Solicitor

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.

What we're looking for:

Qualifications

• 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

Experience & skills required:

• 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

Your impact

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.