About the Team The Registration and Revalidation team at the NMC is responsible for the processes that enable nurses, midwives, and nursing associates to join, remain on, and return to the UK register. The team plays a vital role in supporting public confidence in the professions we regulate by ensuring registration and revalidation processes are fair, effective, and aligned with our regulatory objectives. Your Role and Impact As Head of Legal Registration and Revalidation, you will lead the legal oversight of the NMC's registration function, ensuring that complex registration decisions, casework and regulatory processes are lawful, robust and aligned with our statutory responsibilities.
You will provide expert legal advice on registration matters, supporting the organisation to make fair, consistent and defensible decisions that protect the public and maintain confidence in the register. Working closely with colleagues across Registration, Education, Fitness to Practise and Policy, you will oversee the management of complex and high-risk registration cases, provide legal direction on emerging regulatory issues, and drive continuous improvement in decision-making frameworks, governance and operational processes.
While supporting the development of regulatory policy and legislative change where required, your primary focus will be ensuring the effective operation of registration processes and the delivery of high-quality legal advice that enables timely and proportionate regulatory decisions. What You'll Bring Significant experience providing legal advice within a regulatory, public sector or professional registration environment.
Strong expertise in statutory decision-making, regulatory processes, administrative law and risk management. Experience overseeing complex casework and advising on challenging or high-profile regulatory decisions. A track record of improving governance, operational processes and decision-making frameworks. Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
A commitment to public protection, fairness and evidence-based regulatory practice.
Job description provided by Nursing and Midwifery Council.
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