The Nursing and Midwifery Council
The Nursing and Midwifery Council
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is an independent healthcare regulator and non-profit organisation responsible for setting professional standards for nurses, midwives, and nursing associates. Its work supports safe, effective, and compassionate care by overseeing the professional practice of more than 808,000 registered healthcare professionals. As an employer, the Council brings together teams working across regulation, professional standards, policy, education, and organisational support to strengthen public confidence in nursing and midwifery.

Head of Legal Services Transformation

Lead the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s legal services transformation, shaping its future operating model and strengthening legal capability. Partner with senior leaders to guide governance, organisational change and lasting adoption.

Description

  • Lead the design and delivery of the NMC’s future legal services operating model.
  • Partner with the General Counsel, senior legal leaders, People and Culture, and teams across the organisation.
  • Transform legal services structures, processes, capabilities and ways of working.
  • Develop evidence-led options and design principles, strengthen governance, identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and inform senior decisions.
  • Guide people through change by creating engagement and change approaches that support lasting adoption.
  • Connect perspectives across organisational boundaries and build partnerships for sustained impact.
  • Work with the General Counsel, as Head of Profession, to build legal capability, continuing professional development and knowledge management.
  • Advise senior leaders and collaborate with the Legal Services Steering Group.
  • Help develop a resilient, innovative and continually learning legal profession prepared for the future.

Requirements

  • Bring extensive senior management experience leading large-scale transformation and delivering outcomes in challenging settings.
  • Show a record of designing and implementing evidence-based change, drawing on insight and expertise to help people adopt new ways of working.
  • Have strong knowledge of legal and regulatory processes.
  • Hold a current practising certificate as a solicitor or barrister.
  • Use sound judgement to weigh competing priorities, risks and perspectives and make clear, evidence-based decisions.
  • Build strong relationships, unite people around shared goals, listen to varied perspectives and reach constructive outcomes.
  • Pair strategic vision with a practical focus on delivery.
  • Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement, learning, innovation and inclusive ways of working.
  • Complete pre-employment checks; DBS and additional vetting checks may be required in future.

Benefits

  • A flexible role that may involve moving between teams as workload requires.
  • Hybrid work, with two days a week in the office and the remainder from home.
  • Annual salary review.
  • Progressive pay approach.
  • Reasonable adjustments for disabled candidates throughout recruitment.
  • 30 days of annual leave.
  • Enhanced pension, with an 8% employer contribution that can rise to 14% alongside optional additional employee contributions.
  • Life insurance worth four times current salary.
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
  • 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Perkbox membership.
  • Subsidised restaurant at the Portland Place office.
  • Season ticket loans.

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