services.
The post will be accountable to the relevant Head of Inspection.
Key tasks
- To provide leadership and line management support to one of three regulatory teams. This includes direct line management responsibility for Team/Inspection Managers and Inspectors
- To play an active role in leadership and change management within CIW, and contributing to relevant policy development in Welsh Government.
- Provide oversight of and support the operational work of designated teams in line with legislative requirements and internal guidance.
- Provide oversight of performance and quality assurance ensuring consistency across all aspects of the team’s work.
- Work closely with other senior managers across CIW to ensure staff are supported to develop and maintain appropriate skills, identifying learning and development needs and opportunities.
- Oversight of enforcement processes, including chairing enforcement panels
- Work across teams at a senior level to share information and ensure holistic oversight of care services across Wales.
- Contribute to organisational oversight and decision-making forums/boards and meetings.
- To lead on projects and implementation of new ways of working as required.
- To lead on the provision of advice, support, information and reports to the Head of one of three regulatory teams as required.
- Preparing briefings for Ministers and reports the Senior Management Team in relation to specific cases.
- Develop and maintain working relationships with providers and other key partners including Welsh Government policy colleagues, Social Care Wales, the Police, and other inspectorates to contribute to organisational development and sharing information.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with local authorities, commissioners, and health boards in relation to the quality of commissioned services and safeguarding, ensuring intelligence is shared with the local authority team.
- An understanding of the registration process.
Development opportunities
This post offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic organisation which champions improvements in social care through a citizen focusses approach.
Other vacancy related information
Welsh Language Skills
A high level of Welsh skill is essential for the role but the day to day use of Welsh language will vary depending on the provider you are inspecting. The Welsh Government is a bilingual organisation, and stakeholders and customers can deal with us in their preferred language.
Welsh language skills will be assessed at interview stage with at least 2 questions being spoken through the medium of Welsh.
- A recognised social care/education qualification alongside relevant experience is preferred however, applications will be accepted from candidates who are qualified to degree level or higher (in any subject) with substantial experience in safeguarding and/or improving outcomes for people in a health or social care context. Examples of acceptable social care/education qualifications are (but not limited too):
- a Diploma in Social Work (or Social Care Wales equivalent),
- a nursing or allied health care qualification,
- a teaching or education qualification,
- a degree in Early Years/Childhood Studies
- a Level 5 Diploma in either Leadership for Health and Social Services or Children’s Care, Learning and Development
- This post involves undertaking scrutiny, review and inspection activity across Wales, and will therefore require travel with some periods of staying away from home and, at times, unsocial hours.
- Successful candidates will be matched in merit order to a role based on their skills, experience, and geographical location. Although we will ask you to indicate a preference at interview, there is no guarantee that you will be placed into the role of your choice.
Matching Process
- A reserve list will be held which will allow candidates on the reserve list to be appointed into a job family/comparable role within 12 months of the initial offer should a suitable post matching their skills, experience, and location, become available. Candidates can retain their reserve status if they decline an offer of a comparable role.
Vetting level
Enhanced
Number of posts
1
Contact point for further information regarding the post
Lou Bushell-Bauers ciwhr@gov.wales
About Care Council for Wales
- Care Council for Wales
- South Gate House, Wood Street, Cardiff
- South Glamorgan
- CF10 1EW
- United Kingdom
About Us
The Care Council for Wales was established in October 2001 to promote high standards of conduct and practice among social care workers and high standards in their training.
Our Aim
Our aim is to ensure children and adults who are receiving social care services should be able to rely on a workforce that is properly trained, appropriately qualified and effectively regulated.
The Care Council is a groundbreaking development for the social care sector – it is the first ever regulatory body for the social care profession in Wales. Through the Care Standards Act 2000 it has powers to set standards for people working in the sector in Wales, to register them against those standards for the first time ever, and also to remove them from the register for not adhering to those standards.
Our Responsibilities
The Care Council is responsible for:
• agreeing codes of practice which apply to social care workers and employers across the social care sector;
• setting up a register of social care workers to improve public protection, making sure that registrants found unfit to work in the sector are prevented from working in the sector;
• ascertaining training needs and promoting training across the social care sector;
• regulating social work qualifying and post qualifying training.
Our statement of purpose and values
The duty of the Care Council as set out in the Care Standards Act 2000 is to promote in relation to Wales:
• high standards of conduct and practice among social care workers; and
• high standards in their training.
In pursuit of this, the Care Council will conduct its business based on the following principles and beliefs:
• service users and carers are at the heart of the agenda;
• quality services rely on competent staff;
• regulation and registration, complemented by other investment in the development of the workforce, can raise standards;
• social care is one sector, with one workforce;
• people have different needs, wants and interests and these must be recognised and respected;
• equality of opportunity must be supported and diversity valued;
• the benefits of bilingualism will be actively promoted with the aim of assisting the Welsh Assembly Government to achieve its goal of making Wales a truly bilingual country.
The Care Council and the Welsh Assembly Government
The Care Council for Wales is an Assembly Government Sponsored Body (AGSB) and is accountable to the Assembly and the public for the way it carries out its functions. The Minister for Health and Social Services is responsible for the Care Council and its activities and is answerable to the Assembly for those activities.
Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales is the Sponsor Division which oversees the work of the AGSB, ensuring it maintains propriety, regularity and value for money throughout its work. Click here for further information about CSSIW
The Chief Executive of the Care Council for Wales is accountable through the Chair to the Council and is directly accountable to the Assembly for the success of the organisation. The Council consists of 22 members all appointed by the Assembly. The majority are service users, carers and members of the public with representatives also of employers, trade union, education and training and professional organisations.
For further details about the Council’s constitution click here, and to view Council members click here.
The Care Council and the Social Care Sector
The primary purpose of the Care Council is to secure higher standards of conduct, practice and training across the social care workforce. This is part of a wider agenda to improve the quality of and confidence in social care services in Wales.
The social care profession is one of the most important service areas in Wales and is an essential part of the continuum of care. There is a range of social care services, and they enable some of the most vulnerable people in our society to live as independently and safely as possible. Social care workers deal with some of the most demanding, distressing and intractable circumstances often having to make some of the hardest decisions required of any workers in any sector.
The Care Council recognises that social care staff are the most important asset of the social care sector. They are dedicated workers who work hard to provide good quality support to over 100,000 people at any given time in Wales.
The focus is increasingly on the quality and sustainability of social care services with the workforce challenges set firmly in the centre of this agenda. A contributory factor to improving quality is to have in place explicit standards set out for people working in the sector and also arrangements and resources to support the development of staff. The sustainability of the services will be largely dependant on sufficient numbers of appropriate staff with the relevant skills and competence to undertake the work.
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