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Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel (Clinical & Corporate)

Barbican & Epsom | Hybrid Working (2 days a week) | Legal & Governance | Permanent

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

We’re looking for a Senior Legal Counsel (Clinical & Corporate) to join our Legal team and play a pivotal role in supporting our strategic goals while managing risk and ensuring compliance. Reporting to the Chief Legal & Governance Officer, you’ll be part of a friendly, forward-thinking team in a dynamic organisation that values development and innovation.

As our Senior Legal Counsel (Clinical & Corporate) you will:

Advise on legal, regulatory, and governance matters across our Hospitals and Clinical teams, including CMA compliance.
Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial and clinical contracts (e.g. NHS and private medical insurer agreements).
Support corporate transactions such as acquisitions, disposals, and strategic collaborations.
Enhance governance and compliance through policy development and risk mitigation.
Deliver in-house training and legal updates to clinical and hospital teams.
Monitor legislative developments and advising on their impact.
Deputise for the Chief Legal & Governance Officer on charity and company secretarial matters.
Manage relationships with external legal advisors.

To succeed as a Senior Legal Counsel (Clinical & Corporate) we’re looking for:

A UK-qualified solicitor or barrister with at least 10 years’ PQE, ideally gained in healthcare law within an in-house or specialist private practice setting. You bring:
Strong regulatory and compliance expertise, ideally in healthcare.
Experience with NHS contracting and commercial agreements.
Corporate transactional knowledge.
Ability to translate complex legal issues into practical business advice.
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
A proactive, pragmatic, and commercially astute mindset.
Confidence working independently in a fast-paced environment.
You’ll thrive in our collegiate Legal & Assurance team, which includes Risk & Assurance, Data Protection, and Information Security.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you.

Rewards & Benefits

Helping you be and feel your best.

Annual Leave

25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.

Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan

Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.

*eligibility criteria applies.

Financial Wellbeing

A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.

Cycle to Work Scheme

Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.

Gym Membership

Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.

Online GP

Discounted access to secure video and telephone GP consultations and a suite of healthcare management tools, provided by digital healthcare company Doctor Care Anywhere.

Relevant Stories

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Hints & Tips

Help with your application.

Once you’ve found the right role for you, you can apply online. All you need to do at this stage is submit your CV, a covering email, and a few personal details.

Our recruitment team screens all of the applications we receive. So, if they see that you’ve got the right sort of skills and experience needed for the role, your details will be passed on to the relevant hiring manager. Then, if you fit all the criteria at this stage, you’ll be invited to take part in a video, telephone or face-to-face interview.

CV

Think about the skills and qualities asked for in the job description and show how you’ve applied those same skills and qualities in other roles. Focus on the things that will make us want to see more of you.

Covering email

Your CV will contain details about why you’d be a good fit for the role, but it’s well worth adding a short, snappy paragraph pulling out the two or three most compelling reasons as to why you’d be perfect for the job in your covering email..

Video interview

The video interview lasts 15-20 minutes if you get to this stage. On the day, look the part, be aware of your surroundings and practice your answers to feel prepared. Most of all, relax and be yourself.

DBS Checks

Some of our roles require a DBS check and they are processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of the recruitment process. These checks are to assist employers in making safer recruitment decisions. However, a check is just one part of robust recruitment practice.

Documents

You could be asked to provide proof of vaccinations as part of our Occupational Health pre-employment screening. We know it can be time consuming to get this information if you don’t already have it to hand, so we encourage you to start preparing this information to avoid any delays to the onboarding process.

Your current studies

If you are currently undertaking any strudies, education or apprenticeships, its worth noting there are some training provider we're not partnered with, and therefore potentially unable to support your continued learning. Ensure you share this at interview and for queries contact psc@nuffieldhealth.com

Feedback on applications

Due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to provide individual feedback from an inital application.