Specialist Advisor – Acute Services

Specialist
Advisor – Acute Services
Location: National 
Daily rate: £300 (£268 day rate + £32/day holiday pay)
Ad-Hoc: As and when required 
Closing Date: Tuesday 28th April 2026 at 11.59pm

Are you
committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England? 
The CQC are looking for Senior Clinicians with experience of clinical
management/governance process to work with us as Specialist Advisors and support our
inspectors in their work through your informed insight, knowledge and
experience of working within Acute Services.

We make sure health and
social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, equitable,
high-quality care and encourage services to improve. We are looking for people
who are caring, demonstrate integrity, aspire to excellence,
committed to equitable and inclusive services and care and work well
as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement.

If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and
social care within England and deliver a service of excellence to the
public then read on.

Why this
could be a great role for you…
You will have an
opportunity to contribute to ensuring that acute services and the care provided
to patients and families are safe, compassionate and effective and by
clinicians with the required skills, approach, infrastructure and outcomes.

You will gain valuable
insight into how acute services are assessed and be exposed to varying degrees
of, and examples of best practice. You will have the opportunity to observe
areas for development and those that will provide useful insights for you and your
own service. You will also support
our inspectors in their work through your informed insight, knowledge and
experience.

The CQC has a strategic
commitment to tackling inequalities. You will be supported in your work through
our National Professional Advisor for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Sola
Afuape MBE as well as through the Advisory and Complimentary Workforce.  The Workforce Equality Risk and Oversight
Group also provides co-ordination and development of our approach to workforce
EDI in our regulation.

What you
will bring… 
Expertise as a consultant,
senior nurse, manager, matron, ACP or AHP specialising acute services. You will
bring experience and understanding of what is necessary to ensure safe care is
available to patients and staff. As part of your role you will assess the
quality of care that is being delivered by staff equipped to provide safe,
dignified and compassionate care.

Your experience will
enable you to understand the opportunities, challenges, and statutory
requirements of the service. You will seek insights from the experiences of
both staff and people who use services and what is needed to ensure safe, good
quality equitable care.

Because you will be
operating as a senior professional, you will contribute to inspection teams
inspiring confidence in provider organisations that the inspection team have
the required level of seniority and expertise to undertake effective
assessments of equity, equality, diversity and inclusion within our assessment
framework.

Finally, most
importantly you will bring an understanding of the diversity of lived
experiences of both staff, people who use services and their families that
should inform our understanding of the culture in which services and care are
provided. This includes demonstrated awareness and understanding of
intersectionality of oppressions.

For an informal discussion or
further information about this role, please contact our Temporary Workforce Team on [email protected].

Please
note this role is subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

 
Being a
Specialist Advisor
This role can be
undertaken as either a Casual Worker, paid directly to a personal bank account
by the CQC for attending in your own time (non-working days, annual leave) or
as a seconded position if your service is registered with the CQC and agrees to
the secondment.  Seconded SpAs' organisations agree in principle that
their employees can attend CQC inspections and the seconded SpA seeks their
line manager's permission to take leave to attend individual inspections, which
can last from one to three days. The seconded SpA's organisation then invoices
the CQC for the time the SpA spent away from their substantive role.

You will be offered
opportunities to support inspection with 6 weeks’ notice whenever possible,
however, you will also be contacted for more short notice support on occasions.
You are under no obligation to accept an inspection should it be offered and it
not be convenient for you. And, we are not able to guarantee you a set number
of inspection opportunities in a one year period. You may be offered one a
month or one in the whole year depending on the focus of the inspection
programme.
If appointed, as a Specialist
Advisor you will be expected to commit to at least 2 inspections per year.

If successful at
interview we aim to conclude your pre-engagement checks within a 6-8 week
window, please complete all forms and take actions to assist the team in
achieving this. You will be provided with a dedicated onboarding peer who will
support you in completing pre-engagement checks and will be on hand to answer
any questions you have. You will be required to have a current DBS certificate
under 3 years old and we require references going back three years.  If
you've been with the same employer for three years’ then we'll only require one
reference.

Eligibility
to work
If you are successful at
interview, CQC will need to verify your right to work in the UK using digital
identity verification. Details of how to complete the right to work check will
be provided as part of the conditional offer of employment. If we are unable to
verify your right to work digitally, we are required to complete this face to
face at one of our CQC Offices. Please be aware that we are unable to progress
any offer of employment until right to work in the UK is confirmed. 

We will
require all successful applicants to be active in Professional Practice.

To access
the full Job Description, please click the link below: 
Specialist Advisor job description.

Individual Adjustments…
We are committed to being open
and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate
the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We
seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them
to identify and facilitate individual adjustments as appropriate.

Should you
require assistance and/or would like to request an adjustment at any stage of
the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: [email protected].