Senior Associate - Healthcare Regulatory

Type: Full Time
Duration: Permanent
Location: Manchester
Working Pattern: 2 days working from the office, 3 days remote
Department: Healthcare

The Role

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to join a successful team working with leading MDO, insurer and private organisational clients in the healthcare sector. The industry leading team is dedicated to providing the highest quality service to clients but also believes strongly in working together as a national group and collaborating with other practice groups in the national healthcare team. We operate a hybrid model of 2 days per week in the office and our sociable team often organise events and other opportunities to come together. We are committed to ensuring a flexible and supportive team dynamic, upholding the firm’s ‘work as one’ value. Our chargeable hours target is 6.5 hours per day.

The Team

Our national healthcare regulatory team is expanding and undertakes a broad spectrum of work defending healthcare professionals and organisations in regulatory proceedings before statutory regulators (GMC, GDC, GOC, GPhC, NMC, HCPC) as well as disciplinary proceedings before NHS Trusts, NHS England and other private healthcare businesses. The team are regularly instructed in Coroner’s Inquests, CQC proceedings, data disputes and public inquiries. There is also a specialist sub-team defending healthcare professionals in criminal proceedings. The regulatory team is led by Adam Weston in our London office.

Our Manchester regulatory team requires a Senior Associate to handle a varied caseload of regulatory, disciplinary and inquest matters for healthcare clients including insurance companies, medical/dental defence organisations, private individuals and professional associations. The successful candidate must manage a complex caseload and have experience running healthcare regulatory and disciplinary matters in previous roles. Additional experience of running inquests, CQC investigations or criminal matters for healthcare professionals/organisations would be helpful but is not essential.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Previous experience in a fee-earning environment.
• Ability to apply law and guidance to business requirements and challenges of a sophisticated clinical client base.
• Strong drafting skills and academic background.
• Minimum of 7 years' PQE with specific experience in healthcare regulation (PQE levels are a guide, all suitable candidates considered).
• Solicitors Act 1974: must have a practising certificate.
• Qualified solicitor, successful completion of a Training Contract (or equivalent) and relevant education (Legal Practice Course; Graduate Diploma in Law for non-law graduates).
• All solicitors and registered European lawyers in legal practice or employment in England & Wales must comply with the Solicitors Regulation Authority CPD scheme.
• Excellent legal ability and initiative, strong technical skills, confident in managing and prioritising a full and varied workload.
• Strong communicator with good attention to detail.
• Proactive, teamwork ethic, willingness to assume responsibility.

What Sets This Role Apart

• Multidisciplinary global healthcare group across civil litigation, regulatory, disciplinary, medical crime, coroner’s inquests, CQC proceedings, Court of Protection, capacity and consent, data, projects and construction, real estate, corporate, insurance, IP, commercial, IT, employment.
• Clients include public/private hospitals, medical defence organisations, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, professional associations, healthcare suppliers and distributors, healthcare companies, private equity firms specialising in healthcare investments, health ministries and authorities.
• Extensive office network across UK & Europe, US, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East enables seamless integrated service worldwide.

What’s In It For You

• Modern, flexible working – minimum 2 days each week from office, 3 days from home.
• Join an award-winning global firm: Clyde & Co ranked Band 1 in multiple practice areas by Chambers and Legal 500.

Career progression and development: structured learning and development programs, secondment opportunities and internal mobility across global offices.

Award-winning for pro bono work, recognised as an inclusive firm, with global DEI initiatives, leadership programmes, community impact through volunteering and sustainability.

Perks include life assurance from day one, season ticket loans and lifestyle discounts, an annual Wellbeing Day each year, 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and more. Eligibility for benefits may vary based on location and length of service; full details confirmed upon joining.

The Firm

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values guide decisions, unite us and strengthen delivery to clients. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating responsibly, progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves, supporting pro bono work, volunteering, charitable partnerships and minimizing environmental impact through SBTi Net-Zero standard and ambitious emissions reduction targets.

Our Commitment

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit discrimination to allow everyone to excel at work. We welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Learn more about our interview process.

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