Clinical Adviser
Clinical Adviser
Our vision is for safe and effective nursing and midwifery practice across the four countries of the UK – regulated and supported by the NMC – a fit for the future organisation, with fairness and equity at the heart of everything we do.
Our role is to protect the public and maintain confidence in the nursing and midwifery professions. As the largest independent regulator in Europe of more than 860,000 nursing and midwifery professionals, we have a crucial role in making this a reality.
We do this by setting and promoting high education and professional standards for all future and registered nurses and midwives in the UK and nursing associates in England.
We also ensure every nurse, midwife and nursing associate on our Register meets clear standards of conduct and practice which protects the public and the reputation of our professions.
We have a duty to investigate concerns and to take steps to protect the public in the relatively rare instances where we need to limit or restrict a nurse, midwife or nursing associate’s right to practise.
We are building a new NMC with integrity, fairness, respect, equity and effectiveness at its core.
We are determined to improve and modernise our culture and ways of working. This will ensure that the public and professionals feel confident in our work.
About the Team
The clinical advice team is a small team of nurses and midwives working within Professional Regulation. Clinical advice can, in many cases, be very useful in helping us make fair, well-informed decisions. Clinical advice is aimed at assisting the decision-maker to understand the nature of the concern raised. The clinical advisor may suggest preliminary enquiries, either with the person raising the concern or others, for example employers.
You don’t have to have experience of fitness to practise to join our team, we welcome professionals with all types of backgrounds and experiences. We are looking for people on our register, who have senior leadership experience in clinical practice who will be an asset to the clinical advice team, and the service it provides.
Your role and impact
Your role and impact
We would welcome applications from Midwives with significant and recent experience in acute midwifery settings.
We are looking to recruit clinical advisers to work in our Professional Regulation Directorate, supporting our assessment and consideration of fitness to practise cases. You will be responsible for:
- Providing comprehensive, best practice advice on clinical, management and leadership matters subject to fitness to practise consideration to aid understanding of the concern raised
- Informing assessment of the seriousness of the concern raised with reference to evidence-based practice, and suggest areas where the person raising the concern should be asked to provide further clarification
- Delivering education and training to colleagues to enhance understanding of the work of nursing and midwifery professionals; NHS structures; policies and procedures that govern practice for those on our register
These roles are vital to our work in the directorate, bringing necessary clinical and management/leadership insight to our assessment of fitness to practise cases. The role will give you the chance to use your valuable experience in a regulatory setting, where public protection and the maintenance of standards is central to the work that we do.
Why choose this role?
Why choose this role?
You may be thinking of other ways to use your skills and experience and this role is a great opportunity to do just that.
What you'll bring
You will be an experienced Midwife with a commitment to clinical excellence and demonstrable experience within your professional setting. With substantial, recent post registration senior experience, you will have a proven record and passion for delivering safe, quality care to patients.
It will be a condition of employment that you maintain your NMC registration.
You will:
- Hold current NMC registration
- Hold a current RM qualification
- Experience of managing clinical and managerial investigations
- Be enthusiastic and motivated, with the flexibility to adapt to the challenges of a fast-paced environment
- Be an independent thinker, with excellent interpersonal skills, which inspire confidence in you
- Be a confident and clear communicator, able to influence colleagues
- Be able to understand and analyse complex and voluminous material to identify the key issues and present these clearly and concisely, with reference to the NMC Code
Salary Details
London - £56,174 - £62,416
Edinburgh - £52,241 0 £58,046
This is fixed term position approximately for 12 months.
Salary Details
London - £56,174 - £62,416
Edinburgh - £52,241 0 £58,046
This is fixed term position approximately for 12 months.
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.
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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