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As Midwifery Policy Adviser, you’ll play a key role in ensuring that midwifery expertise informs decisions at the highest levels of the organisation. Your work will directly influence the standards and regulatory frameworks that guide midwifery practice and education, helping ensure the public receives safe and high-quality care.
Job Responsibility:
Provide authoritative professional advice to senior leaders, supporting strategies and initiatives that deliver the NMC’s vision and strengthen public protection
Contribute to the development, review and implementation of midwifery-related standards, regulatory policy and tools, ensuring they are evidence-informed, credible and relevant to practice
Help shape consultations, engagement activity and communications so that new and revised standards are co-produced with stakeholders and clearly understood across the professions
Build strong relationships with partners across the four UK countries — including governments, the NHS, non-NHS providers, educators, professional bodies and other regulators — acting as an ambassador for the NMC
Bring research, best practice and emerging professional issues into policy discussions, keeping our regulatory approach at the forefront of professional regulation
Requirements:
Registered midwife with strong professional credibility
Experience of the UK health and care system and a strong understanding of contemporary midwifery practice
Experience contributing to the development, review or implementation of professional standards, policy, guidance or regulatory tools
Ability to interpret research and complex professional issues to inform policy and regulatory decisions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to present advice and influence senior stakeholders
Collaborative approach, with experience building trusted relationships across organisations and professional groups
Commitment to inclusion, continuous improvement and using evidence to drive innovation in professional standards and regulatory practice
What we offer:
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