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The role

Are you looking for a role where you can apply your legal skills to really make a difference and help to protect the public?

Would you like to become a specialist in the fascinating and evolving area of professional regulatory law, working on cases with real purpose and which are uniquely varied and sometimes high-profile?

If so, you may be interested in becoming an essential part of our large but close-knit, in-house legal team of 165 solicitors, paralegals, support staff and leaders

Paralegals play a leading role in working directly with solicitors to investigate, progress and prepare cases that may be referred to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal service (MPTS).

Our Paralegals work across a range of responsibilities, including:

• taking witness statements and providing witness care
• obtaining expert reports
• drafting allegations
• instructing counsel
• liaising with doctors and their representatives.

The person

Our teams pride themselves on an unwavering attention to detail, professionalism, and compassion towards all involved in fitness to practise.

A willingness to travel throughout the UK to take witness statements on occasion will be essential.

You can find more detail on the tasks you will undertake, and the essential skills required for the role, in the job description.

The benefits

As a member of our in-house legal team, there’ll be plenty of opportunities to develop your skills and career, including:

• Home working - Staff are in the office one day every fortnight on a set team schedule, with additional in-office days as required.
• Working hours are 35 hours per week.
• taking conduct of your own caseload of cases due for tribunal review, and litigation matters, including supporting counsel in representing us at hearings
• having full ownership of obtaining high quality key evidence including witness statements and expert reports
• working closely with and learning from experienced solicitors
• becoming involved in other areas of work, such as litigation costs recovery, public inquiries, and coroner’s inquests.
• accessing a wide range of learning and development online resources and in-person training events, as well as frequent Legal Team CPD events delivered by both internal and external speakers.
• contributing to project and continuous improvement activity.

If your career aspiration is to qualify as a solicitor, some of our paralegal roles constitute qualifying work experience for the SQE and we can offer you up to 5 days study leave per year to assist you with your studies and exams. When we have the need to recruit newly qualified solicitors, we aim to recruit internally from amongst those who qualify as solicitors whilst working for us.

The GMC helps to protect patients and improve medical education and practice in the UK by setting standards for students and doctors. We support them in achieving (and exceeding) those standards and act when they are not met.

You’ll benefit from being part of an organisation that is genuinely committed to its people with several excellent benefits including:

• 30 days holiday with the option to buy and sell more
• A generous employer pension contribution of 15%
• Access to a range of learning and development opportunities designed to support your ongoing progression
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Attractive salary that’s reviewed annually
• Private medical insurance
• Bike lockers and shower facilities

To find out more please click here.

How to apply for the role

You will need provide your reason for application & how you meet the essential skills of the role.

We will assess the information you provide against the skills required for the role and let you know whether you will progress to the next stage of the recruitment process.

Diversity and inclusive

The GMC values diversity and has made a public commitment to processes and procedures that are fair, objective, transparent and free from discrimination. We are also committed to the Disability Confident employer scheme and support the requirements of the Disability Confident interview scheme. If you have a disability and meet the cut-off mark for the essential criteria for this role as outlined in the person specification document, you will be offered an interview.

The GMC is a charity registered in England and Wales (1089278) and Scotland (SC037750)