We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Education Compliance Officer to manage and oversee the educational qualification verification and compliance processes for candidates working within the UK healthcare sector.
The candidate will be responsible for verifying academic qualifications, skilled certifications, training records and other educational documents to ensure candidates meet UK healthcare regulatory and client-specific compliance requirements.
Key Responsibilities
1. Educational Verification
- Verify candidates' educational qualifications, degrees, diplomas and certificates.
- Validate documents with universities, colleges, awarding bodies and relevant institutions.
- Identify fraudulent, altered or inconsistent educational documents.
- Maintain records of qualification checks and verification outcomes.
2. UK Healthcare Compliance
- Ensure candidates meet educational and training requirements for UK healthcare roles.
- Verify mandatory training certificates such as:
- Care Certificate
- Safeguarding Adults
- Safeguarding Children (where applicable)
- Moving & Handling
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Health & Safety
- Equality & Diversity
- Ensure compliance with relevant CQC expectations, client frameworks and healthcare recruitment standards.
3. Documentation & Record Management
- Maintain accurate candidate compliance files and verification trackers.
- Ensure all documents are valid, authentic and up to date.
- Follow up with candidates for missing or incomplete documents.
- Maintain audit-ready records and compliance reports.
4. Regulatory & Process Compliance
- Stay updated with UK healthcare compliance requirements and changes.
- Ensure adherence to GDPR and data protection guidelines.
- Support internal and external compliance audits.
- Escalate discrepancies, suspicious documents or compliance risks to management.
5. Coordination & Communication
- Coordinate with recruitment teams, candidates and educational institutions.
- Ensure timely completion of educational verification checks.
- Provide regular updates on pending and completed verification cases.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
- 1–2 years of experience in compliance, education verification, background screening or UK healthcare recruitment.
- Knowledge of UK healthcare compliance procedures.
- Understanding of educational qualification verification processes.
- Good knowledge of MS Excel, Word and documentation management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and analytical skills.
- Ability to manage multiple verification cases and meet deadlines.
Preferred Experience
- Experience working with UK healthcare recruitment agencies.
- Familiarity with CQC requirements and NHS employment checks.
- Knowledge of UK ENIC qualification comparability services.
- Experience with university verification, awarding bodies and third-party background screening providers.
Pay: ₹25,000.00 - ₹30,000.00 per month
Benefits:
- Commuter assistance
- Flexible schedule
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off