Quality Partner - Scotland

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• Location: Based in Aberdeen, with travel across Scotland to support our locations.
• Travel:Flexible travel required to support locations and divisional offices (approx. 50% on site)
• Transport:Full UK driving licence and access to a car/vehicle
• Contract: Full-time

We're Affinity Trust. We’re on a mission to drive outstanding, person ‑ centred support that changes lives. As we grow, we need bold, energetic improvement champions who turn insight into action and ignite lasting change for the people we support.

You’ll be the spark that lifts standards, reduces risk and embeds brilliant practice. As a visible, trusted Quality Partner you’ll move between locations, coach operational teams, lead improvement projects and make sure the people we support get safe, creative, person-centred support to reach their goals.

If you love solving problems, influencing practice and seeing tangible impact, this is the role for you.

• Lead Quality Assurance visits and audits that spot opportunities and spark real improvement.
• Coach and prepare teams for inspections and contract checks. Be the calm, confident lead pre, during and post‑inspection.
• Own divisional Quality, Performance & Risk meetings. Turn data into clear actions and measurable results.
• Design and deliver high‑energy workshops and working groups that embed best practice and spread learning across the organisation.
• Run focused improvement projects end‑to‑end: plan, coordinate weekly actions, unblock barriers and deliver outcomes.
• Drive person‑centred initiatives that change everyday practice for the better.
• Support investigations, safeguarding and lessons‑learned work. Translate findings into training, guidance and system fixes.
• Build clear process maps, practical guidance and engaging training materials.
• Champion co‑production involving people we support in shaping improvements.

• Experienced in regulated support (health, social care, supported living or similar) with strong knowledge of regulation, quality frameworks and safeguarding.
• A confident auditor/inspector who gets great results under pressure.
• A natural influencer and facilitator, skilled at running workshops, chairing meetings and winning buy‑in.
• Data‑driven and practical. You turn insight into simple, actionable plans.
• Project‑savvy: you manage multiple stakeholders and drive actions to completion.
• Flexible, mobile and resilient, comfortable with travel.

• Real impact: see improvements translate into better lives every day.
• Shape national practice: your ideas will influence organisational policy and day‑to‑day delivery.
• A supportive culture that invests in your development.
• Meaningful, values‑led work.

You will have access to a range of benefits that you can mix and match to suit you, such as:

• Stream – an app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it, access to coaching, vouchers, discounts, cashback and more.
• Blue light card – we will reimburse your Blue Light Card membership which provides discounts in your favourite shops and restaurants.
• Simplyhealth - Fully funded health cash plans giving you access to a 24-hour GP, money back on prescriptions, dental treatment, opticians and access to many more health benefits.
• Buy and sell annual leave – transfer windows open twice a year.
• Pension and Life Assurance -you’ll be enrolled into our Scottish Widows pension scheme and our Life Assurance scheme

If you are offered a role with us, you will need to complete a PVG check. We will submit your application and pay for your check.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if sufficient applications are received.

We’re committed to being Disability Confident and we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.