Regulation Compliance Officer Higher Apprentice - Warwick
NATIONAL GRID PLC
Gallows Hill (CV34 6DA)
Closes on Saturday 28 February 2026
Posted on 3 December 2025
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Summary
You will deliver 17 new major projects in the UK, as well as other strategic projects to help us deliver on our net zero ambitions and help the UK Government meet its target of 50GW of renewable energy by 2030.
- Wage
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£24,306 a year
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- 26 days annual leave + statutory holidays.
- Pension scheme and sharesave options.
- Flexible benefits.
- Opportunity to enrol in our sharesave/share incentive plans.
- Training course
- Regulatory compliance officer (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, (08:00 - 16:00, 09:00 - 17:00).
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Our aim is to help the UK switch to clean energy and make sure our electricity network is fit for the future; carrying more clean, secure energy from where it’s generated to where you need it.
As a Regulation Compliance Officer Higher Apprentice, you would play a crucial role in enabling us to do this.
Within this role you’ll have real responsibility, gaining hands on experience that will help you to learn and develop skills to succeed in your role, including:
- Learning about essential compliance processes such as assurance and regulatory reporting
- Undertaking risk assessments, carrying out investigations and compiling formal reports
- Develop skills to investigate complaints and incidents and their ability to work effectively
- Develop understanding of the benefits of promoting compliance.
- Learn how to use attention to detail and analytical skills to spot regulatory compliance risks and identify areas for improvement
- Develop project management skills to lead and support projects to improve our regulatory compliance processes
Where you'll work
National Grid House
Warwick Technology Park
Gallows Hill
CV34 6DA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NATIONAL GRID PLC
Training course
Regulatory compliance officer (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Work within legal and regulatory frameworks and the organisation's policies and procedures.
- Make informed assessments of the risk of a business or individual’s non-compliance.
- Use outcomes of risk assessment to guide decisions, activities and targeting of resources.
- Make proportionate and risk-based intervention choices to ensure compliance is achieved.
- Collect evidence and data related to non-compliance using available techniques, for example investigations, audits, inspections.
- Take actions to deal with non-compliance using proportionate interventions.
- Monitor progress made by businesses and individuals against assessed risks.
- Assess products and services, including any associated internal controls to ensure they meet legal, regulatory and organisational requirements.
- Use and analyse data, making decisions about the relevance, quality and accuracy to inform evidence-based and objective risk assessments.
- Take a systematic approach to data curation and apply data quality controls to ensure the correct use of data-driven findings.
- Identify patterns and trends in compliance issues.
- Promote the importance of compliance and their organisation’s role in supporting compliance.
- Build and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders and tailor their approach to the needs and circumstances of those they interact with.
- Communicate with stakeholders including businesses, individuals and regulators.
- Use digital technologies to manage, share and store information and to communicate with others.
- Follow and apply equity, diversity and inclusion rules and procedures when making evidence-based decisions and interacting with stakeholders.
- Use workload management techniques to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks and manage time effectively.
- Work within legal and regulatory frameworks and the organisation's policies and procedures.
- Make informed assessments of the risk of a business or individual’s non-compliance.
- Use outcomes of risk assessment to guide decisions, activities and targeting of resources.
- Make proportionate and risk-based intervention choices to ensure compliance is achieved.
- Collect evidence and data related to non-compliance using available techniques, for example investigations, audits, inspections.
- Take actions to deal with non-compliance using proportionate interventions.
- Monitor progress made by businesses and individuals against assessed risks.
- Assess products and services, including any associated internal controls to ensure they meet legal, regulatory and organisational requirements.
- Use and analyse data, making decisions about the relevance, quality and accuracy to inform evidence-based and objective risk assessments.
- Take a systematic approach to data curation and apply data quality controls to ensure the correct use of data-driven findings.
- Identify patterns and trends in compliance issues.
- Promote the importance of compliance and their organisation’s role in supporting compliance.
- Build and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders and tailor their approach to the needs and circumstances of those they interact with.
- Communicate with stakeholders including businesses, individuals and regulators.
- Use digital technologies to manage, share and store information and to communicate with others.
- Follow and apply equity, diversity and inclusion rules and procedures when making evidence-based decisions and interacting with stakeholders.
- Use workload management techniques to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks and manage time effectively.
Training schedule
Regulatory Compliance Officer Level 4 (Higher national certificate) Apprenticeship Standard
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level in:
BTEC in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Patience
- Adaptable
- Safety
- Reliable
- Responsible
Other requirements
Within the role you will support the delivery of one of our major infrastructure projects within Strategic Infrastructure, and therefore you will be required to live within a 45–60-minute commutable distance of the following postcode: CV34 6DA
You will be required to travel to our site locations, annually you’re expected to travel more than 10,000 miles for business.
A driving license is required for this role so if you do not already have one you must have obtained one by 31st May 2026.
About this employer
National Grid is at the heart of the energy future, and our people are at the heart of National Grid. We’re 30,000 colleagues strong. In the UK, National Grid doesn’t generate or sell energy – we join the dots to get energy from A to B. From making a cup of tea in the morning, to keeping the lights on in hospitals, our electricity network puts power in the hands of people. Without it, the world as we know it would grind to a halt.
The world of energy is changing beyond recognition as we focus on building a cleaner, greener future. Working at National Grid, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in the UK – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.
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Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Upon successful completion of the programme, you will join National Grid as a Level 3 Project Congrol Technician
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NATIONAL GRID PLC
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000003545.
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Closes on Saturday 28 February 2026
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