Health Associate PQE

Employment Health Associate 4+ PQE (Birmingham, Bristol or Leeds)

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With four of our eleven partners ranked Band 1 in Chambers and Partners including two of our six specialist employment health and care partners, our Employment, Pensions and Immigration team continues to be a market leader for legal services to health and care as well as to local government.

Our national Employment, Pensions and Business Immigration team is recognised as a Chambers and Legal 500 Top Tier Employment Team. Chambers & Partners 2025 ranks Bevan Brittan as one of only three firms at Band 1 for Employment:

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Healthcare and we have the most Band 1 ranked lawyers in this area.

Alongside our established reputation in these markets, the team continues to grow its profile and client base in some of our emerging markets including the insurance and finance, commercial, higher education and housing sectors.

The team operates on a truly national basis, providing our lawyers with the opportunity to work with a variety of colleagues and clients. Acting mainly for employers, our roster of clients includes national and multi‑national organisations, and we support them to improve their employment practices and manage workforce issues, as well as defending employment claims and seeking to mitigate risks for clients.

We act alongside our complementary multi-disciplinary teams such as information law, commercial and regulatory teams.

Bevan Brittan has strong recognition in the independent legal directories - Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. In both guides we are consistently ranked in the top tier for our practices across the UK, with multiple individuals recognised as leading lawyers.

"Bevan Brittan is widely renowned for delivering expert employment advice and support to public and private healthcare organisations across the country. The firm is adept at handling highly sensitive disputes including complex High Court and tribunal cases […] assisting clients with employment issues relating to shared services agreements and partnerships [and] workplace culture issues, including whistle‑blowing, bullying and discrimination" –
Chambers & Partners, 2025

We are looking for an Associate (4+ PQE) to join us, based in our Bristol, Birmingham or Leeds office (with flexible hybrid working), ideally with health and care sector advisory experience and capability to manage complex litigation as part of a team.

As a member of the national employment healthcare practice the primary focus of your role will be supporting the healthcare partner leads, across our substantial health and care practice, including the NHS, as well as independent healthcare organisations and operators within care and the voluntary sector. As part of this, you would also work with other members of the team, as well as part of multi-disciplinary teams across the firm, providing employment support on a variety of transactions and deals.

Building relationships, both externally with our clients and across our internal teams, is key. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with regulatory and commercial healthcare colleagues to ensure a joined up, multi-disciplinary approach. You will ideally have some experience of the NHS workforce and contractual frameworks and, some TUPE and transactional experience.

You will also have the opportunity to support clients in the other sectors in which we work and across a variety of work-types from transactional, to advisory support, to contentious work. The depth and breadth of the markets in which we operate will provide the opportunity and flexibility to work on novel and complex employment law issues.

With more than 100 new litigation instructions every year, our Employment team's litigation experience is second to none. Whether in the Tribunal, the EAT, the Court of Appeal or the High Court you will have the chance to be involved in ground-breaking employment litigation. Managing complex litigation is likely to be significant part of your role.

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