Senior Investigator
Senior Investigator
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 and what we do
The Registration Investigations Team (RIT) was formed by merging the Incorrect and Fraudulent Entry Team (IE/FE) and the Registrar and Appeals Support Team (RAST) into one. RIT is responsible for managing and investigating all registration related concerns involving applications to join or rejoin the register, registration renewals, and the misuse of protected titles
You’ll have responsibility for investigating, and reporting on, regulatory concerns raised about nurses and midwives. In your role you will gather and analyse information in order to assess whether a nurse or midwife is safe to practise and if they pose any risk to patients in their care.
Your role and impact
Your role and impact
Your investigation case holding will consist of complex and high profile investigations. You will provide mentoring and coaching to Investigators. You will also provide managerial support and cover when necessary.
This is an important role in helping the NMC ensure it fulfils its statutory obligation to protect the public and in maintaining the integrity of our register of nurses, midwives and nursing associates.
What you’ll bring
- Experience of conducting, leading and managing a complex case holding and competing priorities.
- Demonstrable investigative experience, ideally but not necessarily in a regulatory setting.
- Well-developed analytical skills, the ability to identify and understand complex concepts quickly. The ability to understand the relevance and importance of key documents.
- Excellent drafting and written communications skills, with the ability to accurately reflect and summarise accounts.
- Experience in a regulatory body or similar organisation.
- Experience of supervising a team to deliver investigations to defined procedures, challenging targets and high quality standards
- To be able to demonstrate empathy and have good active listening skills.
Salary Details
London -£44,065 - £48,961
London -
£40,982 - £46,446
Edinburgh -
Edinburgh -
In the Personal Summary box on the application form, please provide a written statement addressing the following:
How to Apply
How to Apply
- Please provide examples of conducting and managing complex investigative caseloads, ideally within a regulatory, compliance or similar environment.
- Describe your experience of guiding others to deliver high‑quality investigations to defined procedures, demanding targets, and consistently high standards.
- Please provide examples of working in a regulatory body or comparable organisation, or relevant vocational experience involving structured processes, evidence handling, and decision‑making frameworks.
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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