Clinical Adviser

**About the team

** _This role is offered on an initial 24 month fixed term contract. Hours are negotiable between 21-36 hours per week.

_Note - due to interest we reserve the right to close this role early.

Join a specialist team at the heart of Professional Regulation, where clinical expertise helps shape fair, proportionate and informed decisions that ultimately support public safety.

Our Clinical Advice team brings together experienced nurses and midwives who understand the reality and complexity of clinical practice across a wide range of health and social care settings. We work alongside case officers, lawyers and decision makers, providing trusted clinical insight that helps ensure concerns about practice are properly understood, carefully assessed and dealt with fairly.

This is a team where your clinical knowledge reaches far beyond individual cases. You’ll have the opportunity to share patient safety insight, contribute to organisational learning, support colleagues’ development and help identify improvements to regulatory processes and policy.

Your role & impact

You don’t have to have experience of fitness to practice to join our team, we welcome professionals with all types of backgrounds and experiences.

We are looking for people on our nursing register, who have senior clinical leadership experience in practice, who will be an asset to the team and the service it provides.

We would particularly welcome applications from nurses who also have significant experience in the following specialities:

• Aesthetics clinical practice with the prescribing qualification
• Mental health (particularly significant experience in CAMHS)
• Acute paediatrics and neonatology (PICU/NICU)
• Acute adult settings such as A&E or ITU
• Health Visitor
• Social care

What you’ll bring

You’ll be a registered nurse with substantial clinical knowledge and the confidence to apply that expertise in a complex regulatory environment.

You’ll bring:

• Strong clinical judgement — able to interpret complex clinical evidence and distinguish significant concerns from issues that require a proportionate response.
• Excellent analytical skills — comfortable assessing information from multiple sources, identifying key issues and forming clear, evidence-based conclusions.
• Confidence and independence — able to provide robust clinical advice that can withstand scrutiny, including when working under pressure.
• Exceptional communication skills — able to translate complex clinical concepts into clear, concise advice for colleagues who may not have a clinical background.
• Current clinical knowledge — committed to keeping up to date with research, evidence and contemporary standards of practice.
• A contextual approach — able to recognise the human factors, organisational circumstances and wider clinical environment that influence practice.
• Collaboration and influence — skilled at building trusted relationships and working effectively with colleagues and stakeholders across an organisation.
• Resilience and self-awareness — able to work thoughtfully with complex and psychologically distressing material, while maintaining your own wellbeing and professional boundaries.
• A commitment to improvement — curious about emerging trends, patient safety and better ways of working, with the leadership skills to turn insight into positive change.

If you’re ready to use your clinical expertise in a different way — influencing important decisions, supporting public protection and helping shape better regulation — we’d love to hear from you.

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.

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.