The Nursing and Midwifery Council
Head of Registration Testing, Fraud and Register Integrity
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Provides strategic leadership for registration testing, fraud prevention, assurance, and register integrity at the NMC. Oversees fraud and integrity risk assessment, investigations, intelligence-led controls, testing frameworks, policy development, and continuous improvement. Leads cross-functional collaboration with legal, data, intelligence, operational, and external partners to support robust regulatory decisions, public protection, and trust in the nursing and midwifery register.
About the team and what we do
The Registration and Revalidation team at the NMC is responsible for the processes that enable nurses, midwives, and nursing associates to join, remain on, and return to the UK register.
The Registration and Revalidation team plays a critical role in protecting the integrity of the register. Through assurance activity, fraud prevention, secure testing, risk-based controls, and continuous improvement, the team helps ensure that registration decisions are robust, proportionate, and support public protection.
The Registration and Revalidation team at the NMC is responsible for the processes that enable nurses, midwives, and nursing associates to join, remain on, and return to the UK register.
The Registration and Revalidation team plays a critical role in protecting the integrity of the register. Through assurance activity, fraud prevention, secure testing, risk-based controls, and continuous improvement, the team helps ensure that registration decisions are robust, proportionate, and support public protection.
Your Role and Impact
As Head of Registration Testing, Fraud and Register Integrity, you will provide strategic leadership for the development and delivery of robust testing, fraud prevention and register integrity frameworks across the NMC's Registration and Revalidation function. You will lead work that protects the integrity of the register, supports public protection and ensures the NMC remains responsive to emerging risks within professional registration processes.
Working closely with colleagues across Registration and Revalidation, Legal, Intelligence Sharing, Data Solutions and external partners, you will oversee the identification, assessment and management of fraud and integrity risks. You will ensure that testing, assurance and risk-based controls are effective, proportionate and evidence-based, enabling confident regulatory decision-making and safeguarding public trust in the professions we regulate.
You will lead strategic improvements to systems, processes and controls, using intelligence, data and insight to strengthen fraud prevention, detection and investigation activity. You will work closely with Intelligence Sharing colleagues to support coordinated intelligence sharing and responses to emerging fraud and register integrity risks. You will also champion and embed the NMC's Fraud Policy, contributing to its ongoing review and development to ensure the organisation's approach remains effective, proportionate and aligned with regulatory best practice.
As a member of the Registration and Revalidation senior leadership team, you will play a key role in shaping operational strategy, driving continuous improvement and ensuring that register integrity considerations are embedded across the function.
What You'll Bring
- Significant experience leading fraud, risk, integrity, assurance or regulatory compliance functions within a regulatory, public sector, professional registration or investigative environment.
- Strong knowledge of fraud prevention, intelligence-led risk management, investigations and assurance frameworks.
- Experience designing and implementing controls, policies and processes that strengthen organisational resilience and protect regulatory outcomes.
- Proven ability to analyse complex intelligence, risk and operational data to support evidence-based decision-making.
- Strong leadership skills, with experience developing high-performing teams and delivering change within complex organisations.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across operational, legal, policy, data and external partner networks.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, embedding continuous improvement and delivering measurable outcomes.
- A commitment to public protection, integrity, fairness and proportionate regulation.
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.
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.
About
Our vision is for safe and effective nursing and midwifery practice across the four countries of the UK – regulated and supported by the NMC – a fit for the future organisation, with fairness and equity at the heart of everything we do. Our role is to protect the public and maintain confidence in the nursing and midwifery professions. As the largest independent regulator in Europe of more than 860,000 nursing and midwifery professionals, we have a crucial role in making this a reality. We do this by setting and promoting high education and professional standards for all future and registered nurses and midwives in the UK and nursing associates in England. We also ensure every nurse, midwife and nursing associate on our Register meets clear standards of conduct and practice which protects the public and the reputation of our professions. We have a duty to investigate concerns and to take steps to protect the public in the relatively rare instances where we need to limit or restrict a nurse, midwife or nursing associate’s right to practise. We are building a new NMC with integrity, fairness, respect, equity and effectiveness at its core. We are determined to improve and modernise our culture and ways of working. This will ensure that the public and professionals feel confident in our work.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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