Location: National
Daily rate: £300
Ad-Hoc: As and when required
Closing date: Monday 7th July 2025 at 11.59pm
Are you an experienced
Air Ambulance & Capability Paramedic currently working at a Trust or Air Ambulance provider? If so, we want to hear from you.
We are seeking skilled professionals to support the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) inspection programme. In this role, you will provide specialist advice and insight - helping ensure our judgements reflect the most current, credible professional standards and practice.
We are currently recruiting experts with the following specialism and/or clinical skills:
Air Ambulance
Emergency Capability Paramedics (e.g. HART and Specialist Response teams)
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. You will also collaborate with senior leaders to gain valuable insight into how organisations are assessed and be exposed to varying degrees of best practice.
The role of Specialist Advisor offers the opportunity for peer-to-peer learning in healthcare settings nationwide, as well as the chance to elevate transferable skills and expertise within clinical practice.
What you will bring…
The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will
Currently work as a Critical Care Paramedic or Paramedic with advanced emergency training.
Be experienced in leading and managing teams.
Have a proven track record in clinical governance, quality improvements, and change management.
Have an up-to-date appraisal in their local organisation and have completed mandatory training, including equality, diversity, and inclusion training.
Demonstrate strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams.
Have a solid understanding of equality, diversity, and inclusion legislation and guidance relevant to health and social care providers.
Being a Specialist Advisor
Please note that all CQC Specialist Advisors are required to be substantively employed in active Professional Practice at a trust or provider, in a role aligned to the scope and specialisms of their work with CQC. If this role is within a clinical setting, it needs to include regular, clinical interactions with patients or service users monthly. For non-clinical professions, this should include direct work or direct line management of work with service users. Professional Practice does not include supportive areas, such as teaching, training or an advisory position.
This Role Can Be Undertaken In Two Ways
Casual Worker: Paid directly by the CQC for attending inspections in your own time (non-working days, annual leave).
Seconded Position: If your service is registered with the CQC and agrees to the secondment. Your organization agrees in principle, and you seek your line manager's permission to take leave for inspections (lasting 1-3 days). Your organization then invoices the CQC for your time away.
Post-offer
Pre-Engagement Checks: If successful at the interview, we aim to complete pre-engagement checks within 12 weeks, with your cooperation. You'll have a dedicated onboarding peer for support.
Requirements: A current Enhanced DBS certificate (under 3 years old) and references covering the last three years. If you've been with the same employer for three years, only one reference is needed.
Inspection Opportunities: You'll be offered inspection opportunities with 6 weeks' notice whenever possible, but sometimes on short notice. You are not obligated to accept if it's inconvenient. The number of opportunities can vary widely.
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.
Next steps
If you apply, you’ll need to create a profile and complete an online application form.
Your application will be completely anonymous. Please see our information for applicants for more details on the process.
We contact every applicant to let them know the outcome of their application, so you will hear from us whether or not you are shortlisted.
You can read the full details of the role in the
Job Description Specialist Advisor Job Description
If you’d like an informal chat about the role contact – Stella Williams, Senior Specialist at
[email protected]. For general enquiries, please email
[email protected].
Equity for all
We know job descriptions can feel intimidating. Research shows they can cause some people to doubt whether they’re a good fit. This happens more often to people from underrepresented groups (e.g. ethnic minority backgrounds).
If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply. Your unique perspective, skills, and experience could be exactly what we need.
We want every candidate to feel supported and able to do their best. If you need adjustments to our process,
we’ll work with you to remove any barriers. Visit our accessibility page for more on this. If you’d like to chat, please contact
[email protected].
We promote a workplace where
fairness, respect and inclusion are a priority. Diverse teams make our work better, help us deliver our mission and make our culture stronger. See our ED&I page for more about this.
We Welcome Applications From Everyone, And Colleagues Can Find Support And Community Among Our Many Employee Networks. This Includes People Of Any
- Age
- Sex
- Gender identity or expression
- Sexual orientation
- Religion or belief
- Ethnicity
- Disability
A Note on AI
About
AI tools can be great for research and refining ideas, but we want to learn about you. If you use AI or Chatbots to help you with your application, keep these points in mind:
- AI can support research, structuring and refining your writing, but your application must reflect your real skills and experience.
- Spell-checking and condensing word counts are great ways to use AI effectively.
- Do not copy and paste AI generated answers. These will not help you stand out; remember we want to hear about your skills and experience.
- Providing false and insincere examples goes against our core values of honesty and integrity and may lead to your application being withdrawn or termination of your employment.
Values and vision
We are guided by our core values, which shape our work and our culture.
Excellence – being a high-performing organisation.
Caring – treating everyone with dignity and respect.
Integrity – doing the right thing.
Teamwork – learning from each other to be the best we can.
We are a disability confident employer and a carer confident employer.
