Specialist Advisor - General Practitioner

Location: National

Daily Rate: £540 per day (including annual leave entitlement)

Ad Hoc: As and when required

Closing Date: Monday 5th October at 11.59pm

Are you committed to helping us regulate health and

social care in England?

When you think about what drives you every day in your job

and what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work, what comes to

mind?

For more than 3,000 people at 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 that health and social care services provide people

with safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality care, while encouraging

services to improve.

We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate

integrity, aspire to excellence, are committed to equitable and inclusive

services and care, and work well as part of a team to join us and share in this

sense of achievement

If you would like to help us make a positive impact on

health and social care in England and deliver an excellent service to the

public, then read on..

Why this could be a great role for you...

This is an opportunity to use your expertise beyond your own

practice, helping to shape national oversight of primary care and making a

meaningful contribution to the quality, safety and effectiveness of services

delivered across England. As a GP Specialist Advisor, you will ensure that

regulation is informed by the realities of modern general practice, the

challenges faced by providers, and the needs of patients and communities.

We are seeking GPs who are currently in active clinical

practice to join our team of General Practice Specialist Advisors. This

flexible, ad hoc role is designed to complement your existing clinical

commitments while providing a unique opportunity to influence improvement

across primary care services at a national level.

Bringing your frontline experience, professional judgement

and deep understanding of general practice, you will provide valuable clinical

insight to support CQC's assessment activity. Working alongside experienced

regulatory colleagues, you will help ensure that regulatory decisions are fair,

balanced and evidence-based, reflecting the realities of delivering care in

today's primary care environment.

Through this role, you will help identify and promote good

practice, share learning across the sector, and contribute to continuous

improvement in the quality and safety of care. You will also gain a unique

perspective on general practice across England, broadening your understanding

of different models of care, emerging challenges and innovative approaches to

service delivery.

The role offers significant opportunities for personal and

professional development. By working alongside regulatory, clinical and

operational experts, you will strengthen your leadership, quality improvement

and assessment skills, gain insight into the wider healthcare system, and

contribute to your continuing professional development.

If you are passionate about high-quality primary care and

want to use your expertise to make a difference beyond your own practice,

influencing care for patients and communities across England, we would like to

hear from you.

What You Will Bring...

You will have relevant knowledge and experience that will

help you collate and analyse evidence as part of assessment activity. You will

be a skilled communicator, able to engage effectively with providers,

colleagues, people using services and stakeholders at every level.

You will have up-to-date knowledge of clinical practice,

professional standards, national guidance and the regulatory framework for

primary medical services, together with an understanding of quality management

systems, patient safety, clinical governance and continuous improvement.

The primary contribution of the GP Specialist Advisor is to

provide independent clinical expertise and professional insight to assessment

teams. Specialist Advisors are not expected to be regulatory experts but should

use their clinical knowledge, experience and professional judgement to help

evaluate the quality, safety and effectiveness of care and ensure that

assessments are informed by an understanding of contemporary general practice.

Successful candidates for the GP Specialist Advisor role

will have been practising as a GP for at least five years following

qualification. Applicants must hold a current licence to practise and be

included on the NHS GP Performers List.

Where GP Specialist Advisors are GP Partners or salaried

GPs, they must be employed by a practice that currently holds a CQC rating of

either Good or Outstanding.

Successful candidates must also hold an NHS Smartcard and be

confident in the use of digital systems and technology.

Please note that all successful Specialist Advisor

applicants will be required to participate in a generic induction and primary

care-specific training (dates to be confirmed).

You will accompany CQC representatives on inspection and

investigation activities at identified provider organisations, providing

clinical expertise and input to support appropriate regulatory judgements.

Most of the role can be undertaken remotely. However, there

may be occasional requirements to participate in on-site practice visits, and

we would expect you to be available to support these as part of the role.

All successful candidates must be in current professional

practice.

Please note that this role is subject to a satisfactory

DBS check.

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 assessments 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. Please note this is invoiced at the SpA day rate.

You will be offered opportunities to support assessments 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 assessment should it be offered and it not be convenient for you. We are not able to guarantee you a set number of assessment 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 assessment 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.

We are committed to being open and transparent about our

processes and endeavour to provide every candidate with the opportunity to

perform at their best throughout the recruitment process.

We seek to support candidates in identifying potential

challenges and will work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable

adjustments where appropriate.

Should you require assistance or wish to request an

adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of

the team via email at temprecruitment@cqc.org.uk.

This role is not open to applications from

individuals who require sponsorship under the points-based immigration system.

If you apply for this role and are found to require

sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of

employment withdrawn.

CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace

where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know that

diverse teams create a more innovative and productive environment, and we

therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, sex, gender

identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual

orientation.

Candidates must ensure that all information provided within

their application is their own work and is factually accurate. Any examples

included must be drawn from personal experience.

CQC upholds honesty and integrity as core values. If

evidence of plagiarism, AI-generated responses that do not reflect a

candidate's own experience, or content copied from other sources is identified,

applications may be withdrawn.

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