About the Department:

FTP Department

The FTP department receives and investigates concerns about registrants’ fitness to practise, incorrect or fraudulently procured entries onto our register, protection of title offences and provides an adjudication function through the  HCPC Tribunal Service (HCPTS).

We employ around 130 people, who are collectively responsible for the delivery of the HCPC’s FTP and adjudication work. We manage an open caseload of approximately 2,000 cases across the department.

FTP Legal Services

Since April 2024, we’ve been growing the in-house legal services teams that sit within our FTP Department.  Our in-house legal services now include a decision-making team, a presenting officer team, an investigation case holding team, a team who provide oversight for cases held by our External Legal Providers and a team who manage our substantive order review cases.

About the role:

Purpose

Within our FTP department, we now have a number of teams that make up our in-house FTP legal services. We’re looking to introduce a new management role to support the operation and performance of the FTP legal services teams.

Main Duties

The main responsibilities of the role will involve:

-        Management support for Presenting Officer hearing allocations - managing resource to ensure all hearings listed by the HCPTS have an appropriate Presenting Officer allocated to present on behalf of HCPC.

-        Providing effective case progression instructions to External Legal Providers (ELPs) on cases being investigated before the Investigating Committee.

-        Oversight of ELPs in relation to effective and proactive case progression across the caseload of cases that have not yet been considered by the Investigating Committee.

We’ve prepared a detailed overview of the work we anticipate this post holder will do in this new role in the job description.

Candidate Requirements

To fulfil this role effectively, a candidate will have excellent organisational skills, an ability to monitor and drive performance, be an effective operational problem solver and be able to make autonomous instructions to external stakeholders.

Alongside our excellent employee benefits, we are committed to your ongoing learning and development to build your skills, experience, and career. 

You can find out more about our benefits on our website 

Closing Date: 12 May 2025 (All vacancies will close at 1pm)

Interview Date: Week Commencing 26 May 2025

Application information:  Please submit a supporting statement along with your CV. Applications without a supporting statement will not be reviewed.

Further information on this role is detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification .

HCPC’s vision is to be recognised as an actively anti-discriminatory organisation that upholds and promotes best practice in equality, diversity and inclusion and an active ally for change. We are a Disability Confident employer and aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the HCPC. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to ensure the recruitment process is inclusive and barrier-free and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to have a confidential discussion on how we can support you, please contact recruitment@hcpc-uk.org .

Our values  underpin what we do and how we do it, to help us operate to high standards and effectively as a regulator and employer*.* In addition to the core competencies for this role, we will also assess you against our values during the selection process: Please refer to the HCPC Values and Behavioural Framework.