Bevan Brittan is a leading
commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing,
local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in
the construction, energy and resource management, higher education
and financial services sectors.
Supported by our valued business
services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams
provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate,
property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial
and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.
As a responsible business, we
embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and
Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the
decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they
motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the
communities that we're part of.
Consistently recognised as one of
The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal
directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2023/24
financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for an
eleventh consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue
investing in our people.
Looking to the future, we're
targeting ambitious growth and success. And we're looking for the
best people to be part of it.
Join a team of experts and
progressive thinkers
The team
With four of our eleven partners ranked
Band 1 in Chambers and Partners including two of our six specialist
employment health and care partners, our Employment, Pensions and
Immigration team continues to be a market leader for legal services
to health and care as well as to local government.Our national Employment, Pensions and
Business Immigration team is recognised as a Chambers and Legal 500
Top Tier Employment Team. Chambers and Partners 2025 ranks Bevan
Brittan as one of only three firms at Band 1 for Employment:
Employer: Healthcare and we have the most Band 1 ranked lawyers in
this area.
Alongside our established reputation in
these markets, the team continues to grow its profile and client
base in some of our emerging markets including the insurance and
finance, commercial, higher education and housing sectors.
The team operates on a truly national
basis, providing our lawyers with the opportunity to work with a
variety of colleagues and clients. Acting mainly for employers, our
roster of clients includes national and multi-national
organisations, and we support them to improve their employment
practices and manage workforce issues, as well as defending
employment claims and seeking to mitigate risks for clients. We act
alongside our complementary multi-disciplinary teams such as
information law, commercial and regulatory teams.
Bevan Brittan has strong recognition in
the independent legal directories - Chambers & Partners and
Legal 500. In both guides we are consistently ranked in the top tier
for our practices across the UK, with multiple individuals
recognised as leading lawyers.
"Bevan Brittan is widely
renowned for delivering expert employment advice and support to
public and private healthcare organisations across the country.
The firm is adept at handling highly sensitive disputes including
complex High Court and tribunal cases […] assisting clients with
employment issues relating to shared services agreements and
partnerships [and] workplace culture issues, including
whistle-blowing, bullying and discrimination" -
Chambers & Partners, 2025
The role
We are looking for a Senior Associate to
join us, based in our Bristol, Birmingham or Leeds office (with
flexible hybrid working), ideally with good transactional expertise
and health and care advisory experience.
As a member of the national employment
healthcare practice the primary focus of your role will be
supporting the healthcare partner leads, across our substantial
health and care practice, including the NHS, as well as independent
healthcare organisations and operators within care and the voluntary
sector. As part of this, you would also work with other members of
the team, as well as part of multi-disciplinary teams across the
firm, providing employment support on a variety of transactions and deals.
Building relationships, both externally
with our clients and across our internal teams, is key. In this
role, you will have the opportunity to work with regulatory and
commercial healthcare colleagues to ensure a joined up,
multi-disciplinary approach. You will ideally have some experience
of the NHS workforce and contractual frameworks and, some strong
TUPE and transactional experience in supporting clients with, for
example, mergers, acquisitions or in/outsourcing and on workforce
aspects of other commercial deals. You will also ideally have some
experience of advising independent healthcare providers and
operators within the care sector.
In this role, you will have the
opportunity to advise independent health and care providers on a
variety of high profile, fast paced and ground-breaking matters,
plus emerging trends and issues for the sector. You will work
collaboratively with the wider Bevan Brittan teams including CQC
regulatory, corporate and commercial healthcare, compliance, health
and safety and information governance.
Bevan Brittan enjoys a long-standing
relationship with the Independent Healthcare Providers Network,
having sponsored its Annual Summit every year.This role also provides significant
opportunity for business development and networking with key
stakeholders in the independent health and care sector.
You will also have the opportunity to
support clients in the other sectors in which we work and across a
variety of work-types from transactional, to advisory support, to
contentious work. The depth and breadth of the markets in which we
operate will provide the opportunity and flexibility to work on
novel and complex employment law issues.
With your skill and expertise, it is
envisaged that you would:
Manage your own matters with relatively
limited supervisory support and delegate to juniors
Work with and support a number of our
partner leads and colleagues across all 4 of our offices
Provide management and supervisory
support to junior colleagues
Support on training and client
relationship management
You would be supervising and advising on a
range of employment work-types, but also delivering training,
supporting and managing client relationships and supporting business development.
What we are looking for from you
The successful candidate will be involved
in providing sound, commercial employment advice and would ideally
have some or all of the following skill set/experience:
A broad range of employment experience,
ideally gained across one or more of our key markets, including
health and care (NHS or independent), financial services, general
commercial, higher education, and/or housing
Strong TUPE experience including
drafting/negotiating related warranties and indemnities and
advising on workforce aspects of commercial transactions,
including information and consultation processes
Undertaking transactional due diligence,
often as part of a wider corporate or commercial transaction with
multidisciplinary teams
Advising on restructures/redundancy processes
Advising on employee relations issues
including settlement negotiations
Reviewing/drafting policies
Contractual advice; experience in
advising on NHS terms and conditions desirable but not essential
Experience in advising independent
healthcare providers on engagement models for clinicians and
Practising Privileges desirable but not essential
Delivering training and actively
contributing towards business development activities
Litigation and/or advocacy experience is
welcome but not essential
Supervision of junior colleagues
Good client management skills and an
interest in business development
We offer a structured career pathway to
meet both your and our needs.
Work with approachable people
When we ask colleagues what makes
Bevan Brittan a great place to work, the most popular thing they say
is "the people". The overwhelming consensus is that we
make time for each other. We welcome questions and support each
other. Naturally, we look for new colleagues who align with our
values.
Supported to be your best
Hybrid working
We operate a hybrid working model based on the needs of our clients,
teams and people. Our core business hours are 9am - 5:15pm Monday to
Friday, but we're open to our people working more flexibly around
those times and welcome a conversation with you if you have any
questions about this. We try to offer you the flexibility to work your
week in a way that suits you.
Learning, Development & Progression
We're committed to supporting your professional and personal
development needs.This means that we offer a range of tailored
training courses and you will have lots of opportunity to learn from
those around you. We actively encourage progression and this is
reflected in our annual review and promotion processes. You will be
supported by your line manager to achieve your full potential.
Wellbeing
As a Bevan Brittan employee, you'll have access to a variety of
services that support your wellbeing. We've pledged our commitment to
The Mindful Business Charter and lots of our people contribute to our
Wellbeing Responsible Business strand, which organises an annual
calendar of wellbeing events and initiatives.
Benefits
A minimum of 25 days holiday
(plus the option to buy up to an additional 5 days)
Discretionary bonus scheme
Generous pension scheme
Private medical insurance
through Vitality
Biennial private health
assessment through Nuffield Health
Life assurance
Access to Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to work scheme
Embracing our differences and
valuing inclusion
Our shared aim is that everyone is welcome and can feel comfortable being themselves at
Bevan Brittan. To support this, we actively value and promote
equality, diversity and inclusion in everything that we do. You'll be
empowered and supported through our employee led networks, diverse
colleagues, and a broad range of firmwide initiatives.
Recognising the unique contributions that a diverse workforce can
bring to our business, we encourage applications from people of all
backgrounds. We take great pride in being a Disability Confident
Employer. If you need any adjustments throughout the recruitment
process or have any questions, please get in touch with our
recruitment team by emailing recruitment@bevanbrittan.com
Acting responsibly, now and for
the future
To us, being a responsible business is second nature; a core part of
Bevan Brittan's identity. Our colleagues are heavily involved in
shaping and delivering activity across the four pillars of our Responsible
Business strategy: Community Engagement; Environmental
Sustainability; Equality, Diversity & Inclusion; and Wellbeing.
Our people deliver pro bono legal work for charities and
not-for-profit organisations. We play an active role in our local
communities and donated £100,000 across our four regional office
charities last year. We are also proudly carbon neutral. We've
achieved the UN's Climate Neutral Now accreditation and our
environmental sustainability plan focuses on achieving our net zero
carbon target by 2040.
Collectively, the four pillars ensure we look after our colleagues'
wellbeing; offer an environment in which everyone can progress on
merit, give something back to the communities in which we work; and
protect the environment.
