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Do you want to be part of a sector leading national primary care team?

If so, have you considered a career at Hempsons?

Partner/Associate Solicitor, 7 + PQE- general practice, private doctors, primary care networks, GP provider organisations and federations, pharmacy, dental  

Any Office- Southampton,  Manchester, London, Harrogate, or Newcastle (Hybrid Working)

About Hempsons

With 250 staff and lawyers working across five offices nationwide, Hempsons is a leading law firm for the health and social care, charity, and social enterprise sectors, with a niche nationwide primary care team.

We help our clients tackle a constantly changing array of opportunities and challenges – never more so than now.

Our aim is to provide outstanding legal services that deliver the best possible client outcomes whilst nurturing a team culture that provides support and makes us a "great place to work".

Role

You will be aspiring to be one of our partners in our sector leading national primary healthcare team.  As part of the wider corporate/commercial team at Hempsons, you will lead in advising on GP, dental, pharmacy and/ or other primary care matters.  As well as participating in our programme of business development, you will lead a team of lawyers in providing advice to primary care practitioners, partnerships and companies, primary care networks, GP provider organisations and federations and integrated care organisations.

This exciting opportunity is for someone able to provide partnership, corporate and commercial advice to our GP clients in running their practices, their PCNs and GP federations, and have an ability to quickly come to terms with the NHS contracts, funding and issues for primary care providers. You will have the support of experts within other teams on ancillary matters such as CQC, employment, healthcare, real estate, dispute resolution, Integrated Care Systems and the commissioning of primary care.

You may be based anywhere in England or Wales and, as well as being involved in our current work, you will be encouraged to create your own client base, probably locally to you.

Recent work of the team includes advice on:

• Partnership Deeds and disputes
• Practice incorporations
• Re-structuring GP federations to address the Health and Care Bill.
• Mergers and acquisitions of GP practices.
• Creation of super-partnerships.
• PCN network agreements.
• Incorporation of PCN service companies and sub-contracts.
• Software licence and management agreements.

The implications of the new Health and Care Bill focussing on the development of ICS statutory bodies and committees.  

You will join an established and ambitious wider corporate-commercial department of around 20 lawyers nationally, covering a range of specialisms:

• Contracts (software, manged services, clinical services, collaborations)
• Public procurement 
• Public law, governance, and statutory powers
• Corporate (start-ups, M&A, reorganisations and corporate finance) 
• Digital (IP, technology, data)
• Projects and construction 
• Charities and social enterprise

 Our lawyers appreciate the quality and variety of the projects we work on, and the level of interest and challenge they bring. We work collaboratively and strive to avoid silos, at the same time as encouraging people to play to their strengths. 

You will receive support but will not be shy of taking on new and complex work.

We are seeking candidates with 7 or more years PQE, who are, or aspire to become, a partner and have experience of encouraging, mentoring and motivating their team.

Skills and Competencies

You will have:

• Experience of:
  • Drafting and advising on Partnership Deeds
  •  incorporating companies and drafting bespoke articles of association and shareholders’ agreements.
  • advising companies and partnerships in primary care.
  • practice mergers, transfers and acquisitions .
  • PCN Network Agreements and advising on the DES Specifications.
• Experience of Partnership disputes would also be advantageous
• A knowledge of the relevant aspects of employment law, NHS pensions, data protection and primary care property would be advantageous.
• A strong teamwork ethos: we work with colleagues across all five offices.
• Excellent organisational skills and an appreciation of the need to comply with internal and client data security guidelines.
• An appreciation of the value our clients bring to society and our role in helping to achieve those goals.

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.

Hempsons is an agile firm and is open to discussions over flexible/hybrid working