Senior Quality Improvement Partner in London)

Location: Home based with national travel.

Salary: £50,000

Hours Per Week: 35

Closing Date: 6th February 2026

Join Shaftesbury - Where Every Role Adds Up to a Life Well Lived. We’re now looking for a Senior Quality Improvement Partner to join our friendly and dedicated Team. If you’re organised, proactive, and passionate about people, this is your chance to help shape a workforce that truly cares.

Please note this role does not qualify for visa sponsorship. This role is home based with national travel.

At Shaftesbury, we’re more than a disability charity - we’re a community of passionate professionals committed to enabling children, young people, and adults to live full, flourishing lives. Guided by our core values - Open, Enabling, Inclusive, and Courageous - we deliver personalised care and support that makes a real difference.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting the delivery and objectives of the Shaftesbury business plan and strategy through the quality framework and strategy.
• Ensuring standards within services meet the people we support, organisation and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure we are operating, within services placing authority contract, to ensure delivery of provision, which meets both the standard expected and the requirement of support needed.

What We’re Looking For

• Level 5 diploma or professional qualification in related field.
• Completion of all social care mandatory training or willing to complete.
• Evidence of continued professional development and personal development.
• In depth understanding of the social care sector.
• In depth understanding of quality systems suitable for a care or support organisation.
• In depth understanding of the social model of disability, person centred support and co-production.
• Experience of working within a service audited by CQC, RQIA, CIW and or OFSTED.
• Management experience in the social care sector with direct experience in the management of services for disabled people.

Why Work With Us?

• Recognition & Rewards: Be nominated for a recognition letter or a gift voucher (up to £50) for going above and beyond.
• Training & Development: Access to an excellent training package to support your growth.
• Generous Leave: 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (rising to 28 days after 5 years).
• Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme: Supporting your wellbeing, whenever you need it.

Our Commitment

Shaftesbury is the disability charity that’s committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them. What makes life liveable is never down to just one thing - it’s the sum of many things. From friendship to fun; from companionship to community; from a great chat to a challenge overcome, it all adds up - to Shaftesbury.

Through a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services we promote inclusion and wellbeing for all. Together, we work to see people take part, contribute and be valued. We put the elements in place that all add up to connected lives.

Shaftesbury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS/Access NI check.

Shaftesbury is committed to the Disability Confident Scheme and to equal opportunities therefore we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Shaftesbury, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your application.

Application Link