Professional Services Legal Lead

About the NMC

Our vision is safe, effective and kind nursing and midwifery practice that improves everyone's health and wellbeing. As the independent regulator of more than 826,000 nursing and midwifery professionals, we have an important role to play in making this a reality.

Our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion

The NMC is an exciting organisation with the ambition to be the leading healthcare regulator. To achieve this, we are working in an agile way that offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds. We are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, maternity, disability, or gender identity and welcome applications from under-represented groups.

Details of our EDI work and plans are here:

About the Team

We are looking to welcome a part-time legal professional services lead into the NMC's General Counsel team.

The General Counsel team provides legal advice and support to the NMC to enable us to fulfil our regulatory purpose, live our values and manage legal risk. It is part of a large, talented legal community, which delivers legal services across multiple teams and specialisms.

Our One NMC Legal Community delivers an NMC values based legal service, which facilitates the NMC to protect the public and manage legal risk.

Our vision is to make a positive contribution to the NMC, lead a culture of equality diversity and inclusion and learn from challenges.

We are committed to making the NMC a great place to work for legal professionals, where we are supported to grow, learn and meet our professional obligations

About the Role

Please note this role is offered on a flexible part time basis for 21.5 hours per week.

You will be responsible for overseeing a programme of work to support NMC legal professionals to deliver a high-quality service and make the NMC a great place to work for our legal community.

You will oversee the NMC's Legal Learning Programme and be responsible for policy development in relation to legal professional issues. You will also oversee the NMC's legal knowledge management process with responsibility for advising Council and the Executive on legal risks or opportunities arising out of external legal developments. You'll play a key role in helping our legal community lead a culture of equality diversity and inclusion and will have a passion for working with and supporting aspiring legal professionals to reach their goals.

About You

This is a new role with the opportunity to be creative and innovative at a time of change for the NMC. A large part of the role involves collaborating with legal professionals and the in-house client to deliver on the programme's aims and objectives. You'll have excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills and be able to proactively manage your work and the work of others to make an impact in this important area

Benefits:

• 30 days annual leave - plus eight days paid bank holidays
• Enhanced Pension Contributions via our attractive Pension Scheme - with a basic 8% employer contribution as standard which increases up to 14% with optional added Employee Contributions
• Life Assurance - 4 x current salary
• Hybrid/Flexible working policies
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Perkbox membership
• Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office
• Season ticket loans

About Us

Our core role is to regulate. First, we promote high education and professional standards for nurses and midwives across the UK, and nursing associates in England. Second, we maintain the register of professionals eligible to practise. Third, we investigate concerns about nurses, midwives and nursing associates - something that affects a tiny minority of professionals each year. We believe in giving professionals the chance to address concerns, but we'll always take action when needed.

To regulate well, we support our professions and the public. We create resources and guidance that are useful throughout people's careers, helping them to deliver our standards in practice and address new challenges. We also support people involved in our investigations, and we're increasing our visibility so people feel engaged and empowered to shape our work.

Regulating and supporting our professions allows us to influence health and social care. We share intelligence from our regulatory activities and work with our partners to support workforce planning and sector-wide decision making. We use our voice to speak up for a healthy and inclusive working environment for our professions.

Check out our NMC LinkedIn page here for an insight into the NMC, our vacancies and the world of healthcare regulation.

Additional Information

Please note, if we receive a high level of applications, we may choose to close this advert early. We encourage you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Successful candidates will be appointed to a particular NMC Office, but you may be required to travel to other NMC locations, that are reasonable daily commute from your home office.

Our Pay Policy

It is expected that staff new to the NMC will ordinarily be appointed to the bottom of the relevant pay band. However in exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a salary above the bottom of the relevant pay band but we may request proof of current earnings. Please note that we offer an annual review of salaries and adopt a generous progressive pay approach. Further details of which are available on request.

For our internal colleagues, you will be paid in accordance to our internal pay policy.

Reasonable adjustments

We will provide reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any additional support to enable you to make an application with us.

Screening and vetting

All of our roles are subject to pre-employment checks. We are in the process of introducing a vetting policy, and it is possible that this role may become subject to DBS and further vetting checks in future.