The Nursing and Midwifery Council
Clinical Adviser
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Clinical Adviser
Application Deadline: 30 August 2026
Department: Clinical Advice
Employment Type: Fixed Term - Part Time
Location: London, Westfield Avenue
Reporting To: Jennifer Ann O'Sullivan
Compensation: £52,241 - £62,416 / year
Description
About the team
This role is offered on an initial 24 month fixed term contract. Hours are negotiable between 15-36 hours per week.
Note - due to interest we reserve the right to close this role early.
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.
Your role & impact
As a Clinical Adviser, you’ll use your professional expertise to make a meaningful difference to complex Fitness to Practise cases.
You’ll analyse detailed and sometimes challenging clinical information, bringing together evidence, contemporary research and your understanding of real-world practice to provide clear, balanced and independent clinical advice. You’ll help colleagues understand what happened, why it happened, the potential consequences, and whether practice fell below reasonable standards of care.
Your advice will help shape decisions that need to stand up to scrutiny. You’ll 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.
You’ll also play an important role beyond individual cases — sharing clinical intelligence and emerging trends, contributing to quality assurance and clinical governance, supporting training and induction, improving processes and helping colleagues navigate sensitive and psychologically challenging work.
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In short, you’ll bring the voice of clinical practice into regulatory decision making — helping ensure that nursing and midwifery practice is understood in context and assessed with insight, fairness and rigour.
What you’ll bring
You’ll be a registered nurse with substantial clinical knowledge and the confidence to apply that expertise in a complex regulatory environment.
You’ll bring:
- Strong clinical judgement — able to interpret complex clinical evidence and distinguish significant concerns from issues that require a proportionate response.
- Excellent analytical skills — comfortable assessing information from multiple sources, identifying key issues and forming clear, evidence-based conclusions.
- Confidence and independence — able to provide robust clinical advice that can withstand scrutiny, including when working under pressure.
- Exceptional communication skills — able to translate complex clinical concepts into clear, concise advice for colleagues who may not have a clinical background.
- Current clinical knowledge — committed to keeping up to date with research, evidence and contemporary standards of practice.
- A contextual approach — able to recognise the human factors, organisational circumstances and wider clinical environment that influence practice.
- Collaboration and influence — skilled at building trusted relationships and working effectively with colleagues and stakeholders across an organisation.
- Resilience and self-awareness — able to work thoughtfully with complex and psychologically distressing material, while maintaining your own wellbeing and professional boundaries.
- A commitment to improvement — curious about emerging trends, patient safety and better ways of working, with the leadership skills to turn insight into positive change.
If you’re ready to use your clinical expertise in a different way — influencing important decisions, supporting public protection and helping shape better regulation — we’d love to hear from you.
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 working
- 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
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Additional Information
The role you are applying for is a flexible role, and whilst you will be posted initially to a team, this may require movement between teams as the flow of work dictates. You will of course understand that this flexible approach enables us to provide the best possible service to our registrants and reach the outcomes to our cases quickly and within a reasonable timeframe. This will not change your terms and conditions and will be discussed with you prior to you taking up the post.
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.
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