Specialist
Advisor – Nurse – Eating Disorders
Location: National
Daily rate: £300 (£268 day rate + £32 day holiday pay)
Ad-Hoc: As and when required
Closing Date: Wednesday 6th May 2026 at
11.59pm
Are you
committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?
When thinking about what
drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about
your work, what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day
knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in
our communities.
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 eating disorder services are safe, effective,
caring, responsive and well-led and that staff working in these services have
the required skills, approach, infrastructure and outcomes to effectively treat
people using these services.
You will gain valuable
insight into how organisations are assessed and be exposed to varying degrees
of examples of best practice and approaches to improve areas for development
that might provide you with useful insights for your provider organisation.
You will support our
inspectors to spot best practice and any concerns during the inspection process
through your informed insight, knowledge and experience.
The CQC has a strategic
commitment to putting people’s experiences at the centre of care and to drive
improvement. You will be supported in your work through our Advisory and Complimentary Workforce.
What you
will bring…
You will have clinical experience of and will provide impartial specialist
advice on community and inpatient eating disorder services. You will have
experience of providing naso-gastric tube feeding under restraint and
understand best practise guidance around this procedure. You will have
experience of and be in current practise of administering medicines.
You will support CQC inspectors with clinical expertise by understanding
what a good eating disorder service looks like.
You will be competent in operating electronic databases in order to
review care records, incident reports, complaints and policies and procedures.
You will help ensure
judgments are based on credible, up-to-date professional knowledge because you have current professional registration, are
actively still working in this field and work towards these standards yourself.
You will have a strong
understanding of mental health services, NHS and independent systems and
regulation.
You will also have
working knowledge of mental health legislation, the Mental Health Act and Code
of Practise, and policy and guidance relevant to eating disorder services.
For an informal discussion or further information
about this role, please contact Katharine Cromey via email at
[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 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:
20190523 - Specialist Advisor Job Description (8).doc
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].