Regulatory Competence & Standards Lead

As a Competence and Professional Standards Partner, you will be the organisational expert for workforce competence, behaviours and capability, aligned to our corporate strategies, values and current and emerging legislative, regulatory and professional requirements. You will play a critical role in shaping how the organisation understands and applies competence requirements across roles and functions, providing clarity on accountability now and in the future. You will translate complex external standards into clear, practical guidance that supports organisational design, workforce planning, learning pathways and talent decisions. Working collaboratively with HR Business Partners, People Development, Talent Acquisition and senior leaders, the Competence and Professional Standards Partner helps ensure statutory and regulatory competence requirements are consistently embedded, understood and sustained, supporting safe, effective and compliant service delivery.

How you’ll do it:

• Act as the organisation’s trusted specialist on competence, conduct and behavioural expectations arising from regulation, legislation and professional standards.
• Provide assurance and insight on current and future competence risks, identifying priority areas, critical roles and actions to reduce exposure.
• Apply a competence perspective to workforce and succession planning to ensure future capability reflects emerging regulatory and legislative expectations.
• Design, maintain and govern frameworks, guidance and tools that define and support consistent understanding of competence and accountability.
• Use data, insight, research and external intelligence to identify trends, risks and opportunities, influencing evidence‑based decision making.
• Work in partnership with HR Business Partners to embed competence and regulatory requirements into role design, organisational change and people practices.
• Collaborate with People Development to inform learning strategies and development pathways linked to competence requirements.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to ensure attraction, assessment and selection approaches reflect regulatory expectations and role accountability.
• Ensure that you follow and keep up to date with all relevant NHG and statutory policies and related procedures including health and safety and financial regulations.

The ideal candidate:

• Significant experience working in a complex, regulated environment with responsibility for competence, conduct or professional standards.
• Strong understanding of how legislation and regulation translate into workforce capability, behaviours and accountability.
• Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders and HR professionals to influence people strategies and workforce decisions.
• Strong working knowledge of legislation and regulations impacting one or more regulated domains (e.g. housing management, construction, building safety, finance), with the ability to apply learning across different regulatory contexts.
• Experience developing organisation‑wide frameworks related to competence, conduct and professional development.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify competence risk and provide insight to inform decision making.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex regulatory and professional requirements into clear, practical guidance.
• High level of IT competence, including experience using MS Office, HR systems, learning management systems and data or reporting tools such as Power BI.
• Experience designing assessment, selection or assurance approaches related to competence.
• Experience designing or commissioning learning and development initiatives related to competence.

What’s in it for you?

Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential. Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply).
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply).
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan.
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary.

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.