Head of Legal Registrations and Revalidation in London

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.

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave.
• Enhanced Pension Contributions via our attractive Pension Scheme – with a basic 8% employer contribution as standard which increases up to 14% with optional added Employee Contributions.
• Life Insurance – 4 x current salary.
• Hybrid/Flexible working policies.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave.
• 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Perkbox membership.
• Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office.
• Season ticket loans.

About Us

Our core role is to regulate. First, we promote high education and professional standards for nurses and midwives across the UK, and nursing associates in England. Second, we maintain the register of professionals eligible to practise. Third, we investigate concerns about nurses, midwives and nursing associates - something that affects a tiny minority of professionals each year. We believe in giving professionals the chance to address concerns, but we’ll always take action when needed.

To regulate well, we support our professions and the public. We create resources and guidance that are useful throughout people’s careers, helping them to deliver our standards in practice and address new challenges. We also support people involved in our investigations, and we’re increasing our visibility so people feel engaged and empowered to shape our work.

Regulating and supporting our professions allows us to influence health and social care. We share intelligence from our regulatory activities and work with our partners to support workforce planning and sector-wide decision making. We use our voice to speak up for a healthy and inclusive working environment for our professions.

Additional Information

Successful candidates will be appointed to a particular NMC Office, but you may be required to travel to other NMC locations, that are reasonable daily commute from your home office.

Hybrid Working Policy: We are currently working to a policy of office attendance for two days per week with the rest of the time working from home. Before submitting your application, please ensure you are able to commit to working in one of our office locations twice per week. If you are applying for a part-time role, please pro-rata office attendance based on the number of days you would be working.

Our Pay Policy: It is expected that staff new to the NMC will ordinarily be appointed to the bottom of the relevant pay band. However, in exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a salary above the bottom of the relevant pay band but we may request proof of current earnings. Please note that we offer an annual review of salaries and adopt a generous progressive pay approach. Further details of which are available on request.

For our internal colleagues, you will be paid in accordance to our internal pay policy.

Reasonable adjustments: We will provide reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any additional support to enable you to make an application with us.

Screening and vetting: All of our roles are subject to pre-employment checks. We are in the process of introducing a vetting policy, and it is possible that this role may become subject to DBS and further vetting checks in future.