Working in tech at CQC is more than just a job. It’s a chance to make a real difference while doing what you love.
Join our technology community at CQC
CQC is changing. Our newly-formed Technology unit is helping CQC to become a smarter, more flexible and insight-driven regulator.
The unit helps teams across CQC make the best use of technology in their work. They do this by providing high quality digital services that reflect how health and care is changing.
Join us and you could use your skills and knowledge to help us transform our organisation. You'll not only gain experience that will shape your career. Your work will impact the millions of people who use health and social care in England each day.
What we do
CQC is the independent regulator of health and social care in England.
We inspect, monitor and rate a wide range of services, including care homes, hospitals, dental services and many more.
We make sure those services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage them to improve. If we find poor care we will take action to protect people.
We also use our insight and independent voice to promote a national conversation on safety across health and care sectors and systems.
Find out more about our purpose and our role
What we offer
- Work on innovative projects that make a real difference to people using health and social care.
- Access high-quality training on leading Microsoft technologies.
- Be part of our diverse and inclusive team of talented, skilled professionals.
- Join CQC and cross-government communities of practice, where we share information, ideas and learning.
- Learn transferable skills and gain experience that will help shape your career.
We also have a wide range of schemes and benefits you can access when you join us, including:
- 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. After 3 years this increases to 29 days. After 5 years you can take 32.5 days
- flexible working policies
- NHS pension
- travel and shopping discounts
- health and wellbeing support
- family friendly schemes
- continuous service for existing public sector employees.
Find out more on our Employee benefits page.
“We have a fantastic Technology team here at CQC with real passion and depth of experience.
We are looking for enthusiastic and talented people to join the team as we blaze the trail in the world of smarter regulation.”
Anthony Snape
Director of Technology
"CQC provides a great working environment through values, training, support and collaborative working. Not to mention the purpose: ‘We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve’.
This is close to my heart and I love working for an organisation that can help make this happen."
Amanda Coughlan
Major Incident and Service Improvement Manager
"I joined the CQC in April as a graduate after completing a 13 week full-stack development program.
During my first few months in the DevOps team I familiarised myself with the concept of cloud computing. I also prepared for the AZ-900 Microsoft Fundamentals exam which I sat in May. Since then, I have trained in Azure administration, Power Platform and Dynamics. I have also worked with a Senior DevOps engineer to create pipelines in Azure DevOps. I'm now learning Terraform and PowerShell and recently created my first pipeline.
I have found CQC an extremely welcoming, driven and friendly place to work. And I'm excited to delve deeper into DevOps."
Bethan Vaughan
Junior DevOps Engineer
See what the team are working on
Our new strategy for the changing world of health and social care
Using data to transform our regulation (Medium)
Chief Digital Officer Mark Sutton on technology and data at CQC (YouTube)
Microsoft case study: CQC digital transformation project
Developing the technology that will drive insight-driven regulation (Medium)