Professional Liaison Consultant (Scotland)

We are looking for a confident individual with strong stakeholder engagement experience who is passionate about public protection.

This role provides an opportunity to be at the heart of our increasing focus on promoting professionalism and preventing and reducing harm. You will need sound knowledge of healthcare regulation and be willing to frequently travel to locations across the UK. The Professional Liaison Consultant for Scotland role will sit within our Professionalism and Upstream Regulation department. Through increased engagement that educates, influences and empowers employers, registrants and other stakeholders, we aim to support the creation of working environments and practices that enable our registrants to embed and achieve high professional standards.

Your role as a Professional Liaison Consultant will include:

• Being an ambassador of the HCPC.
• Representing the HCPC at a range of external events.
• Delivering key messages and learning for our stakeholders.
• Designing and delivering a range of learning events and materials that will educate, influence and empower different stakeholders, promote professionalism and help to embed Standards and prevent harm.
• Building strong relationships and collaborating with stakeholders across Scotland.
• Delivering face-to-face and online events across the UK.

What we are looking for:

• A confident individual.
• Self-motivated and able to work autonomously.
• Able to build relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills.
• Knowledge of healthcare regulation to educate and influence stakeholders through a number of channels.
• A flexible, creative approach to the development and delivery of events.
• The ability to create sessions which are topical and engaging through the use of well-informed data and research.
• Competence in using a variety of learning and presentation tools to create and deliver sessions, as well as proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to adapt and problem solve where necessary and plan and organise effectively.

What we offer:

• You will work from home and undertake significant travel across Scotland and the UK.
• A car allowance of £1,800 per annum is payable monthly for those who use their car extensively for HCPC business.
• We support agile and flexible ways of working and although this is a full-time role, we are able to consider flexible and part-time working arrangements.

Application information: Please submit a supporting statement along with your CV. Applications without a supporting statement will not be reviewed. All candidates must have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Before starting employment, we will conduct thorough checks on original documentation to verify your right to work status. Please note that the HCPC does not offer a sponsorship scheme and is therefore unable to sponsor visa applications.

Location: The post will be based in Scotland and involve travelling across the UK.

Closing Date: 16th January (All vacancies will close at 1pm).

Interview Date: w/c 2nd February. Please note that the interviews will involve an assessment element. Further details will be provided following the interview invite.

HCPC's vision is to be recognised as an actively anti-discriminatory organisation that upholds and promotes best practice in equality, diversity and inclusion and an active ally for change. We are a Disability Confident employer and aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the HCPC. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to ensure the recruitment process is inclusive and barrier-free and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to have a confidential discussion on how we can support you, please contact us.

Our values underpin what we do and how we do it, to help us operate to high standards and effectively as a regulator and employer. In addition to the core competencies for this role, we will also assess you against our values during the selection process.