We recognise that paralegal roles can be of interest to a wide range of professionals with different career plans and goals. We’re a new and growing in-house legal team and we’re confident that the successful applicants will have an opportunity to build key skills necessary for a successful legal career.

This role could be for you if you’re looking for a supportive environment where you can gain experience to support your route to qualification as a lawyer.  For example, this role could be for you if you’re looking for a role that contributes to qualifying experience for CILEX or SQE.

About Us

The Health and Care Professions Council is a UK-wide regulator, committed to delivering high quality, efficient regulation in order to protect the public.  We regulate 15 professions, including paramedics, radiographers, occupational therapists, and biomedical scientists.

HCPC’s vision is to be a high performing, adaptable and caring regulator that ensures public protection through strong, evidence-based regulation. Our purpose is to promote excellence in the professions we regulate and champion high-quality care that the public can access safely and with confidence.

We have as one of our goals to build a resilient, healthy, capable and sustainable organisation and therefore, the HCPC is full of talented and committed people with a shared purpose of protecting the public. And while we’re all unique, we share something in common. It’s the values by which we live and work: Fair, Compassionate, Inclusive, Enterprising.

About the Fitness to Practise Department

The Department receives and investigates concerns about registrants’ fitness to practise (FtP) and protection of title offences and provides an adjudication function through the  HCPC Tribunal Service (HCPTS). We employ around 130 people, who are collectively responsible for the delivery of the HCPC’s FtP and adjudication work. We manage an open caseload of approximately 1,900 FtP cases.

FtP, in this context, describes the process we use to investigate concerns that are raised about our registrants’ conduct, competence, health or character.

About the role

This is an exciting time to join the new and growing fitness to practise legal team. You will be part of a new team we are establishing to conduct investigations into concerns where a registrant may have fraudulently or incorrectly gained entry onto our register (“FIE”).

Details about the scope of the role is included in the job description. But in summary, in your role, you will:

• Investigate allegations of fraudulent or incorrect entry to our register. You will proactively progress enquiries by obtaining evidence and preparing cases for hearings.
• Assess interim order (“IO”) risk and prepare IO applications, where necessary, with legal or operational management supervision.
• Ensure that you adopt a compassionate approach to the regulation of our professions by adapting your communication method and frequency and using a compassionate tone when communicating with parties to a case.

What we offer

Alongside our excellent employee benefits, we are committed to your ongoing learning and development to build your skills, experience, and career. You can find out more about our benefits on our website

Closing Date: 24 February 2025 (All vacancies will close at 1pm)

Interview Date: w/c 10 March 2025

Further information on this role is detailed in the job description and person specification (Click here).

If you’d like to speak about the role please contact recruitment@hcpc-uk.org.

HCPC’s vision is to be recognised as an actively anti-discriminatory organisation that upholds and promotes best practice in equality, diversity and inclusion and an active ally for change. We are a Disability Confident employer and aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the HCPC. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to ensure the recruitment process is inclusive and barrier-free and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to have a confidential discussion on how we can support you, please contact recruitment@hcpc-uk.org.

Our values underpin what we do and how we do it, to help us operate to high standards and effectively as a regulator and employer. In addition to the core competencies for this role, we will also assess you against our values during the selection process: Please refer to the HCPC Values and Behavioural Framework.

We reserve the right to close this advert prior to the advertised closing date in the event we receive high volumes of applications.