Principal Engineer

Grade A - £XX,XXX (National Framework) or £XX,XXX (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25). There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £529 per annum for those working from home.

Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week or Part time XX hours per week.

Contract Type: Permanent, Fixed Term, Secondment.

Closing date: XXth Month Year at 11.59pm.

This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England? 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.

What we can offer you:

• Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays).
• A cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day.
• Membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary.
• Access to discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus an internal reward scheme.
• All of our Homeworkers are kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.
• Opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.

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.

Accountabilities:

Essential Skills and Experience:

For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact xnamex, xjob titlex at xemail addressx.

Individual adjustments: We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: recruitment@cqc.org.uk.

CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

Our Values:

• Excellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation.
• Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect.
• Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’.
• Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can.