Legal Review and Operations Officer

We are looking to recruit a Legal Review and Operations Officer to join our Section 29 team within the Regulation and Accreditation Directorate on a 12 month fixed-term contract. We are open to this role being a secondment from another organisation.

The team is responsible for reviewing final fitness to practise panel decisions of the 10 health and social care regulators we oversee, and where we decide that the decisions do not protect the public, we can bring an appeal to Court under Section 29 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002.

We also share learning and feedback from our scrutiny of panel decisions with the regulators with the aim to help improve regulation and decision making, and these are taken into account by our Performance Review team in their regular assessments of a regulator’s performance. 

The role involves:

• To review and analyse cases under the PSA’s section 29 process, making decisions on the PSA’s action. To identify (and draft) learning points to be fed back to the regulators.


• Line managing Legal Administrator.


• Ensuring the efficient coordination and operation of the work of the team, particularly its section 29 process and monitoring of cases at different stages. You will carry out case management and administration tasks, where required.


• To collate and carry out analysis of information about the team’s work, case data and appeals for internal and external stakeholders.

We currently operate a hybrid policy. In the first six months of employment full-time staff working over five days will be expected to attend the office three days a week, after this the requirement is two days a week in the office. However, should you require any reasonable adjustments or wish to discuss the possibility of further flexible working please contact us directly to discuss.

The PSA’s offices are currently located in Blackfriars, London.

About you

We are looking to recruit a Legal Review and Operations Officer who has:

• Strong analytical skills and excellent attention to detail


• Good drafting and communication skills including the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively and simply


• Strong coordination/operational skills


• An understanding of statistics and the production of statistical data, is numerate, and has an ability to work comfortably with figures and statistics


• A good understanding of fitness to practise legislation and processes of the regulatory bodies the PSA oversees.

You will need and a strong commitment to protecting patients and the public. You will also need to share our values of integrity, transparency, respect, fairness and teamwork.

About the Professional Standards Authority

We are the UK’s oversight body for the regulation of people working in health and social care. There are 10 organisations that regulate health professionals in the UK and social workers in England by law. We audit their performance and review their decisions on practitioners’ fitness to practise. We also accredit and set standards for organisations holding registers of health and care practitioners not regulated by law. We share good practice, knowledge and our right-touch regulation expertise. We monitor policy developments in the UK and internationally, providing guidance to governments and stakeholders.

We are committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our staff can flourish and reach their full potential. We know that a diverse workforce, at all levels, allows for a more creative and productive environment bringing different viewpoints, knowledge and experience. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from everyone irrespective of age, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will guarantee an interview for people with disabilities who meet all the essential criteria and so if you would like to be considered under this scheme then please let us know.

We will not accept CVs or applications where CVs are attached in place of a personal statement. Please see attachments at the bottom of this page for the job description and application form.

If you have any questions, or would like reasonable adjustments to be made at any stage of the process, please do not hesitate to contact the HR team on 0207 389 8050 or email us at recruitment@professionalstandards.org.uk.

To apply, please contact our team for a copy of the application form at recruitment@professionalstandards.org.uk.

The closing date for applications is 31 May 2026 (11.59pm).

Interviews will be held on 16 June 2026. The interview will include a written assessment. Please note that it is unlikely that an alternative interview date could be offered should you be unable to attend at this time.

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