Associate - Health Employment

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and awardwinning international commercial law firm with offices in Birmingham Hong Kong Leeds Limassol Liverpool London Manchester Monaco Newcastle Piraeus and Singapore. With more than 1000 people including 200 partners and legal directors the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum from noncontentious advisory and transactional work to all forms of commercial litigation.

Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade through to retail insurance marine health education manufacturing public sector and banking and financial services.

Job role: Associate Health Employment

Hours: Monday to Friday 09:00 17:30 37.5 hours per week)

Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2024 and so we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

Team: Health Employment

Location: London

Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here are some examples of what we offer:

• Annual leave starting at 25 days
• Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
• Holiday buy sell and carryover scheme
• 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
• Optional private medical insurance via BUPA
• Annual fitness allowance
• Flexible pension scheme
• ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice
• Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme
• Medicash
• EAP with access to counselling
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or backup care per year
• Life assurance
• Group income protection
• Annual travel season ticket loan
• Hybrid working and dress for your day policy
• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Financial contribution towards home working equipment

Role overview

Introduction to the role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Solicitor to join our successful health employment team based in London.

Joining a busy but growing employment team you will be given plenty of client responsibility but at the same time be part of a supportive team environment.

You will be a trusted member of the team and will work closely with the Partners to assist in the coordination of cases as well as the supervision of other team members.

You will have the opportunity to work as a part of a wider employment team which has a national presence.

The primary aim of the role is to support our health sector clients (primarily NHS) with the provision of highquality effective legal advice.

Key responsibilities:

• Providing legal advice to a broad range of healthcare clients across the NHS primary care and private health sectors.
• Undertaking all aspects of employment law advice including:
  • drafting employment contracts and associated documents and policies
  • advising on a widerange of employee relations issues such as disciplinary matters grievances managing sickness and performance dismissals redundancy/restructuring discrimination and whistleblowing
  • supporting clients in the defence of (often complex) employment tribunal claims
  • advising clients on familyfriendly obligations/rights
• Transactional support including advice on the employment aspects of asset transfers (i.e. the application of TUPE) and share transactions.
• Building and maintaining client and internal relationships adhering to both internal and external operating procedures.
• Contributing to business development via article writing and client presentations.

What are we looking for:

Important criteria:

• Qualified Solicitor or equivalent
• Demonstrable experience of working as part of an employment team.
• Ability in and experience of managing a caseload providing sound pragmatic advice.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• The ability to work independently and proactively.
• Ability to adhere to guidelines and procedures.
• Experience of client relationship management.
• Flexibility in approach and a willingness to work outside normal office hours if required.

It would be beneficial for you to have some of the following:

• Employment law experience within the health sector
• Proven record of successful business development

If you dont meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson we encourage you to submit an application and if successful we can help you develop along the way.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age gender gender identity ethnic origin disability sexual orientation marital or transgender status nationality religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.

Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification with both the SRA and CILEx.

Disability Support

We are a Disability Confident employer which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier so you are able to perform at your best please let us know. You can contact the HR team at should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.

Values

Trust Respect Innovation Collaboration

At Hill Dickinson we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification with both the SRA and CILEx.

All successful candidates will be subject to our standard preemployment screening including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.