Specialist Advisor – Doctor – Eating Disorders - Homebased - Flexible, United Kingdom SpecialistAdvisor – Doctor – Eating Disorders
Location: National
Daily rate: £300 (£268 day rate + £32 day holiday pay)
Ad-Hoc: As and when required
Closing Date: Wednesday 6th May 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? 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 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, 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 andsocial care within England and deliver a service of excellence to thepublic then read on.
Why thiscould be a great role for you…
You will have anopportunity to contribute to ensuring that eating disorder servicesare safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led and that staffworking in these services have the 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 varyingdegrees of examples of best practice and approaches to improve areas fordevelopment that might provide you with useful insights for yourprovider organisation.
You willsupport our inspectors to spot best practice and anyconcerns during the inspection process through your informedinsight, knowledge and experience.
CQC has a strategiccommitment to putting people’s experiences at the centre of care and todrive improvement. You will be supported in your workthrough our Advisory and ComplimentaryWorkforce.
What youwill bring…
You willhave clinical experience of andwill provide impartial specialist advice on community andinpatient eating disorder services. You will have experience ofproviding care and treatment to individuals requiring naso-gastric tubefeeding under restraint and understand best practise guidance around thisprocedure. You will have experience of and be in current practise of prescribingand administering medicines.
You will support CQCinspectors with clinical expertise by understanding what a goodeating disorder service looks like. This will include how well the service providesdiagnosis and medical management. You will have experience in managingmedical complications associated with eating disorders and balancing physicalversus psychiatric risk.
You willbe competent in operating electronic databases in orderto review care records, incident reports, complaints andpolicies and procedures. You will have experience in overseeing riskassessments and treatment plans.
You will help ensurejudgments are based on credible, up-to-date professional knowledge becauseyou have currentprofessional registration, are actively still working in this field and worktowards these standards yourself.
You will have a strongunderstanding of mental health services, NHS andindependent systems and regulation.
You will alsohave working knowledge of mentalhealth legislation, the Mental Health Act and Code of Practise,and policy and guidance relevant to eating disorder services. Youwill have experience in being involved in making Mental Health Act decisions.
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: