Lawyer - Sensitive and Complex Casework Team, NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

About The Team And What We Do

The Sensitive and Complex Casework Team is a specialist unit within the Fitness to Practise (FtP) directorate. Its purpose is to handle high-risk, high-profile, or legally complicated cases, providing specialised legal advice and direct investigative support to speed up decision-making and ensure consistency. You'll be joining at an exciting time, where the team is currently expanding. Your role and impact:

• Responsible for the effective management of a caseload of sensitive and complex cases across the fitness to practice process.
• Ensure cases are progressed in a proportionate, timely, and risk-focused manner to support the organization in meeting its statutory objectives of protecting the public and upholding confidence in the nursing and midwifery professions.

What You’ll Bring

• Advising on a range of issues including the identification of regulatory concerns, the identification and assessment of both case-specific and organizational risk, the scoping of investigations, evidence collation, and providing disclosable summaries for media briefings.
• Providing legal advice on wider organizational obligations and the relevance and impact of case law.
• Collaborating and working with internal teams across the NMC on complex matters such as information sharing, public inquiries, and inquests.
• Being a key point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders, often at a senior level, and providing updates at short notice in relation to the cases you are overseeing.
• Instructing external firms to conduct investigations and providing instructions on all aspects of the investigation from the scope of enquiries to the proposed disposal, ensuring investigations are progressed in a cost-effective, timely, and proportionate manner.
• Supervising and developing more junior colleagues and actively identifying and implementing improvements to the way we work.

Qualifications

• Relevant casework experience, knowledge, and skills.
• A confident self-starter who is able to work autonomously.

Salary Details

Edinburgh - £56,174-62,416
London - £58,022- £60,109

Please note that this role requires you to review and work with sensitive and distressing material relating to fitness to practice cases and you will be given the appropriate support to deal with this material. In the personal summary question on the application form, please provide a statement that clearly demonstrates how you meet the behaviors, experience, and skills outlined in the job specification.