Specialist Advisor - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Location: National

Daily rate: £300

Duration: Ad hoc

Closing Date: Sunday 23rd March 2025 at 11.59pm

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.

This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

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…

You will 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 with the required skills, approach, infrastructure and outcomes.

You will gain valuable insight into how organisations are assessed and be exposed to varying degrees of examples of best practice and approaches to improve areas for development that might provide you with useful insights as a provider Board member and for your provider organisation.

You will also support our inspectors to develop Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) practice in their work through your informed insight, knowledge and experience.

CQC has a strategic commitment to tackling inequalities. You will be supported in your work through our National Professional Advisor for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Sola Afuape MBE as well as through the Advisory and Complimentary Workforce. The Workforce Equality Risk and Oversight Group also provides co-ordination and development of our approach to workforce EDI in our regulation.

What you will bring…

Board level expertise and experience of health and/or social care provider services and understanding of what is necessary for them to be well-led. 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 equality, diversity and inclusion legislation, policy and guidance relevant to health and/or social care providers and experience providing oversight and seeking assurance that these settings are effective, compassionate and well-led.

Because you will be operating at Board level, you will contribute to inspection teams inspiring confidence in provider organisations that the inspection team have the required level of seniority and expertise to undertake robust assessments of equity, equality, diversity and inclusion within our assessment framework.

Finally, most importantly you will 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. This includes demonstrated awareness and understanding of intersectionality of oppressions.

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 any relevant potential barriers to work 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: temprecruitment@cqc.org.uk

For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact Equityandrights@cqc.org.uk

To access the full Job Description, please click the link below:

SpA - Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - Job Description

CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

Candidates must ensure that all information provided in their application is detailed in their own words and is factually accurate. Any examples provided must be taken from personal experience. CQC abides by honesty and integrity as part of its core values, if evidence of plagiarism or generating answers from other sources is found, applications may be withdrawn.

Our Values

Excellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation

Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect

Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’

Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can