Clinical Compliance & Training Lead

Clinical Compliance & Training LeadSalary: £35,000 – £39,000 (DOE) + NHS PensionLocation: Hybrid (2 days WFH) | South London Hours: Full time Contract: Permanent Compass Associates are partnering with a specialist NHS community healthcare provider to appoint a Clinical Compliance & Training Lead to join its Clinical Services team. This is a rare opportunity to join a highly regarded provider of community healthcare services at an exciting point in its growth. With an unwavering commitment to quality, patient safety and robust governance, the organisation has built a culture of continuous improvement and regulatory excellence. It is now seeking a clinically credible educator who can bring CQC standards to life, turning regulatory expectations into confident, everyday clinical practice across its teams. If you are passionate about education, patient safety and supporting clinical teams to deliver high-quality care, we would love to hear from you. The Role Reporting to the Director of Clinical Services, this is a clinically focused, community-based role that uses education, supervision and professional standards to embed CQC and other regulatory requirements into everyday practice across a multitude of services. Key responsibilities will include: Embed regulatory standards in practice: Act as clinical lead for building CQC and other regulatory standards into everyday clinical work across all locations. Translate standards into role-specific expectations: Turn CQC requirements into practical guidance for each member of the clinical team. Provide clinical leadership: Lead Nurses and other AHCPs visibly, promoting patient safety, dignity, safeguarding and NHS values, and supporting them to work within their scope and escalate concerns. Lead recruitment and selection: Recruit Nurses and AHCPs for values, aptitude and patient centred care, ensuring safe staffing, a suitable skill mix and inclusive progression pathways. Design and deliver induction: Support structured, clinically robust induction programmes for new starters. Develop competency frameworks: Maintain role-specific frameworks for community dermatology and ENT, with consistent, auditable competence assessment and sign-off. Develop local educators: Support and develop AHCPs as mentors, educators and role models. Oversee statutory and mandatory training: Work with the Medical Director and quality team to map training to CQC expectations, monitor compliance and act on gaps that put patients or compliance at risk. Maintain inspection readiness: Help locations stay ready for inspection, take part in mock inspections, and support action plans after inspections, audits or incidents with a focus on education and practice change. Drive governance and improvement: Use incidents, complaints, audits and patient feedback to identify learning needs, contribute to governance forums, and help review clinical policies and SOPs. About You We are keen to speak with organised, credible and collaborative clinical educators who can make regulatory standards meaningful at the frontline. To be considered, you will have: Experience recruiting, educating and supporting nurses and other AHCPs. A strong working knowledge of CQC and other regulatory standards, and how they apply to frontline clinical practice. Experience supporting services through CQC inspections. Strong organisational skills. Location This is a hybrid position based in South London. Salary & Benefits Salary: £35,000 – £39,000, dependent on experience NHS Pension 28 days of AL Additional training to further your career (paid for) Employee wellbeing programme Blue light discount Flexible working Free breakfast on a Wednesday Free drinks on Thursday Social Events In house challenges = gift cards Contact Information For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact: Catherine McConnachiePrincipal Consultant – Primary CareCompass Associates0161 938 1188cmcconnachie@compassltd.co.uk Compass Associates Ltd is acting as a recruitment consultancy for this vacancy.