National Professional Advisors x 5 (Various)
Location
Holloway, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
National Professional Advisors x 5 (Various)
Regulatory Leadership Integrated Care, Inequalities, and Improvement (IcII) and Mental Health (MH)
Salary: Aligned to Professional Experience
Contracted Hours: Various 0.4 (2 days) or 0.2 (1 day) FTE Equivalent
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract Until 31 March 2024 in first instance. May be able to extend.
Location: Home-based with National travel
Closing Date: Tuesday 10th October 2023 at 11.59pm
Interview Date: Face to Face or via MS Teams (tbc)
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, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity 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, then read on.
Why this could be a great role for you…
We have an opportunity for five exceptional clinicians and professionals to join our team of National Professional Advisors working in our Regulatory Leadership function. You will provide clinical and professional expertise to colleagues working across CQC, this will be across both operational and strategic aspects of our work. Reporting to one of our Directors within Regulatory Leadership, you will drive improvements through regulation and play a key role in making a difference for people who use services.
The areas of expertise we are looking for are as follows within our Integrated Care, Inequalities, and Improvement (IcII) and Mental Health (MH) teams:
Integrated Care, Inequalities, and Improvement
1 x 0.2- 0.4FTE Health Inequalities (IcII)
1 x 0.2- 0.4FTE Integrated Care Systems (IcII)
Mental Health
1 x 0.2FTE Forensic MH (MH)
1 x 0.2FTE Substance Misuse (MH)
1 x 0.2FTE Rehabilitation and Community MH (MH)
We are particularly interested to hear from senior health and care professionals working at consultant level (medical / nursing / allied health professional) and/or director level professionals.
As well as scope to shape policy and contribute to CQC’s strategy, you will play a key role in providing clinical and professional expertise for inspection and assessment teams. You will develop strong relationships with stakeholders internally and externally and work in collaboration to deliver a safe regulatory service.
You’ll support stakeholder involvement with external organisations such as, but not limited to, The Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England, NHS England/Improvement, Royal Colleges and specialist societies, other national regulators and local stakeholders, providers, integrated care systems and local authorities.
You’ll work with other National Professional Advisors (NPAs) across the CQC and will provide support and advise on our impending model of regulation.
What we can offer you...
Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5days, plus 8 Bank Holidays pro rata), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.
We want to support you to succeed and be your very best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.
We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.
What you will bring…
You’ll be expected to have in-depth experience of operating at a very senior level in the health and care sector with specialist expertise and credibility in your relevant professional field.
You will be a highly experienced clinician or professional with an understanding of health and care and a passion to make improvements for people through regulation. The ability to communicate and collaborate with stakeholders internally and externally is essential along with excellent interpersonal skills. You should be personally resilient and good at working under pressure.
You will work flexibly to accommodate the competing and exciting demands of the role, with the need to prioritise depending on the risk and impact of regulation.
JD Accountabilities:
- To provide authoritative information and advice to shape the CQC regulatory model.
- To analyse the implications of emerging national professional policy, standards and guidance, and provide advice on the relevance and impact this may have.
- To support the development of the regulatory approach.
- To support the recruitment and training of specialist advisors.
- To provide clinical expertise to quality assurance panels.
- To lead working groups and chair committees to assist the development and implementation of CQC strategy and policy.
- To provide professional advice for work streams that are of central importance to CQC.
- To advise on key indicators or metrics to use.
- To lead in developing relationships with professional external stakeholders.
- To represent CQC and act as an ambassador at external events.
- To provide advice on external engagements and communications.
Essential Skills
The post holder will be/have:
- Highly experienced and specialist clinician or professional with current experience as a clinical / professional consultant (dependant on specialism).
- Appropriate qualifications for a professional at this level (dependent on specialism).
- Specific specialist knowledge as detailed in job advertisement.
- Ability to collaborate with senior managers, clinicians and professionals.
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills to influence national policy.
Desirable Skills
- Strong understanding of CQC’s regulatory remit.
- Knowledge and understanding of health and social care policies.
- Understanding of policy development.
- To lead on responding to professional and clinical consultations.
- To contribute to development of staff across the organisation.
- To contribute to complaints investigations and appraisals of specialist advisor colleagues, where appropriate.
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