Company: Care Quality Commission
Location:
Posted: March 18th, 2026
Job title: SpecialistAdvisor General Internal Medicine Consultant Doctor
Location:National
Daily rate:300 (268 day rate + 32 day holiday pay)
Ad-Hoc:As and when required
ClosingDate: 26th May 2026 at 11.59pm
Essential Criteria: Successful candidates must be onthe GMCspecialist register as a speciality consultant in a medical specialty and currentlyin a substantive contract.
Desirable Criteria: Experience inQuality Improvement, Data Analysis, Leadership of services / divisions.
Are youcommitted to helping us regulate health and social care within England?
When thinking about what drivesyou every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about yourwork,what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each dayknowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need inour communities.
We make sure health and socialcare services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, equitable,high-quality care and encourage services to improve. We are looking for peoplewho are caring,demonstrateintegrity,aspire toexcellence,committed to equitable and inclusive services and careandwork wellas part of a teamto join with us and share in this sense of achievement.If you would like to helpusmake a positive impact to health and socialcare withinEngland and deliver a service of excellence to thepublicthen read on.
Why thiscould bea great rolefor you
You will have an opportunity tocontribute to ensuring that services and care provided to millions of peopleare safe compassionate and effective and led by senior leaders with therequired skills and gain valuable insight into how organisations are assessedand be exposed to varying degrees of best practice.
What youwill bring
As the ideal candidate for this role, youwill;
We are looking for experiencedsenior leaders currently working in Professional Practice who can bring theirexpertise in leadership, governance and strategy to rigorously assessorganisational effectiveness at the highest level and provide specialist adviceand input into the Care Quality Commissions (CQCs) regulatory inspection andinvestigation activity. This advice ensures that CQCs judgements are informedby up to date and credible clinical and professional knowledge and experience.
Please see below the specialismcategories we are looking to recruit from;
Being aSpecialist Advisor
This role can be undertaken aseither a Casual Worker, paid directly to a personal bank account by the CQC forattending in your own time (non-working days, annual leave) or as a secondedposition if your service is registered with the CQC and agrees to thesecondment. Seconded SpAs' organisations agree in principle that theiremployees can attend CQC inspections and the seconded SpA seeks their linemanager's permission to take leave to attend individual inspections, which canlast from one to three days. The seconded SpA's organisation then invoices theCQC for the time the SpA spent away from their substantive role.
You will be offered opportunitiesto support inspection with minimum 6 weeks notice whenever possible, however,you will also be contacted for more short notice support on occasions. You areunder no obligation to accept an inspection should it be offered and it not beconvenient for you. We are not able to guarantee you a set number of inspectionopportunities in a one year period. We recommend you undertake a minimum of twoinspections a year.
If successful at interview we aimto conclude your pre-engagement checks within a 6-8 week window, pleasecomplete all forms and take actions to assist the team in achieving this. Youwill be provided with a dedicated onboarding peer who will support you incompleting pre-engagement checks and will be on hand to answer any questionsyou have. You will be required to have a current DBS certificate under 3 yearsold and we require references going back three years. If you've been withthe same employer for three years then we'll only require one reference.
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:
Job description - SpA General Internal Medicine Consultant Doctor
For an informal discussion or further information please join a drop-in call led by Dr Sanjay Krishnamoorthy, National Professional Advisor Medical Specialties. Please contact temprecruitment@cqc.org.uk for further information.
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:temprecruitment@cqc.org.uk.