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Adjudications Manager - Part Time - 0.8

Salary £48K (£60K FTE)
Location Central London with flexible working options
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This is a Permanent, Part Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The vacancy

*This role is 4 days per week*

 

Job Purpose

 

To manage the efficient, fair and lawful delivery of disciplinary and appeal hearings at the RCVS.

 

Key Responsibilities

  1. To effectively and efficiently manage the delivery of the Inquiry hearings function for disciplinary cases before the Disciplinary (DC) and Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committees (VNDC);
  2. To effectively and efficiently arrange and manage the Appeals Committee hearings in relation to examinations, status and accreditation appeals;
  3. Ensure that hearings are arranged and conducted fairly, legally and in a timely way, ensuring that they comply with statutory requirements, relevant rules and internal policies and procedures;
  4. Ensure that notices, documents and information are written clearly and accurately and sent to relevant parties on time, and in compliance with legal and internal policy requirements;
  5. Ensure that hearings are appropriately recorded, records are well managed and maintained, in compliance with legal requirements and internal policies;
  6. Proactive engagement with internal and external stakeholders, including committee members, defence organisations, appellants and registrants, to ensure the fair, lawful, efficient and effective delivery of Inquiry hearings.
  7. Work with colleagues to ensure that the processes relevant to hearings are efficient, transparent and fair. Creating and developing policies and protocols where required and keeping them under review;
  8. Ensure that best practice is identified and adopted where appropriate;
  9. Identify and document risks on the relevant risk register and actively manage and mitigate risks including escalation where appropriate;
  10. Manage information governance and security, including publication of information in relation to hearings;
  11. Lead the recruitment, monitoring, training and development of Committee members, Legal Assessors and relevant staff;
  12. Manage regular internal performance review of the inquiry hearings function and commission external reviews;
  13. Prepare and present reports on the performance of the hearings functions to senior stakeholders and relevant Committees;
  14. Undertake other duties in the Directorate and RCVS where required;
  15. Line manage the Clerk to the Disciplinary Committees.

 

Essential Qualifications

 

  • Demonstrable experience of managing and delivering hearings or adjudication functions in a legal environment. Educated to degree level (not essential with the right experience)

 

Essential skills, knowledge & experience

 

  1. Well organised and methodical with a clear, creative and pragmatic approach to problem solving;
  2. Demonstrable ability to think strategically, manage resources effectively and identify and implement processes to improve efficiency;
  3. Demonstrable ability to build and maintain constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
  4. Strong analytic capabilities – ability to analyse performance and identify and implement improvements;
  5. Demonstrable ability to manage multiple stakeholders to ensure delivery of timely and effective hearings;
  6. Demonstrable ability to identify and pragmatically deal with risks in a timely way, escalating where appropriate;
  7. Experience of line management and development of staff;
  8. IT proficiency in managing documents and hybrid hearings technology such as Zoom;
  9. Excellent written and oral communication skills.

 

Desired skills & experience

 

  •        Legal qualification

 

The organisation

Here at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, improving animal health and welfare by advancing the ethical, professional, and clinical standards of the veterinary professions is at the heart of all our work. We also strive to advance veterinary standards with programmes of work around mental health, leadership, environmental sustainability, diversity, and innovation.

We set the standards for and monitor the quality of veterinary education; we hold Registers of those vets and veterinary nurses who are qualified to practice; we set professional standards for vets and veterinary nurses, and we help practices raise their standards through our Practice Standards Scheme.

Team benefits

We're pleased to offer an attractive benefits package to all members our team. A few of these are listed below, however you can click here to see a full list and find out more!

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