We are looking for a Paralegal to join our Case Preparation team in our FTP Legal Services Department on a fixed term basis for 12 months. The FTP Legal Services Department is a specialised legal team within the HCPC providing comprehensive support for fitness to practise cases across 15 health and care professions. The department investigates concerns about registrants, makes threshold decisions on case progression, and prepares and presents cases before practice committees. The team includes case review managers, decision makers, presenting officers, investigations lawyers, and external legal providers. Operating within a directorate managing approximately 1,900 open cases, the department ensures regulatory outcomes are reached efficiently and fairly whilst maintaining public protection at its core.

We recognise that paralegal roles can be of interest to a wide range of professionals with different career plans and goals. We’d love to hear from anyone who meets our essential criteria and is looking for a challenging role in a legal team in professional regulation.

We’re a new and growing in-house legal team and we’re confident that the successful applicants will have an opportunity to build key skills necessary for a successful legal career.

This role could be for you if you’re looking for a supportive environment where you can gain experience to support your route to qualification as a lawyer.  For example, this role could be for you if you’re looking for a role that contributes to qualifying experience for CILEX or SQE.

About the role

Purpose and Main Duties

This is an exciting time to join the new and growing in house fitness to practise legal team. We’re changing the way we deliver ftp so that we’re ready for regulatory reform.

We use external legal providers (ELPs) to investigate, prepare and present some of our FtP cases to our statutory committees on the HCPC’s behalf.

This particular role is to join our in-house case preparation team (a small team of lawyers and paralegals who work closely with the ELPs). The team oversees case held by the ELPs making sure that they conduct quality investigations in a timely way. The paralegal role involves ensuring the ELPs are provided with instructions they need to progress and prepare cases for hearing so that they run smoothly. It also involves ensuring that the ELPs are held accountable for concluding cases in accordance with their SLAs.

Please do look at the job description for more information and contact us if you have any questions.

Candidate Requirements

To fulfil this role effectively, a candidate will have excellent organisational skills, have the resilience needed to work on some of our sensitive cases and be driven by our goal to protect the public and support case parties through our investigation process.  Please do look at the person specification for more information.

What we offer

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. 

Further information on this role is detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification.   Please click here to download the Job Description and Person Specification.

Location: Hybrid working with a mandatory attendance of 1-2 days a week at our office in London.

Closing Date: Monday, 27 October 2025 at 1pm.

Interview Date: Week commencing 10 November 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. If you’d like to speak about this role please contact recruitment@hcpc-uk.org . They’ll either be able to answer your question or put you in contact with our Head of FtP Legal Services or one of the lawyers in the team, who are happy to speak with potential candidates.

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.