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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. Our aim is to provide outstanding legal services that deliver the best possible client outcomes in our chosen sectors, whilst nurturing a distinctive team culture that makes us a great place to work.

The Team

Our sectors

We are an established and ambitious corporate-commercial department of around 20 lawyers nationally. We focus on:

NHS – national and regional NHS organisations and collaborations
Healthcare corporate - dental and social care corporates and investors
Primary care – GP partnerships, federations, provider organisations, PCNs etc.
Social care – public, independent and third sector providers
Independent healthcare - providers and suppliers
Charities and social enterprises
Our team skills and workstreams

Contracts (including outsourcing and joint ventures)
Public procurement (contentious and non-contentious)
Public law, governance, and statutory powers (including judicial reviews)
Corporate (start-ups, M&A, reorganisations and corporate finance)
Partnerships
Digital (IP, technology, data)
Projects and construction
Charities and social enterprise
Commercial dispute resolution

Current opportunities for junior commercial lawyers

We have interesting (and busy) opportunities for adaptable and collaborative candidates with a particular interest in:

Primary care
Contracts and Procurement
Projects and Construction
The broad scope of the work that we do will mean that successful candidates will have scope to develop their roles in line with their own areas of expertise and interest (for example construction, public procurement, digital, IT), whilst working collaboratively with the wider corporate-commercial team.

Skills and Competencies

You will have relevant or transferable experience, a strong teamwork ethos and excellent organisational skills.

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