Inspection & Safeguarding Officer

Job Title: Inspection & Safeguarding Officer
Location: Regular travel across Central & South of England
Hours: 37.5 per week (includes participation in SUI on-call rota)
Salary: £45,000 - £47,000 DOE + £5,800 car allowance benefit

Are you passionate about improving care quality and championing resident safety? Join Anchor as our Inspection & Safeguarding Officer!

Are you an experienced inspector or safeguarding professional looking for your next challenge? Do you have a passion for high-quality care and a deep understanding of regulatory compliance? Anchor is looking for a confident, knowledgeable, and values-driven individual to join our team as an Inspection & Safeguarding Officer.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the standard of care across our national portfolio, playing a key role in ensuring our services not only meet—but exceed—regulatory expectations. Your expertise will support both local teams and the wider organisation to embed a culture of continuous improvement and uncompromising safety.

This role will require frequent travel to our care homes across the Central & South of England with occasional overnight stays – including areas such as South Yorkshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Surrey, Sussex and London regions.

What does it mean to be an Inspection & Safeguarding Officer at Anchor?

• Lead with Purpose: Undertake robust internal inspections across all care and home care services in line with CQC standards.
• Influence Change: Produce high-quality inspection reports that identify risks, best practice, and opportunities for improvement
• Be a Trusted Safeguarding Voice: Provide day to day support and guidance to operational colleagues in relation to safeguarding incidents, identifying and escalating potential risk incidents.
• Shape Strategy: Contribute towards the production of national inspection and safeguarding, themes and trends report, making recommendations for regional and national service improvements based on lessons learnt, good practice and evaluation of current practices.
• Innovate our Tools: Support the continuous improvement of the internal inspection tool, ensuing it remains aligned to the current regulatory requirements and internal operating standards.

Who are we looking for?

• Experienced: A strong background in the care sector, ideally with a focus on inspection, auditing, governance or care quality / assurance.
• Digital Understanding:  A previous background in digital care planning (DCP) / digital medication (dMAR)
•  Comprehensive knowledge: Excellent knowledge of CQC Quality Statements, Health & Social Care Act (08,12,14), Mental Capacity Act (05) & DoLS.
• Clear Communicator: You can translate complex findings into accessible, solution-focused reports that inspire action and change.
• Detail-Oriented: Able to evaluate service quality and articulate findings clearly and professionally.
•  Collaborative Partner: You build strong relationships with colleagues and take a supportive, professional approach to driving high standards.

If you’re ready to use your expertise to influence care quality on a national scale – we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help us shape the future of care at Anchor!

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.