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Lawyer, NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL
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About The Team And What We Do
The Sensitive and Complex Casework Team is a specialist unit within the Fitness to Practise (FtP) directorate. Its purpose is to handle high-risk, high-profile, or legally complicated cases, providing specialised legal advice and direct investigative support to speed up decision-making and ensure consistency.
You'll be joining at an exciting time, where the team is currently expanding.
Your Role and Impact
As a Lawyer in the SCCT, you will be responsible for the effective management of a caseload of sensitive and complex cases across the fitness to practice process, ensuring that our cases are progressed in a proportionate, timely and risk-focused manner so that you can support the organisation to meet its statutory objectives of protecting the public and upholding confidence in the nursing and midwifery professions.
What You’ll Bring
- Advise on a range of issues including the identification of regulatory concerns, the identification and assessment of both case-specific and organisational risk, the scoping of investigations, evidence collation, and providing disclosable summaries for media briefings.
- Responsible for advising colleagues in respect of many of our wider legal obligations and the relevance and impact of case law.
- Collaborate and work with internal teams across the NMC on complex matters including information sharing, public inquiries, and inquests.
- A key point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders, often at a senior level, and able to provide updates at short notice in relation to the cases you are overseeing.
- Oversee your own Fitness to Practise workload and, from time to time and as appropriate, instruct external firms to conduct investigations and confidently provide instructions on all aspects of the investigation from the scope of enquiries to the proposed disposal, ensuring the investigations are progressed in a cost-effective, timely and proportionate manner.
- Supervise and develop more junior colleagues as well as taking an active role in identifying and implementing improvements to the way we work.
- A confident self-starter who is able to work autonomously, with relevant casework experience, knowledge, and skills.
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Please note that this role requires you to review and work with sensitive and distressing material relating to fitness to practice cases and you will be given the appropriate support to deal with this material.
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