Job Introduction
As a Junior Commercial Lawyer, you will be joining our small, high-calibre legal team who offer fantastic flexibility, where you can work from home and only expected to travel to our London or Runcorn offices for team meetings as and when required.
You will have individual responsibility for managing a wide variety of contract and commercial matters, interacting daily with all levels of the business. You will also work closely with the Senior Legal Counsel to provide support to large-scale services, contracts and other strategic projects. You will be involved in providing legal training to the wider business and to colleagues in the legal team, drafting precedents and know-how notes and carrying out research. You will also be required to actively participate in developing the strategy and objectives of the team and contribute to achieving them.
Main Responsibility
You will be a valued member of the Legal Team with exposure to all areas of the organisation. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Advising on and drafting a range of commercial contracts, including NHS standard or local authority contracts
- Providing legal support to the Business Development Team in tenders
- Supporting the mobilisation of large-scale health services and other significant projects
- Providing advice on contractual queries, IP issues and potential disputes
- Carrying out research on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues
- Supporting the business to achieve commercial solutions, taking a proactive approach to delivery
- Providing training to the wider business and looking for opportunities to embed better ways of working
The Ideal Candidate
You will be a qualified solicitor of 1-3 years’ PQE with strong commercial acumen and excellent communication skills and ideally have broad corporate and commercial experience. You should be able to demonstrate sound technical and commercial ability and solid drafting and negotiation skills.
The ideal candidate will be capable of effectively managing their workload and working autonomously, as well as being a committed and flexible team player. You must also be passionate about providing results-focused, pragmatic and joined-up legal advice and exceeding the expectations of others.
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Junior Commercial Lawyer within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £47,500 - £55,000 dependant on experience and access to our group pension
- Private medical insurance from Bupa, with fast access to the most used specialists without a referral from your GP – including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support – at locations across the country
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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