Specialist Advisors

Description:

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.