Education Quality Assurance Officer

The Nursing and Midwifery Council

£40,982 - £45,535 / year

London or EdinburghFull-timeHybridIntermediate

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Description

About the Team

The Education Quality Assurance Team plays a vital role in ensuring nursing, midwifery and nursing associate education programmes across the UK meet the standards required to prepare safe and effective professionals for registration.

Working closely with approved education institutions (AEIs), practice learning partners and key stakeholders, the team provides proactive quality assurance support, guidance and oversight to help providers develop, deliver and continuously improve high-quality education programmes.

The team acts as the primary relationship holder for universities and works collaboratively with colleagues across Education Monitoring and Education Concerns to identify risks, share intelligence and ensure education providers continue to meet regulatory standards. Together, these teams help protect the public by promoting excellence in healthcare education.

Your Role and Impact

As an Education Quality Assurance Officer, you will be the key relationship lead for a portfolio of approved education institutions within a designated region of the UK.

You will work proactively with universities and education providers, helping them understand and implement our standards, supporting programme approvals and modifications, and ensuring they have the guidance and tools required to deliver high-quality education.

Often described as the "front door" to education quality assurance, this role combines relationship management, quality assurance, stakeholder engagement and regulatory decision-making. You will build trusted relationships with providers while exercising sound judgement when reviewing programme proposals, assessing evidence and identifying emerging risks.

In this role, you will:

Manage relationships with a portfolio of approved education institutions across your allocated region.
Act as the primary point of contact for universities, providing advice and guidance on standards and regulatory requirements.
Support programme approvals, modifications and ongoing quality assurance activities.
Review documentation and evidence to determine whether programmes meet regulatory expectations.
Analyse intelligence, information and assurance data to identify emerging risks, themes and trends.
Exercise delegated authority to make recommendations and support decisions relating to educational quality and programme delivery.
Produce reports, recommendations and briefing materials to support governance and decision-making processes.
Work collaboratively with colleagues across education, policy, communications and regulatory functions.
Support providers to improve educational quality and student experiences.
Contribute to the development of guidance, resources and improvements that enhance quality assurance activity across the sector.

We are recruiting for three positions covering the following patches.

Scotland and East of England
Wales and Northwest England
London

Candidates should indicate their preferred region as part of their application.

As the role involves building strong relationships with providers and undertaking visits where required, regular travel throughout your allocated region forms an important part of the role. We welcome applications from candidates based across the UK and recognise the value of regional knowledge and experience of local higher education systems.

What You Will Bring

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about educational quality, relationship management and public protection.

You will bring:

Experience working within higher education, quality assurance, healthcare, regulation, professional standards, compliance or a related environment.
Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with a diverse range of partners.
Experience interpreting and applying standards, frameworks, policies or regulatory requirements.
Excellent attention to detail and the ability to make accurate, evidence-based decisions.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify risks, themes and opportunities for improvement.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge constructively.
The ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes in a complex environment.
Sound judgement and the ability to balance risk, quality and stakeholder needs effectively.
A commitment to fairness, consistency, inclusion and public protection.

Experience or knowledge of nursing, midwifery, nursing associate education, healthcare education or higher education quality assurance would be particularly advantageous. However, we welcome applications from candidates with transferable experience from wider regulatory, quality assurance or professional standards environments.

Key Responsibilities

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 working
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

Benefits

The role you are applying for is a flexible role, and whilst you will be posted initially to a team, this may require movement between teams as the flow of work dictates. You will of course understand that this flexible approach enables us to provide the best possible service to our registrants and reach the outcomes to our cases quickly and within a reasonable timeframe. This will not change your terms and conditions and will be discussed with you prior to you taking up the post.

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.

Benefits

The role you are applying for is a flexible role, and whilst you will be posted initially to a team, this may require movement between teams as the flow of work dictates. You will of course understand that this flexible approach enables us to provide the best possible service to our registrants and reach the outcomes to our cases quickly and within a reasonable timeframe. This will not change your terms and conditions and will be discussed with you prior to you taking up the post. 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.

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About this role

The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Education Quality Assurance Team exists to protect the public by ensuring nursing, midwifery and nursing associate programmes across the UK meet the standards needed to produce safe, effective professionals. As an Education Quality Assurance Officer, you would be the primary relationship lead for a portfolio of universities and education providers across one of three designated regions: Scotland and East of England, Wales and Northwest England, or London. This is fundamentally a relationship management role combined with regulatory oversight—you'd be the trusted advisor universities turn to for guidance on standards and requirements, while also exercising delegated authority to review programme proposals, assess evidence and identify emerging risks.

The work involves regular travel throughout your region to build and maintain relationships with providers, review documentation against regulatory expectations, and analyse data to spot trends and quality concerns. You would produce reports and recommendations to support governance decisions, work collaboratively across the council's education and regulatory teams, and contribute to developing guidance and resources that improve quality assurance practice sector-wide. The role demands strong stakeholder management, analytical capability, sound judgement under competing pressures, and the ability to balance quality, risk and relationship needs fairly and consistently.

You should have experience in higher education, quality assurance, healthcare, regulation or professional standards, with proven skills in interpreting and applying standards, identifying risks, and communicating with confidence. Prior knowledge of nursing or healthcare education is valuable but not essential; the council welcomes transferable experience from wider regulatory or quality assurance environments. The position is hybrid, based two days per week in one of the council's offices, with a salary of £40,982 to £45,535 and benefits including 30 days annual leave, enhanced pension contributions, life insurance and subsidised season ticket loans.

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