Chief Quality Officer

Chief Quality Officer

This role offers the opportunity to bring your leadership skills to a genuinely values led, national, social care provider making a positive impact on the lives of the people we support. As our new Chief Quality Officer you can help deliver high quality services to help more people enjoy greater independence and a good life.

Choice Support is a charitable community benefit society providing social care and housing to adults with learning disabilities, autistic people and people with mental health needs. We support over 2,500 people in England, from Yorkshire to the south coast, employ 2600 people and have an income of c£80M. Our purpose is to create opportunities for happiness for the people that we support.

Your role

We want you to provide values-driven leadership to Choice Support to ensure that the people we support receive the highest standard of care and support.

As Chief Quality Officer, you will be the executive lead responsible for all aspects of quality and safeguarding, co-production, positive behavioural support, person centred active support and marketing. You will work to deliver the highest quality of care and compliance with CQC regulations, and that the people we support are able to achieve the outcomes that they desire.

You will lead 4 teams and also be a member of the senior leadership team supporting the Board and the Chief Executive to devise and deliver Choice Supports 5-year strategy and annual business plan objectives.

Within the organisation you will be a role model, demonstrating Choice Support's values and promoting co-production in decision making. You will also work to raise Choice Support's profile externally so that we are recognised as a leader in the sector.

Your profile

We are looking for a values driven leader, committed to providing excellent support to enable people to live independent and fulfilled lives. You will bring:

experience working at Director or Executive Director level providing leadership and management at senior level in Adult Social Care.

a good understanding of CQC regulations and health and social care legislation, including the Care Act, CQC Regulations and the Single Assessment Framework.

knowledge and experience of co-production frameworks across all levels of an organisation.

experience of designing and implementing Quality Assurance and safeguarding systems, related strategies and plans.

a genuine commitment to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities, autistic people and people with mental health needs.

experience of implementing new models of support that best meet the needs of people with learning disabilities, autistic people or those with mental health needs.

The role is home based, or you can work in any of our offices. You must be able to regularly and easily travel to locations in London and the Southeast with occasional travel nationally as part of the role.

For more information or for an informal discussion about this post please email to arrange a time to speak to Andrew Beland, Chief Executive.

For more information Choice Support please visit our website:

The deadline for the receipt of CVs/applications is 5pm on Monday 3 November 2025.

Interviews will take place on Friday 21 November 2025, in person, at our central London office. There will also be Teams meetings with a panel of people that we support, as part of the selection process.

We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and taking action to address inequality. We particularly welcome applications from anyone who is from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background, anyone who considers themselves to have a disability and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Choice Support is Disability Confident, which is a scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment, we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview.