Legal Manager

Legal Manager
Salary: Grade A - £52,737 to £63,045 (National Framework) or £58,139 to £68,447 (London Framework –if you are London office based or home-based and live within the boundary of the M25). There is also an
additional 5% supervisory allowance for this role and a homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Contract: 12 month fixed term contract or secondment opportunity
Location: Office-based (Leeds or London) or home-based
Closing date: Thursday 14th March 2024 at 11.59pm

About Us
We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England. Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well as well as encouraging improvements and taking action over poorer care, where necessary. One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality
Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network. Our Governance and Legal Services Teams provide us with essential legal support and advice, enabling us to accomplish our duties and focus on achieving our aims of ensuring the best health and social care is
provided across England. We are now looking for a Legal Manager to join us on a full-time basis for a twelve-month fixed term contract.

The Benefits
- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
- Discounted gym vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
- Equipment for homeworking

Why this could be a great role for you
This is the perfect opportunity for a qualified Solicitor or Barrister with a superb leadership style and experience of managing a legal team to take on a meaningful role. Your expertise will support our work to ensure the health and care sectors are safe and compliant and we are equipped to prevent individuals or organisations from causing harm.

What’s more, you’ll be advancing your career, developing your leadership skillset, and supplementing your experience with our critical mission.
So, if you’re ready to hone your legal expertise and make a real difference, read on and apply.

What you will bring…

To be considered as a Legal Manager, you will need:
- To be a qualified Solicitor, Barrister or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, entitled to practice in England and Wales
- Post-qualification experience
- Proven experience of managing a qualified legal team
- Advocacy experience
- Experience of managing caseloads, advising on legal matters, and managing enforcement activity
- Experience of analysing risk and benefit within a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication, presentation and engagement skills with the ability to present complex information in an accessible format
- Highly effective networking and relationship-building skills

What you’ll be doing
As our Legal Manager, you will manage a team of legal professionals, ensuring they deliver sound legal advice across our organisation.
Specifically, you will oversee the provision of legal advice to Directorates and ensure that our activity aligns with relevant legislation.
Leading our Transformation Legal team, you will ensure that our new ways of working and our transformation programme are in accordance with the legal requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and the Mental Health Act, among other regulations. Our transformation programme is focused upon reviewing and renewing our regulatory approach, involving health and care service providers, the public and other stakeholders in developing our work. As this will have legal ramifications, this role will be vital in delivering our transformation programme as a whole.

Additionally, you will:
- Work closely with heads of department in the delivery of work
- Ensure that resources are deployed to critical areas
- Make sure that support is available for case work
- Provide legal advice and guidance
- Offer innovative solutions to complex challenges

Next steps
If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team or include a note in your application.

We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation. So, if you’d like to join us as a Legal Manager please apply via the button shown.

Other organisations may call this role Senior Legal Counsel, Senior In-House Counsel, Senior Solicitor, Lead Solicitor, Group Legal Manager, Legal Research Contract Manager, Legal Support Manager, Legal Officer, In-House Legal Counsel, or Legal Counsel.