About Us
At the NMC, we’re committed to delivering excellence by living our values and behaviours every day. We foster a workplace built on these, ensuring every team member thrives and contributes to our purpose.
This role is aligned with our behaviour framework, and we’ll assess you on four of these— Impactful decision making, Communicating with impact, achieving results and Compassionate and person- centered—in addition to your technical skills and experience. Please read the person specification in the job description for further details of exactly what we’ll be assessing you on.
About the Team and what we do
The Case Preparation and Presentation (CPP) team is a multidisciplinary team mainly responsible for preparing and presenting “case to answer” cases referred to the Fitness to Practise Committee for fair and timely conclusions.
About the role
The NMC’s largest team of lawyers and paralegals prides itself on its collegiate and supportive environment. Lawyers are supported by a head and senior lawyers who provide technical supervision and support with professional development.
Our lawyers review and prepare fitness to practise cases for our practice committees as well as preparing applications to be heard in the High Court.
This role has a focus on advocacy and involves presenting hearings regularly before the NMC’s practice committees. Our hearings range from straightforward to complex and are heard both virtually and at our hearing centres in London and Edinburgh. Lawyers with the relevant rights of audience can also expect to appear regularly in the County Court and High Court or Court of Session.
About You
You will be a lawyer who may already have experience of regulatory law (but if not, you should demonstrate an interest in this area) and who will be committed to helping us to deliver high quality adjudication outcomes for registrants referred to the NMC in a person-centred way. You will be an excellent communicator, whether that be in oral, written or presentation form. You will also have a high level of attention to detail and will have the ability to quality assure your own work with minimal supervision.
Skills and experience required
* Holder of a UK Practising Certificate as UK Qualified Solicitor or Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive
* Experience of advocacy
* Proven experience of providing consistently accurate and appropriate legal advice while meeting tight deadlines
* Experience of autonomous decision making while dealing with high profile, sensitive issues
* Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
* Collaborative working with other internal teams
* Excellent organisational skills and ability to work on a range of different matters and cases simultaneously
* Good IT skills
* Person-centred approach to daily work, including showing respect to all, listening and sensitively managing individuals with additional needs
* Strong commitment to and understanding of the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion within the environment that the NMC operates
* High level of personal integrity, professionalism and confidentiality
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.
There is a fixed-term, part-time role available, as well as permanent, full-time positions.