Overview

Are you a qualified solicitor or barrister with significant post qualification experience and an entitlement to practise law in England and Wales? If so, join Elysium Healthcare as a Regional Legal Counsel. As Regional Legal Counsel you will provide high-quality legal advice aligned to one or more operational regions within Elysium, with regard to managing legal risk and delivering legal services across a range of areas of law affecting regional functions.

Your day-to-day workload will include advice on a wide range of matters including commercial, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, procurement, construction, property and planning law. You will act as a strategic business partner to support operational functions and the business to achieve strategic priorities, reporting to the General Counsel with a high degree of autonomy in the work delivered. You will work cooperatively with other members of the wider legal, risk and governance team to support all levels of the business, including frontline staff, heads of departments, strategic leads, and operations and executive directors.

Responsibilities

• Provide timely, high-quality legal advice across key areas of law.
• Manage a varied caseload with autonomy and sound judgment.
• Act as a strategic legal business partner to internal stakeholders.
• Support legal policy development and internal training.
• Contribute to cross-functional projects and initiatives.
• Communicate legal risk clearly to non-legal audiences.
• Assist and work alongside the General Counsel on complex and/or high-value legal matters, e.g. commercial contracts, strategic procurements, corporate or property acquisitions/disposals, material litigation, and regulatory compliance.
• Deliver business-focused, accurate legal advice to reduce risk while supporting commercial objectives.
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements, including complex and high-value matters and day-to-day needs.
• Advise the business on the resolution of commercial disputes.
• Assist the General Counsel with developing company policies, processes and training for the legal areas covered.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary project teams, offering legal analysis and problem-solving input to support strategic objectives.
• Instruct, supervise and manage external lawyers as required.
• Act as a key business partner to regional functions, strengthening relationships with key colleagues.
• Provide regular updates to the General Counsel on workload, emerging risks and key matters.
• Provide general legal advice and support to regional HR teams on complex employment law issues as required.
• Support other lawyers within the legal team as needed (e.g. to cover annual leave).

To Be Successful In This Role, You Will

• Be a qualified solicitor or barrister with significant post-qualification experience and entitlement to practise law in England and Wales.
• Have a hands-on approach to legal work and be comfortable across multiple areas of law (e.g., commercial, corporate, competition, litigation, property, employment).
• Identify and minimise corporate legal risk.
• Possess strong communication and interpersonal skills both verbally and in writing.
• Be a self-starter, proactive and commercially minded.
• Demonstrate creative problem-solving with a can-do attitude.
• Work well under pressure with the ability to prioritise and handle competing demands.

What You Will Get

• Competitive annual salary
• 33 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off
• Wellbeing support and activities to maintain work-life balance
• 24-hour GP service
• Access to Stream to help manage finances
• Career development and training to achieve career goals
• Pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package
• Other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and more

About Your Next Employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, with opportunity to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network across 10 countries and over 86,000 employees globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.