Equity and Rights Manager

Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?, Reporting to the Deputy Director of Equity and Rights, this exciting role will develop and implement the equality, health inequalities, and human rights agenda within CQC towards continuous improvement and best practice. You will utilise your vast experience in undertaking equality and human rights work in a strategic and policy development context, focussed on improving equity and human rights in service delivery in complex organisations. You will also utilise your experience in ensuring public sector organisations meet their statutory duties relating to equality and human rights. Examples of current work in the Equity and Rights team include developing CQC’s anti-racist strategy and ensuring our future regulatory model meets our strategic ambitions to tackle inequalities through supporting thorough Equality and Human Rights Impact Analyses.

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on., Experience of managing in an equality, health inequalities or human rights function.
Expert understanding of equality and human rights duties of a public sector organisation, coupled with understanding of equality, health inequalities and human rights issues in health and/ or social care
A strong commitment to developing anti-discriminatory and rights-promoting practice through a range of methods, including leading projects, policy analysis, learning and development interventions and writing guidance
Ability to take a structured approach to problem solving in a policy context and developing policy proposals
Highly developed verbal and written communication skills and strong listening skills, which enable you to build strong relationships across teams within the organisation, with senior colleagues including at Executive and Board level and with external stakeholders.
Experience of managing people and projects in a complex environment

What we can offer you...
Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through our benefits scheme
- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
- Discounted gym vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Internal reward scheme where you could earn yourself a voucher or two!
- Equipment for homeworking
We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.
We want to support you to succeed and be your very best with opportunities for training and development; along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.