Solicitor, Financial Law

Job Description

Solicitor (Healthcare)

Colchester based - Hybrid or may consider remote for the right candidate

Use your healthcare legal expertise to make a real difference. We are urgently seeking a qualified solicitor with a strong healthcare background to join our client's legal team for on a temporary basis for 1-2 months whilst they recruit. This could lead to a temporary to permanent position for the right person. The legal department support a values-driven charity delivering vital health and care services.

This is a rare opportunity to apply your healthcare legal expertise in a role with real social impact - advising senior leaders, supporting frontline services, and ensuring robust governance and compliance across a complex regulatory landscape.

As Solicitor, you will provide high-quality, pragmatic legal advice across the organisation, with a particular focus on healthcare, clinical and regulatory matters. You will be a trusted advisor to directors and senior leadership, supporting decision-making in an environment shaped by healthcare legislation, commissioning frameworks and professional regulation.

Working closely with the Senior Solicitor and wider Legal team, you will manage a broad portfolio of contentious and non-contentious matters, balancing legal risk with practical, solutions-focused advice that enables excellent patient care and service delivery.

• Qualified Solicitor with significant post-qualification experience
• Demonstrable healthcare legal experience (in-house, NHS, charity or private practice)
• Degree-level education or higher
• Current practising certificate

• Strong knowledge of healthcare law and regulation, including NHS frameworks and care standards
• A broad understanding of English law affecting charities and healthcare providers
• Experience advising on clinical governance, patient data and regulatory compliance
• Commercial awareness and the ability to provide clear, pragmatic advice
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex healthcare and legal issues to non-legal audiences
• Strong drafting skills with attention to detail
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently
• A resilient, professional and ethical approach
• Commitment to ongoing professional development

You will work across an exceptionally varied healthcare-focused legal portfolio, including:

• Healthcare commissioner and NHS Standard Contracts
• Regulatory compliance (CQC, NHS England, Charity Commission, OSCR)
• Patient data, GDPR and information governance
• Complaints and Ombudsman matters
• Inquests and HM Coroner proceedings
• Court of Protection, Deprivation of Liberty Standards and LPAs
• Professional regulatory matters (NMC, HCPC, fitness to practise)
• Human rights and safeguarding issues
• Drafting and negotiating clinical, commercial and partnership agreements

Alongside this, you will support the wider charity on employment, litigation, IP, governance and ethical matters.