About the Role
Join a specialist team at the heart of Professional Regulation, where clinical expertise helps shape fair, proportionate and informed decisions that ultimately support public safety. Our Clinical Advice team brings together experienced nurses and midwives who understand the reality and complexity of clinical practice across a wide range of health and social care settings. We work alongside case officers, lawyers and decision makers, providing trusted clinical insight that helps ensure concerns about practice are properly understood, carefully assessed and dealt with fairly. This is a team where your clinical knowledge reaches far beyond individual cases. You’ll have the opportunity to share patient safety insight, contribute to organisational learning, support colleagues’ development and help identify improvements to regulatory processes and policy.
Responsibilities
- Use professional expertise to make a meaningful difference to complex Fitness to Practise cases.
- Analyze detailed and sometimes challenging clinical information, bringing together evidence, contemporary research and understanding of real-world practice to provide clear, balanced and independent clinical advice.
- Help colleagues understand what happened, why it happened, the potential consequences, and whether practice fell below reasonable standards of care.
- Identify clinical, human and organisational factors, assess risk and seriousness, highlight where further expertise or safeguarding support is needed, and help cases progress effectively and proportionately.
- Share clinical intelligence and emerging trends.
- Contribute to quality assurance and clinical governance.
- Support training and induction.
- Improve processes.
- Help colleagues navigate sensitive and psychologically challenging work.
- Bring the voice of clinical practice into regulatory decision making.
- Ensure nursing and midwifery practice is understood in context and assessed with insight, fairness and rigour.
Requirements
- Registered nurse with substantial clinical knowledge.
- Confidence to apply clinical expertise in a complex regulatory environment.
- Ability to interpret complex clinical evidence and distinguish significant concerns from issues that require a proportionate response.
- Comfortable assessing information from multiple sources, identifying key issues and forming clear, evidence-based conclusions.
- Ability to provide robust clinical advice that can withstand scrutiny, including when working under pressure.
- Ability to translate complex clinical concepts into clear, concise advice for colleagues who may not have a clinical background.
- Commitment to keeping up to date with research, evidence and contemporary standards of practice.
- Ability to recognise the human factors, organisational circumstances and wider clinical environment that influence practice.
- Skilled at building trusted relationships and working effectively with colleagues and stakeholders across an organisation.
- Ability to work thoughtfully with complex and psychologically distressing material, while maintaining wellbeing and professional boundaries.
- Curiosity about emerging trends, patient safety and better ways of working.
- Leadership skills to turn insight into positive change.
- Ability to commit to working in an office location twice per week.
- Ability to pro-rata office attendance based on the number of days worked for part-time roles.
Skills
- Strong clinical judgement
- Excellent analytical skills
- Confidence and independence
- Exceptional communication skills
- Current clinical knowledge
- Contextual approach
- Collaboration and influence
- Resilience and self-awareness
- Commitment to improvement
Location
- London, Westfield Avenue
Work Type
- Fixed Term - Part Time
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Substantial clinical knowledge
Education Level
- Registered nurse
Salary/Compensations
- £52,241 - £62,416 / year
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave
- Enhanced Pension Contributions
- Life Insurance – 4 x current salary
- 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 the Company
- Join a specialist team at the heart of Professional Regulation, where clinical expertise helps shape fair, proportionate and informed decisions that ultimately support public safety.
- Our Clinical Advice team brings together experienced nurses and midwives who understand the reality and complexity of clinical practice across a wide range of health and social care settings.
- We work alongside case officers, lawyers and decision makers, providing trusted clinical insight that helps ensure concerns about practice are properly understood, carefully assessed and dealt with fairly.
- This is a team where your clinical knowledge reaches far beyond individual cases.
- You’ll have the opportunity to share patient safety insight, contribute to organisational learning, support colleagues’ development and help identify improvements to regulatory processes and policy.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
