Chair of Independent Care (Education) and Treatment Programme

Requirements of the role

About Us

The CQC, or Care Quality Commission, is England’s independent regulator for health and adult social care, ensuring services like hospitals, care homes, GPs, and dentists provide safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care, by registering, monitoring, inspecting, and rating providers, and taking action to improve standards for the public.

Through the dedication of our expert teams, we monitor against key questions like whether care is safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well-led, giving the public assurance and driving improvement.
One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network.

We are now looking for people to Chair our Independent Care Education and Treatment reviews of people with a learning disability and autistic people in long-term segregation in hospital. These roles are to  join us on a full-time basis for a fixed-term/secondment until 31st March 2028.

What you’ll be doing…

As an independent Chair of Care Education and treatment reviews, you will lead an independent team to review the full care and treatment of people with a learning disability and autistic people in long-term segregation in hospital.

Leading this small team, you will co-ordinate onsite activities. You will speak with people using services, families, carers, staff and other stakeholders to ensure each person’s lived experience is heard and respected.

You will utilise your knowledge to challenge care that does not meet the requirements of the Mental Health Act Code of Practice and highlight risks of human rights breaches. As part of the role, you will make clear, time-bound recommendations that reduce restrictions and support safe, meaningful progress towards leaving long term segregation and working towards discharge. You will be responsible for following up with services to ensure that progress is being made against the recommendations and highlighting any regulatory concerns.

Additionally, you will:

– Lead focused reviews of an individual’s full care and treatment.
– Engage with commissioners, clinicians and stakeholders to support implementation of recommendations
– Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns to inspection colleagues
– Support delivery of the IC(E)TR programme before, during and after the reviews.
– Influence and inform  the wider inspection programme.

Other organisations may call this role Independent Care Review Chair, Independent Care Review Lead, Care Review Panel Chair, Clinical Review Chair, Mental Health Review Chair, Independent Care Governance Lead, Chair of Care and Treatment Reviews, or Care Quality Review Lead.

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