Legal Professional Services Senior Lawyer

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.

This role is offered on an initial 18 month contract

Join our Transformation and Technology Services team – a specialist team helping to transform how the NMC delivers its regulatory work.

We’re a centre of excellence bringing together expertise in process management, legal and operational capability, quality assurance, continuous improvement and change. We work across the organisation, combining big-picture thinking with hands‑on problem solving to improve the quality, timeliness and experience of regulatory processes.

You’ll be joining at an exciting time as we develop a modern, high-performing legal profession and establish our One Legal Profession approach. This is an opportunity to help shape how legal professionals learn, share knowledge, develop their careers and deliver consistently high-quality legal services.

Please view the statement on our careers page which details how this role supports the vision of the future of Legal Services at the NMC. You'll find this next to the job description section.

As Legal Professional Services Senior Lawyer, you’ll play a leading role in building the professional foundations of the NMC’s future legal service.

Working closely with the General Counsel as Head of Legal Profession, senior legal leaders and colleagues across the organisation, you’ll help deliver the Legal Services Transformation Programme and establish a consistent, sustainable approach to professional development, knowledge management and support for our legal community.

You’ll lead the design and implementation of legal learning and development programmes, professional standards, induction arrangements and knowledge‑sharing frameworks. Your work will help strengthen legal and regulatory expertise, improve consistency in legal advice and support high-quality decision-making across the profession.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape the NMC Legal Capability Framework and associated development pathways, helping lawyers, paralegals and aspiring legal professionals understand what great looks like – and how they can develop and progress.

You’ll also lead work to capture and share the knowledge that makes a great legal profession stronger. From casework, appeals and developments in case law to precedents, guidance and lessons learned, you’ll create practical ways for insight to be shared and embedded into everyday practice.

And you’ll be…