Specialist Advisor - End of Life Care

Specialist Advisor – End of Life Care Location: National Daily rate: £300 (£268 day rate + £32/day holiday pay) Ad-Hoc: As and when required Closing Date: Monday, 17th August 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… We at CQC are focussing on end of life care within the acute sector. You’ll 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 will the required skills, approach, infrastructure and outcomes. You will be supported in your work through our National Professional Advisor for Medicine and operational colleagues. What you will bring… Expertise as a consultant, senior nurse, manager, matron, ACP or AHP specialising end of life care in acute services. You will have extensive experience of End-of-Life Care provider services and understanding of what is necessary for them to be regulated. This includes the opportunities, challenges, statutory requirements and insight from experiences of both staff and people who use services and what is needed to ensure safe, good quality equitable care. You will also have working knowledge of legislation, policy and guidance relevant to End of Life Care and experience in providing end of life care to patients in a hospital setting. You will also bring an understanding of the diversity of lived experiences of both staff, people who use services and their families that should inform our understanding of the culture in which services and care are provided. Please note, that all Specialist Advisors must be in current professional practice within a clinical role relevant to their specialist advisory area. For an informal discussion or further information about this role, please contact the recruitment team 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. 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]. The job description can be found below: Job Description