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Salary: £64,295 - £75,64 per annum
Location: Birmingham - 2 days in the office / Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time
The General Dental Council (GDC) is the statutory body responsible for regulating dental professionals in the UK.
An opportunity to use your regulatory expertise, leadership and management skills to play a pivotal role in protecting patient safety and maintaining public confidence in dental services.
As Head of Case Examiners, reporting to the Associate Director, Fitness to Practise (FtP), you will lead and manage our highly experienced team of Case Examiners, whilst always ensuring the independence of their FtP case decisions. You will ensure appropriate support, performance and quality assurance systems are in place which enable independent, fair, robust, and timely decision-making across the team. You will also lead the FtP input into regulatory reform as it applies to the Case Examiner function.
Your Key Responsibilities Will Include
* Providing strong leadership, strategic direction, and performance management across the team, ensuring the team works towards the corporate vision.
* The delivery of high-quality and effective decision-making by Case Examiners, while ensuring the independence of their decision-making.
* Reporting delivery against performance targets and undertaking regular quality reviews.
* Ensuring the Case Examiners are kept up to date with process and policy developments within FtP and facilitating feedback on the same.
About You
You will offer a depth of knowledge and experience within FtP, gained within regulators or regulatory agencies. Please see the attached job description for the full personal specification for this role. As part of your application supporting statement, we would like you to expand on your experience of the below:
* The ideal candidate will be a qualified and practising solicitor or barrister or ILEX qualified (desirable) with experience of working within a statutory, regulatory or similar framework, in one or more of the following areas: regulatory, public, information, commercial, litigation or criminal law.
* Knowledge of audit and FtP/regulatory processes, preferably gained within an administrative/casework/regulatory environment.
* Demonstrable experience of setting, monitoring, and delivering against challenging targets and budgets, and in particular a track record of creating and using performance management information to consistently raise performance and productivity of teams.
* Proven track record in identifying, managing and escalating risk as appropriate, within established organisational risk frameworks.
About Us
Our primary purpose is to protect patient safety and maintain public confidence in dental services. To achieve this, we register qualified dental professionals, set standards for the dental team, investigate concerns about dental professionals' fitness to practise, and work to ensure the quality of dental education.
Our work matters and so do our people. We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion by recruiting and strengthening our teams with team members from different backgrounds, life experiences and viewpoints. Equality and diversity are not just words, they are what makes our teams strong and able to deliver. We want to be champions of diversity and to have a sense of belonging in the workplace, where everybody has the chance to contribute and to share what is important to them.
Benefits
The GDC is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, that provides an environment that reflects our values and culture and allows employees to flourish.
To support this, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, including flexible working arrangements from day one and employee networks that aid growth and development.
Some Of Our Benefits Include
* 27 days holiday (plus statutory) - rising to 30 days after 2 years' service
* Flexi-time scheme
* Employer pension contributions up to 10%
* Buy/Sell annual leave
* Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave from 1 years' service.
* Life assurance, income protection plan and enhanced sick leave policy
* Staff discounts including eye care contributions and discounted gym membership
We encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and career development of people from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.
How To Apply
For further details about the role and to apply please click the apply button.
In your supporting statement, please expand on your experience from the person specification details given above.
Closing date: 23:59 on Sunday 22 June 2025
Please note that we reserve the right to bring this recruitment campaign to an end without notice, and we encourage all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.
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