Senior Investigations Lawyer

**Job Title: Senior Investigations Lawyer**

**Contract Status: Permanent - 36 hours per week**

**Salary: £56,872 - £66,908 per annum**

**Location:London with travel to Edinburgh as required**

**We are adopting a hybrid approach to working and our teams are planning for this. For most roles this will mean a mix of office based and remote working.**
- **Working life doesn't always have to be 'nine to five' and we support flexible working wherever possible. Please chat to our resourcing team about the flexibility we could offer for this role.**_
- **We are continuing to review our ways of working, and our return to our offices in the coming months will be gradual and considered, with the well-being of our teams as our primary focus as well as moving forward with incorporating remote workinginto our future.**_

**About us**

Our vision is safe, effective and kind nursing and midwifery that improves everyone's health and wellbeing. As the professional regulator of more than 725,000 nursing and midwifery professionals, we have an important role to play in making this a reality.

Our core role is to **regulate**. First, we promote high 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 investigatewhen nursing or midwifery care goes wrong - something that affects less than one percent of professionals each year.

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 peopleinvolved 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 useour voice to speak up for a healthy and inclusive working environment for our professions.

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**About the role**

It is a great time to join our Professional Regulation directorate as we move towards our new strategy, and embedding a culture of putting people at the heart of everything we do. We are passionate about our customer service and ensuring everyone who comesinto contact with our employees receives an excellent service.

As senior lawyer in our Case Investigations team you'll be responsible for supervising and advising lawyers and case management colleagues to ensure our assessment, case direction and decision making is consistent with our published guidance.You will playa key part in managing legal risk. Your role will see you taking a leading role in respect of some of our most complex fitness to practise referrals, including cases with police involvement, cases arising from public inquiries and cases receiving nationalmedia coverage. This will include assessing and identifying cases requiring immediate action in order to protect the public.

**About you**

We support the professional development of our lawyers, from securing additional qualifications to assist with the work of the organisation, through to judicial and other appointments. Several of our lawyers, past and present, have judicial and legal adviser'sroles.

**Skills and experience required**
- Must be an experienced solicitor or barrister with proven experience of regulation.
- Significant casework experience, dealing with complex cases.
- Experience of providing legal advice to senior or executive members of the organisation.
- Must be resilient, adaptable and able to meet tight and conflicting deadlines when dealing with a high number of cases.
- Experience of working in a high profile organisation, and providing client focused advice.
- Experience of people management where you support your team whilst utilising your coaching skills.

**Why work for the NMC?**

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We aim to recruit the right people in the right places and we value the contribution they make to the success of our organisation. In return, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. To findout further information, please look at our benefits page.

**To apply**

For more information about the role please read the job description and the person specification.