Location
Blackfriars, London (Hybrid working policy: full-time staff expected to attend the office three days a week during the first six months, with reasonable adjustments available)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£86,065 per annum

About the Role
As the Head of Legal, you will lead the Section 29 team responsible for scrutinising regulators’ fitness to practise decisions and processes. You will ensure that the review work is robust and consistently focused on protecting the public. This includes assessing cases that may present risks to public protection, managing appeals and external Counsel, and working with external solicitors.
You will use insights from scrutiny work to encourage improvements in fitness to practise across professional regulation by sharing good practice and highlighting emerging risks and themes externally.
In addition, you will collaborate across the organisation, providing expert advice on fitness to practise issues, consultation responses, and contributing to policy development including regulatory reform.
This is a fixed-term role covering maternity leave. We welcome applications from those interested in secondment opportunities and are open to discussing arrangements that support professional development.

Experience
- Qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate and rights to conduct litigation
- Knowledge of professional regulation, including fitness to practise procedures
- Strong strategic leadership experience, capable of providing stability and clear direction during organisational change

About you
- Driven, enthusiastic and self-directed individual
- Expertise in fitness to practise and understanding of issues relevant to health and care regulators
- Proven ability to lead an organisational function, providing effective leadership, strategic direction and line management through change
- Commitment to continuously improving the effectiveness, efficiency and quality of work
- Skilled in communication and relationship management with external stakeholders including regulators, external Counsel and solicitors
- Able to effectively report to and advise the Chief Executive, Senior Management Team and Board on the PSA’s Section 29 function
- Willingness to contribute to the wider work of the organisation, including as a member of the Senior Management Team and advising other teams on fitness to practise related matters

Qualifications
- Qualified lawyer with current practising certificate and rights to conduct litigation