NMC Test - Associate Director - Fitness to Practice

NMC Test - Associate Director - Fitness to Practice

Department: Production

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Brooklyn Studio

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking for a new challenge in a strategic capacity, driving change in the way we regulate across the four countries of the United Kingdom. The role will help the organisation to break new ground in the delivery of modern regulation, with focus on our Fitness to Practise (FtP) process.

You will work with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders in establishing new processes, policies, and governance arrangements to ensure that operational teams are well equipped to carry out their functions. You will be a key member of the leadership team responsible for delivering our core regulatory functions which include registration, revalidation, and Fitness to Practise. A key priority for the organisation is the recovery of our caseload post pandemic, and this role sits at the head of this effort.

The role holder must demonstrate the organisation’s values and behaviours, acting as a senior role model for staff and delivering cultural change that puts people at the centre of the work we do.

Key responsibilities of this role will be demonstrating leadership and management skills, taking the lead on corporate or cross-cutting programmes and projects to enable an effective fitness to practise function and implementation of our priorities.

You will ensure that the organisation’s values and behaviours are understood and demonstrated through clear, visible leadership and supported in your working practices. Encouraging colleagues, you will support innovation across operational teams and promote a culture of learning and improvement. Alongside this, you will be crucial in creating and delivering medium and long-term approaches to continuous development. This will be done through close collaboration with, and input from, colleagues from across the business.

You will be passionate about improving operational performance. You’ll need to be able to quickly understand what is working well and what we need to change and then be able to confidently lead the change that needs to happen through formal change programmes and support of more localised continuous improvement plans.

• To be successful in this role we are looking for a candidate with:
• A demonstrated ability to lead a team in a strategic, complex environment and to have identified and implemented changes to services to improve efficiency, performance, and innovative thinking.
• Proven ability to engage staff, encourage and promote a supportive, high-performance culture and environment.
• The ability to think critically and analytically. To draw sound conclusions based on complex data and convert raw data into useful information that can be used to influence action and change.
• The ability to foster effective and collaborative working relationships and influence colleagues across the directorate and wider NMC.

Strong people leadership skills:

• An inspirational leader with a flair for engaging people and making the complex simple and compelling.
• Provide visible, positive, and collaborative leadership within your direct team and the wider directorate.
• The ability to motivate, inspire and engage a large and diverse team and build a capable, inclusive, and high performing team.

• 30 days annual leave - plus eight days paid bank holidays
• Attractive pension scheme with a basic employer contribution of 8%
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff discounts via Perkbox
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Subsidised on-site restaurant in our head office based in London W1
• Season ticket loan
• Hybrid and flexible working
• 24-hour regulated employee assistance programme

Please note, if we receive a high level of applications, we may choose to close this advert early. We encourage you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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