Specialist Advisor Nurse Eating Disorders Job at London Full Time

Specialist Advisor Nurse Eating Disorders – Homebased – Flexible, United Kingdom

Location: National

Daily rate:day rate + 32 day holiday pay)
Ad-Hoc: As and when required
Closing Date: Saturday 6th June 2026 at11.59pm
Are youcommitted to helping us regulate health and social care within England?
When thinking about whatdrives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate aboutyour work,what comes to mind? Forpeople 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 andsocial care 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 andsocial care withinEngland and deliver a service of excellence to thepublicthen read on.
Why thiscould bea great rolefor you
You will have anopportunity to contribute to ensuring that eating disorder services are safe, effective,caring, responsive and well-led and that staff working in these services havethe required skills, approach, infrastructure and outcomes to effectively treatpeople using these services.
You will gain valuableinsight into how organisations are assessed and be exposed to varying degreesof examples of best practice and approaches to improve areas for developmentthat might provide you with useful insights for your provider organisation.
You will support ourinspectors to spot best practice and any concerns during the inspection processthrough your informed insight, knowledge and experience.
The CQC has a strategiccommitment to putting peoples experiences at the centre of care and to driveimprovement. You will be supported in your work through our Advisory and Complimentary Workforce.

What youwill bring

You will have clinical experience of and will provide impartial specialistadvice on community and inpatient eating disorder services. You will haveexperience of providing naso-gastric tube feeding under restraint andunderstand best practise guidance around this procedure. You will haveexperience of and be in current practise of administering medicines.
You will support CQC inspectors with clinical expertise by understandingwhat a good eating disorder service looks like.
You will be competent in operating electronic databases in order toreview care records, incident reports, complaints and policies and procedures.
You will help ensurejudgments are based on credible, up-to-date professional knowledge because you have current professional registration, areactively still working in this field and work towards these standards yourself.
You will have a strongunderstanding of mental health services, NHS and independent systems andregulation.
You will also haveworking knowledge of mental health legislation, the Mental Health Act and Codeof Practise, and policy and guidance relevant to eating disorder services.
For an informal discussion or further informationabout this role, please contact Katharine Cromey via email at

Pleasenote this role is subject to a satisfactory DBS check

• Being aSpecialist Advisor
• This role can beundertaken as either a Casual Worker, paid directly to a personal bank accountby the CQC for attending in your own time (non-working days, annual leave) oras a seconded position if your service is registered with the CQC and agrees tothe secondment.

Seconded SpAs’ organisations agree in principle thattheir employees can attend CQC inspections and the seconded SpA seeks theirline manager’s permission to take leave to attend individual inspections, whichcan last from one to three days. The seconded SpA’s organisation then invoicesthe CQC for the time the SpA spent away from their substantive role.
You will be offeredopportunities 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 itnot be convenient for you. And, we are not able to guarantee you a set numberof inspection opportunities in a one year period. You may be offered one amonth or one in the whole year depending on the focus of the inspectionprogramme.
If successful atinterview, we aim to conclude your pre-engagement checks within a 6-8 weekwindow, please complete all forms and take actions to assist the team inachieving this. You will be provided with a dedicated onboarding peer who willsupport you in completing pre-engagement checks and will be on hand to answerany questions you have.
You will be required to have a current DBS certificateunder 3 years old and we require references going back three years. Ifyou’ve been with the same employer for three years then we’ll only require onereference.

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.

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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: