Specialist Advisor - General Internal Medicine Consultant Doctor

Job title: Specialist Advisor - General Internal Medicine Consultant Doctor

Location: National

Daily rate: £300 (£268 day rate + £32 day holiday pay)

Ad-Hoc: As and when required

Closing Date: Thursday 26th March 2026 at 11.59pm

Essential Criteria: Successful candidates must be on the GMC specialist register as a speciality consultant in a medical specialty and currently in a substantive contract.

Desirable Criteria: Experience in Quality Improvement, Data Analysis, Leadership of services / divisions.

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 services and care provided to millions of people are safe, compassionate and effective and led by senior leaders with the required skills and gain valuable insight into how organisations are assessed and be exposed to varying degrees of best practice.

What you will bring

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 experienced senior leaders currently working in Professional Practice who can bring their expertise in leadership, governance and strategy to rigorously assess organisational effectiveness at the highest level and provide specialist advice and input into the Care Quality Commission's (CQC's) regulatory inspection and investigation activity. This advice ensures that CQC's judgements are informed by up to date and credible clinical and professional knowledge and experience.

Please see below the specialism categories 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 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 minimum 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. We are not able to guarantee you a set number of inspection opportunities in a one year period. We recommend you undertake a minimum of two inspections a year.

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 note the following: 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.

• Thursday 26th February
• Friday 27th February
• Tuesday 3rd March
• Thursday 5th March
• Friday 6th March

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: .