Specialist Advisor – Acute Services - Homebased - Flexible, United Kingdom

SpecialistAdvisor – 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 youcommitted to helping us regulate health and social care within England?
The CQC are looking for Senior Clinicians with experience of clinicalmanagement/governance process to work with us as Specialist Advisors and support ourinspectors in their work through your informed insight, knowledge andexperience of working within Acute Services.

We make sure health andsocial care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, equitable,high-quality care and encourage services to improve. We are looking for peoplewho are caring, demonstrate integrity, aspire to excellence,committed to equitable and inclusive services and care and work wellas 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 andsocial care within England and deliver a service of excellence to thepublic then read on.

Why thiscould be a great role for you…
You will have anopportunity to contribute to ensuring that acute services and the care providedto patients and families are safe, compassionate and effective and byclinicians with the required skills, approach, infrastructure and outcomes.

You will gain valuableinsight into how acute services are assessed and be exposed to varying degreesof, and examples of best practice. You will have the opportunity to observeareas for development and those that will provide useful insights for you and yourown service. You will also supportour inspectors in their work through your informed insight, knowledge andexperience.

The CQC has a strategiccommitment to tackling inequalities. You will be supported in your work throughour National Professional Advisor for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, SolaAfuape MBE as well as through the Advisory and Complimentary Workforce.  The Workforce Equality Risk and OversightGroup also provides co-ordination and development of our approach to workforceEDI in our regulation.

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

Your experience willenable you to understand the opportunities, challenges, and statutoryrequirements of the service. You will seek insights from the experiences ofboth staff and people who use services and what is needed to ensure safe, goodquality equitable care.

Because you will beoperating as a senior professional, you will contribute to inspection teamsinspiring confidence in provider organisations that the inspection team havethe required level of seniority and expertise to undertake effectiveassessments of equity, equality, diversity and inclusion within our assessmentframework.

Finally, mostimportantly you will bring an understanding of the diversity of livedexperiences of both staff, people who use services and their families thatshould inform our understanding of the culture in which services and care areprovided. This includes demonstrated awareness and understanding ofintersectionality of oppressions.

For an informal discussion orfurther information about this role, please contact our Temporary Workforce Team on

Pleasenote this role is subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

Being aSpecialist Advisor
This role can beundertaken as either a Casual Worker, paid directly to a personal bank accountby the CQC for attending in your own time (non-working days, annual leave) oras a seconded position if your service is registered with the CQC and agrees tothe secondment.  Seconded SpAs’ organisations agree in principle thattheir employees can attend CQC inspections and the seconded SpA seeks theirline manager’s permission to take leave to attend individual inspections, whichcan last from one to three days. The seconded SpA’s organisation then invoicesthe CQC for the time the SpA spent away from their substantive role.

You will be offeredopportunities 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 itnot be convenient for you. And, we are not able to guarantee you a set numberof inspection opportunities in a one year period. You may be offered one amonth or one in the whole year depending on the focus of the inspectionprogramme.
If appointed, as a SpecialistAdvisor you will be expected to commit to at least 2 inspections per year.

If successful atinterview we aim to conclude your pre-engagement checks within a 6-8 weekwindow, please complete all forms and take actions to assist the team inachieving this. You will be provided with a dedicated onboarding peer who willsupport you in completing pre-engagement checks and will be on hand to answerany questions you have. You will be required to have a current DBS certificateunder 3 years old and we require references going back three years.  Ifyou’ve been with the same employer for three years’ then we’ll only require onereference.

Eligibilityto work
If you are successful atinterview, CQC will need to verify your right to work in the UK using digitalidentity verification. Details of how to complete the right to work check willbe provided as part of the conditional offer of employment. If we are unable toverify your right to work digitally, we are required to complete this face toface at one of our CQC Offices. Please be aware that we are unable to progressany offer of employment until right to work in the UK is confirmed.

We willrequire all successful applicants to be active in Professional Practice.

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

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

Should yourequire assistance and/or would like to request an adjustment at any stage ofthe recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: