Lawyer x 2 – Central Legal Services

CQC’s Legal Services team is established and dynamic. The work is interesting and often high profile and/or fast paced. As a Lawyer, you will be responsible for providing robust, responsive legal advice, developing strong relationships with colleagues throughout the organisation and with external stakeholders, and using your experience and knowledge to shape legal solutions.
We are looking for 2 lawyers to join the Central Legal Services teams:
Commercial & Procurement Lawyer:
Responsible for supporting CQC on its commercial activities, such as contractual matters, general commercial law and the public procurement regime. This work ranges from advising on all aspects of the public procurement process, as well as governance, drafting, negotiating, formalising and advising on a wide range of contracts, contractual interpretation, intellectual property, trademark protection, data protection, freedom of information, and company law.
Public Law Advisory Lawyer:
Responsibilities include advising on a wide range of cross cutting issues. This work includes the provision of advice relating to policy creation and development, public law, CQC’s general statutory functions, finance, guidance development, and consultation. The team also supports the work of Healthwatch England and the National Guardians Office.

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on., You will be a qualified Solicitor, Barrister or CILEx Fellow with either 2+ years post qualification experience or newly qualified with proven substantial experience providing legal advice in a public law advisory/commercial and procurement setting.
You will have an established history of managing caseloads.
Your key skills will include:
+ Teamwork, and communication to build and maintain relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
+ An eye for detail whilst looking at the bigger picture, the ability to analyse risk and benefit within a fast-paced environment and the ability to reassess priorities on a continual basis.
+ Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, Decision- making and reasoning.
+ Adaptability and ability to advise and present complex legal information clearly and accessibly.

We all use health and social care services. This is an opportunity to join an organisation that has an impact on the improvement agenda for those services, so that you can make a difference to the standard of care people receive in adult social care, hospitals, mental health services, children’s services, health and justice services and primary medical services.

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.
We want to support you to succeed and be your very best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.
We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.