About Hempsons With over 250 staff and lawyers working across our five offices nationwide, Hempsons is a leading law firm for the health and social care, life sciences, charity and social enterprise sectors. We help clients overcome a constantly evolving list of challenges. Examples of ground breaking projects we are working on with clients are: • enabling new technology providers to establish products in the health market; • advising on the development of new care models for the NHS; • helping GPs to expand primary care provision by setting up GP federations and super-practices; • supporting companies developing novel cell therapies and gene therapies; • helping charities and social enterprises to initiate new organisational structures and ways of working. Our aim is to provide outstanding legal services that deliver the best possible client outcomes whilst nurturing a culture that makes us a “great place to work”. The Role: We are looking for a technical employment lawyer to join our national employment team and work with us on the extensive range of services we provide. The national team is headed up by Andrew Davidson who is a leading employment lawyer with many years of experience across the public sector, more specifically the NHS. You will be able to gain an insight into all aspects of both contentious and non-contentious employment work and have a real opportunity to develop your career with Hempsons. This role can be based in any of our 5 offices; London, Manchester, Harrogate, Newcastle or Southampton. The Team: Our Employment team operate on a national basis across several of our offices, predominantly across our London, Manchester and Harrogate offices and offer an exceptional depth of knowledge and experience of the health and social care sectors. With long-standing clients across the entire health and social care spectrum, we advise providers, commissioners, regulators and policy makers; providing robust, actionable and knowledgeable advice quickly across the full range of services our clients need. Skills and Competencies: We would expect the post holder to be qualified solicitor, ideally 3 to 5 PQE Experience of advising clients in the health, social care and third sector organisations. Experience of the NHS would be advantageous but not essential. Must have experience working on tribunal claims and other contentious matters and an ability to undertake the day-to-day conduct of ET litigation files is essential Ability to supervise junior lawyers and able to delegate work to other fee earners and ensure capacity levels are optimised; you will take an active role in supervising the work of and assisting in the development of trainees and solicitor apprentices. Excellent business development and marketing skills; you will have the support from our dedicated Client Services/Marketing team to do so. What can we offer you? Our benefits package is designed to enable all colleagues to thrive in an inclusive and supportive environment. These benefits include; holiday purchase scheme, private health insurance, life assurance & critical illness cover protection, season ticket loans, cycle-to-work scheme and much more. Hempsons is an equal opportunities employer Hempsons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all and to encouraging diversity through recruitment. Applications are welcome from all sections of the community and decisions to progress will be made with reference to entirely objective criteria only.