Paralegal (FTC) - in-house regulatory - General Dental Council (GDC)

Deadline 23 February 2025 at 23.59

Location: London / Hybrid (2 days in office, 3 days from home)

Salary: £34,735 -  £40,864 (pro rata)

Hours: Full time

Contract: 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

This is an excellent opportunity to expand your analytical and research skills, whilst working for the public good. Working in the In-House Legal Advisory Service, you will gain invaluable experience in the healthcare regulation sector.

What you will do  

• Using legal research skills and knowledge of the GDC’s regulatory framework to produce legal research notes in response to requests for legal advice from across the GDC.
• Reviewing and analysing draft legislation, including preparing Keeling Schedules to allow comparison with current legislation.
• Working closely with team lawyers to prepare accurate and high-quality draft responses to correspondence and requests received by the team, from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Supporting the GDC to manage litigation effectively and cost efficiently, liaising with Counsel and external law firms to ensure that instructions and court papers are prepared accurately and in accordance with court deadlines.
• Assisting with the preparation of information bundles.
• Developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assisting proactively with the work of the department, as directed by the line manager, carrying out any other task as reasonably required by the organisation, including some administrative tasks to support Legal Assistant.

About you 

If you can demonstrate the following skills and experience, we would like to hear from you:

• Relevant legal experience. 
• Previous healthcare regulation experience.
• Legal qualification.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong legal drafting and analytical skills.

The people we interact with daily are incredibly diverse and we know how much of an asset empathy is to the way we operate. Your skills and expertise in equality and diversity, either as lived-in experience or as an ally, will be incredibly helpful in adding to the effectiveness of the team.

About Us

Our primary purpose is to protect patient safety and maintain public confidence in dental services. To achieve this, we register qualified dental professionals, set standards for the dental team, investigate complaints about dental professionals’ fitness to practise, and work to ensure the quality of dental education.

Our work matters and so do our people. We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion by recruiting and strengthening our teams with team members from different backgrounds, life experiences and viewpoints. Equality and diversity are not just words, they are what makes our teams strong and able to deliver. We want to be champions of diversity and to have a sense of belonging in the workplace, where everybody has the chance to contribute and to share what is important to them.

Hours 35 hours per week

Benefits:

Salary £34,735 -  £40,864 (pro rata)

The GDC is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, that provides an environment that reflects our values and culture and allows employees to flourish.

To support this we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, including flexible working arrangements from day one and employee networks that aid growth and development.

Some of our benefits include:

• 27 days holiday (plus statutory) - rising to 30 days after 2 years’ service
• Pension contributions up to 10%
• Buy/Sell annual leave
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave from 1 years’ service.
• Life assurance, income protection plan and enhanced sick leave policy
• Staff discounts including eye care contributions and discounted gym membership

We encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and career development of people from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. 

How to apply:

For a full job description, including the competencies you will be assessed on in your application, please click the apply button. 

As part of your supporting statement, please provide details of relevant skills and experience gained in a previous Paralegal role, and experience of managing a caseload.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 23 February 2025.

Please note that we reserve the right to bring this recruitment campaign to an end without notice, and we encourage all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.