Hearing coordinator

The Nursing and Midwifery Council; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 30 days

Pension scheme 8-14%

Life insurance 4x salary

Hybrid/flexible working

Maternity / Paternity pay

EAP 24 hours

Cycle to work

Perkbox

Restaurant subsidy

Season ticket loan

Job summary

The Nursing and Midwifery Council in Edinburgh is seeking a Hearing Coordinator to join the Adjudication team. You will help organise, manage and deliver fitness to practise hearings for nurses, midwives and nursing associates, ensuring fairness, efficiency and compliance.

You will coordinate Chairs, panel members, legal advocates, registrants and witnesses, draft written outcomes, and operate in a public-facing, high-stakes environment rooted in integrity and respect.

Qualifications

• Experience with hearings, tribunals or regulatory processes is helpful, though not required.
• Demonstrates effective communication, collaboration, and results orientation.
• Familiarity with governance or legal environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate multiple participants (Chairs, panel members, advocates, registrants, witnesses) during hearings.
• Maintain hearing flow and draft the formal written outcome based on decisions.
• Communicate clearly in a public-facing, high-stakes setting.

Job description

Hearing coordinator

Application Deadline: 24 September 2026

Department: Adjudication

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Edinburgh

Compensation: £32,249 - £35,832 / year

Description

**Please note there is a number of fixed-term and permanent opportunities available**

About the team and we do

Hearing Coordinator are a part of the Adjudication team. The Adjudication team within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) plays a crucial, independent role in the final stages of the fitness to practise process, responsible for organising, managing, and delivering hearings where decisions are made about a nurse, midwife, or nursing associate's right to practise.

This team ensures that hearings are run efficiently, fairly, and in compliance with statutory frameworks, with the ultimate goal of protecting the public and maintaining confidence in the profession.

Your role and Impact

Hearings Coordinators play a pivotal role in protecting the public and supporting trust in healthcare. In this role, you’ll guide the smooth running of our Fitness to Practise hearings — ensuring that proceedings are fair, well-managed, and respectful for everyone taking part.

You’ll coordinate multiple participants (including Chairs, panel members, legal advocates, registrants, and witnesses), maintain the flow of the hearing, and draft the formal written outcome based on decisions made. The work is practical, public-facing and high-stakes; it demands clarity, composure and strong communication.

This role sits at the heart of our values: Integrity, Fairness, Respect, Equity and Effectiveness. These values guide how hearings are run, how decisions are communicated, and how we support those who appear before us.

What will you bring to the role

Previous experience in hearings, tribunals, regulation, governance or legal environments can be helpful, but it is not essential. If you can demonstrate the right behaviours which includes: communicating with impact, collaborating and including, achieving results and improving and adapting. Along with the other technical skills and experience listed in the person specification.

This is a dynamic public-facing role. Occasionally, hearings run beyond standard working hours to conclude safely and efficiently — we plan ahead as much as possible and support colleagues to maintain healthy balance.

Benefits

• 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/Flexible working policies
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Perkbox membership
• Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office
• Season ticket loans

About Us

Our core role is to regulate. First, we promote high education and professional standards for nurses and midwives across the UK, and nursing associates in England. Second, we maintain the register of professionals eligible to practise. Third, we investigate concerns about nurses, midwives and nursing associates - something that affects a tiny minority of professionals each year. We believe in giving professionals the chance to address concerns, but we’ll always take action when needed.

To regulate well, we support our professions and the public. We create resources and guidance that are useful throughout people’s careers, helping them to deliver our standards in practice and address new challenges. We also support people involved in our investigations, and we’re increasing our visibility so people feel engaged and empowered to shape our work.

Regulating and supporting our professions allows us to influence health and social care. We share intelligence from our regulatory activities and work with our partners to support workforce planning and sector-wide decision making. We use our voice to speak up for a healthy and inclusive working environment for our professions.

Check out our NMC LinkedIn page here for an insight into the NMC, our vacancies and the world of healthcare regulation.

Additional Information

Successful candidates will be appointed to a particular NMC Office, but you may be required to travel to other NMC locations, that are reasonable daily commute from your home office.

Hybrid Working Policy

We are currently working to a policy of office attendance for two days per week with the rest of the time working from home. Before submitting your application, please ensure you are able to commit to working in one of our office locations twice per week. If you are applying for a part-time role, please pro-rata office attendance based on the number of days you would be working.

Our Pay Policy

It is expected that staff new to the NMC will ordinarily be appointed to the bottom of the relevant pay band. However in exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a salary above the bottom of the relevant pay band but we may request proof of current earnings. Please note that we offer an annual review of salaries and adopt a generous progressive pay approach. Further details of which are available on request.

For our internal colleagues, you will be paid in accordance to our internal pay policy.

Reasonable adjustments

We will provide reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any additional support to enable you to make an application with us.

Screening and vetting

All of our roles are subject to pre-employment checks. We are in the process of introducing a vetting policy, and it is possible that this role may become subject to DBS and further vetting checks in future.