Specialist Advisor – General Internal Medicine Consultant Doctor

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:  Thursday 26th February 2026 at 11.59pm

Essential Criteria: Successful candidates must be on the 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, 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 and socialcare within England and deliver a service of excellence to thepublic then read on. 

Why thiscould be a great role for 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;

1. Be currently employed as a substantive consultant within a medical specialty. If you have additional experience in providing General Internal Medicine, please highlight this.
2. Have experience in interrogating clinical datasets including national clinical audits and quality improvement projects.
3. Have personal experience in quality improvement and change management.
4. Possess an up-to-date appraisal in your local organisation and completion of mandatory training, including equality diversity and inclusion training.
5. Demonstrate strong communication skills and evidence of collaborative / MDT working.

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 Commission’s (CQCs) regulatory inspection andinvestigation activity. This advice ensures that CQC’s 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;

• General Internal Medicine
• Acute Internal Medicine
• Cardiology
• Respiratory Medicine
• Gastroenterology
• Haematology
• Care of the Elderly
• Endocrinology
• Neurology
• Oncology
• Palliative Care
• Renal Medicine
• Hepatology

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 adrop-in call led by Dr Sanjay Krishnamoorthy, National Professional AdvisorMedical Specialties.

Please contact temprecruitment@cqc.org.uk with your preferred date from the options below and a Microsoft Teams invitewill be shared.

• Thursday 26th February 1700-1800
• Friday 27th February 1200-1300
• Tuesday 3rd March 1200-1300
• Thursday 5th March 1700-1800
• Friday 6th March 1200-1300

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.