Joe Harris – Care Consultant

Joe’s career spans frontline mental health care, service management, regulation and consultancy across the NHS, voluntary and independent sectors. His clinical background includes acute adult mental health and forensic psychiatry, alongside experience in older people’s care and learning disability services.

He spent several years as a regulatory and compliance inspector with CQC and its predecessor organisations, undertaking inspections, reporting and enforcement work. During this time, he contributed to domiciliary care inspection methodology and trained colleagues in the Short Observational Framework for Inspection. He later held improvement and compliance roles with care providers before establishing his own consultancy, delivering turnaround projects, investigations, interim management and support for new services.

At Fulcrum Care, Joe undertakes mock inspections and quality reviews across care homes and domiciliary services, producing detailed reports and practical action plans. He works with managers and senior leaders to understand findings, address underlying concerns and strengthen quality assurance. His collaborative approach combines regulatory insight with an appreciation of the pressures facing care teams, helping providers make clear, informed decisions about improvement.