What you’ll bring

You must be a registered midwife with credible professional expertise and a current understanding of midwifery practice, professional standards and the UK health and care environment.

You will bring:

• Master’s-level qualification or equivalent relevant experience
• Strong understanding of professional regulation, public protection, safeguarding and risk assessment
• Ability to analyse and interrogate large volumes of complex information and identify meaningful patterns, risks and learning
• Excellent written skills, including the ability to produce clear, structured and concise reports grounded in evidence, legislation, policy and guidance
• The confidence to explain complex professional and regulatory issues with clarity, sensitivity and credibility
• Experience of providing professional advice, analysis or evaluation within a complex organisation or regulatory environment
• A strong record of building effective relationships and working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders
• The ability to work collaboratively, encourage open debate, challenge assumptions appropriately and reach shared outcomes.

Knowledge of UK regulatory legislation and the NMC’s legislation, rules and standards would be helpful. Experience of developing or evaluating policy, guidance, standards or regulatory tools—and of engaging government bodies, providers, education institutions, professional bodies or networks across the UK—would also be valuable. Experience as an expert witness would be welcome.

You do not need to arrive knowing every aspect of the NMC’s work. What matters is that you combine professional credibility and analytical curiosity with sound judgement, collaborative instincts and a clear commitment to fairness and public protection.

Why join us?

This role offers a distinctive opportunity to shape how the NMC understands and responds to intelligence about maternity services. Your work will help connect information that might otherwise remain separate, strengthen organisational learning and ensure that regulatory insight leads to practical improvements for women, babies, families, professionals and the public.

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.

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

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.