Regulatory Compliance Assurance Lead

**About The Role**:
**Regulatory Compliance Assurance Lead**

**Location**: Hybrid (home / Swinderby head office (near Lincoln / regular site visits across the UK)
**Salary**: £65,000 - £70,000 (depending on experience) + car allowance

**About Us**:
At Kisimul, we are dedicated to empowering the individuals we support, helping them expand their life skills, abilities, and experiences. Our therapeutic community and meaningful life delivery model are built around holistic care and lifelong learning, encouraging personal growth in a nurturing and supportive environment. If you're passionate about making a positive impact on both people and business, you’ll thrive here.

We are very proud of our Meaningful Life model. It entails our colleagues working closely with the people we support and their families, to agree and describe what a meaningful life and fulfilling future could look like for them.

Every young person has an individualised plan with bespoke goals that span home and school life to encourage maintenance and generalisation of skills.

A therapeutically informed approach is Kisimul’s golden thread to enabling meaningful lives for individuals accessing our services. It is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between therapeutic, education, and residential professionals to support and enhance the physical, mental, emotional, and social wellbeing of the individuals we support.

The Role:
The Regulatory Compliance Assurance Lead will lead the internal regulatory inspection programme that will seek to gain assurance that services are meeting/exceeding regulatory compliance by benchmarking them against the published regulatory frameworks. The post holder will report directly to the Director of Operations and Practice and be the ‘eyes and ears’ of the organisation, therefore providing timely and accurate accounts of regulatory compliance, to enable swift and effective action from the operational teams.

Key Responsibilities:

- Ensuring support and education facilitates meaningful lives, and is safe, effective and compliant with all regulatory requirements and agreed best practice
- Lead on the monitoring of key performance indicators (via a Quality Risk Profile for each service) that impact on regulatory compliance and utilise these to enable the post holder and key colleagues to identify risk and inform the inspection regime and frequencies.
- Lead and deliver an expert inspection programme that is carried out at all Kisimul services, at an agreed frequency, based on collaborative risk assessment.
- Work with operational service leaders, the quality team and other enabling teams, and operators to provide close support and coaching that facilitates enhanced capability in all matters that impact regulatory compliance, that ensures sustainable solutions
- Maintain up to date and in depth knowledge of the relevant regulatory frameworks and ensure that inspection methods and approaches are consistently in line with that of our regulators.

**About You**:
About You:
We are looking for an individual who has:

- Significant experience in; developing and leading frameworks and processes for gaining assurance in regulatory assurance, social care service leadership, safeguarding and continuous quality improvement.
- Extensive sector knowledge and a full understanding of the regulatory and best practice frameworks, and the underpinning frameworks, practice and assurance mechanisms that need to be in place to ensure delivery of high quality, and services that are compliant with, and exceed, regulatory requirements
- Comprehensive knowledge of safeguarding best practice and process, and the associated legislation, and an understanding of how this is applied in practice
- Significant and demonstratable expertise in working with, and improving, services for children and adults with very complex and safeguarding needs and autism/learning disability
- Highly credible and able to quickly build effective working relationships, engaging and influencing at all stakeholder levels

Why Join Us?
- **Supportive Environment**: We offer a positive and inclusive work culture where every member of the team is valued.
- **Career Development**: Ongoing opportunities for training and professional development to help you grow in your career.
- **Competitive Benefits**: A comprehensive benefits package including [insert relevant benefits here].
- **Making a Difference**: You'll be part of a passionate team working towards transforming lives and ensuring that individuals receive the best possible care.