Adult social care only SERVICE 05 · STRENGTHEN
Walk into your CQC interview prepared.
One-to-one coaching for registered manager and fit person interviews — realistic mock questions, honest feedback and a clear framework for answering with evidence, not nerves.
Fitness, tested
The interview checks you're a fit person: that you understand your legal duties and can run the service your application describes.
Your documents
Questions are built from your own statement of purpose and policies — inconsistency between what you say and what you submitted is the classic failure.
2–4 sessions
Most candidates are interview-ready after two to four focused sessions — booked around your schedule, online or in person.
The themes we rehearse
Interviews follow the five key questions. We coach you to answer each theme with a structure: what you do, how it's recorded, and how you'd evidence it.
Safeguarding scenarios
"A carer reports a bruise…" — recognising, responding, referring and recording, including local authority thresholds.
Medication and risk
Errors, competency checks, risk assessments and how you balance independence with safety.
Staffing and recruitment
Safer recruitment, induction, training, supervision — and what you'd do when someone falls short.
Governance and well-led
Audits, oversight, notifications and how you'll know things are working — the well-led evidence loop.
Duty of candour
What openness means in practice when something goes wrong — apology, notification and learning.
Your statement of purpose
Knowing your own application inside out — service model, people, locations and regulated activities.
How the coaching works
Baseline session
We review your application and run a short practice round to find strengths and gaps — no judgement, just a map.
Knowledge building
Targeted work on weak themes with plain-English briefings, your policies and an answer structure you can reuse.
Full mock interview
A realistic, timed rehearsal with scenario questions and follow-ups, then structured feedback on every answer.
Final polish
A confidence run close to the real date, plus a one-page crib of your key facts, figures and evidence examples.
Interview booked? Let's get you ready for it.
20 minutes with a specialist. No pitch - you keep the plan either way.