Legal Review and Operations Officer

We are looking to recruit a Legal Review and Operations Officer to join our Section 29 team within the Regulation and Accreditation Directorate on a 12-month fixed term contract. We are open to this role being a secondment from another organisation. The team is responsible for reviewing final fitness to practise panel decisions of the 10 health and social care regulators we oversee, and where we decide that the decisions do not protect the public, we can bring an appeal to Court under Section 29 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002. We also share learning and feedback from our scrutiny of panel decisions with the regulators with the aim to help improve regulation and decision making, and these are taken into account by our Performance Review team in their regular assessments of a regulator's performance. You can find out more about our work here. The role involves:

• To review and analyse cases under the PSA's section 29 process, making decisions on the PSA's action. To identify (and draft) learning points to be fed back to the regulators.
• Line managing Legal Administrator
• Ensuring the efficient coordination and operation of the work of the team, particularly its section 29 process and monitoring of cases at different stages. You will carry out case management and administration tasks, where required.
• To collate and carry out analysis of information about the team's work, case data and appeals for internal and external stakeholders.
We currently operate a hybrid policy. In the first six months of employment full-time staff working over five days will be expected to attend the office three days a week, after this the requirement is two days a week in the office. However, should you require any reasonable adjustments or wish to discuss the possibility of further flexible working please contact us directly to discuss., We are the UK's oversight body for the regulation of people working in health and social care. There are 10 organisations that regulate health professionals in the UK and social workers in England by law. We audit their performance and review their decisions on practitioners' fitness to practise. We also accredit and set standards for organisations holding registers of health and care practitioners not regulated by law. We share good practice, knowledge and our right-touch regulation expertise. We monitor policy developments in the UK and internationally, providing guidance to governments and stakeholders.

We are looking to recruit a Legal Review and Operations Officer who has:
• Strong analytical skills and excellent attention to detail
• Good drafting and communication skills including the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively and simply
• Strong coordination/operational skills
• An understanding of statistics and the production of statistical data, is numerate, and has an ability to work comfortably with figures and statistics
• A good understanding of fitness to practise legislation and processes of the regulatory bodies the PSA oversees.
You will need and a strong commitment to protecting patients and the public. You will also need to share our values of integrity, transparency, respect, fairness and teamwork.