In-house Legal Counsel - Contract Law
About the Role
We are a market leader in our industry, committed to growth, compliance, and strategic expansion. We are looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to join our team and to provide comprehensive legal support to the business.
As our Legal Counsel you will be responsible for providing legal support to AML and its associated companies. This role you will be ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, mitigating risks, and facilitating informed commercial decisions.
The position requires you to have a deep understanding of corporate law, exceptional negotiation skills, and the ability to manage multiple legal projects simultaneously.
Required Skills and Experience
· Background: commercial lawyer with in-house experience, ideally in healthcare
· Public procurement experience – preferably dealing with NHS contracting
· Experience of compliance to include Modern Slavery, Bribery, Data Protection and associated policies and implementation within a business
· Self-starter, with strong work ethic
· Extremely commercial, with ability to add real value to the business
· Strong commercial contract drafting skills, with high attention to detail
· Qualified and experienced solicitor with solid post qualification experience (PQE likely to be c.4-6 years, but all candidates will be considered on merit)
· Solid experience in providing legal advice to a commercial business.
· Strong negotiator, experienced in turning commercial HoTs into contracts, identifying and allocating risks.
· Excellent drafting skills and experience of complex services agreements
· Previous experience of public procurement and where possible with the NHS.
· Awareness of property issues and the link to the commercial contract.
· Previous experience in dealing with healthcare licensing authorities such as CQC/MHRA/Environment Agency is preferred.
· Experience of litigation and disputes.
· IT literate.
About Alliance Medical
Alliance Medical are Europe’s leading independent provider of imaging services.
We combine service excellence and innovative imaging technologies to improve patient care and support NHS and independent organisations with their ongoing imaging requirements. Our approach has delivered consistent company growth for more than 30 years.
We operate a robust pre-employment screening process for all roles which includes proof of professional registration and qualifications, DBS checking and occupational health assessments.
We live by our company values to ensure the highest level of patient care:
Our Values
Leaders, managers, and supervisors have a particular responsibility to be role models in terms of how they demonstrate these values themselves and how they engage their teams to work in this way.
Collaboration:
We work together and in partnership for all our patients. We respect expertise and combine it to achieve more.
Excellence:
We never compromise. We strive to deliver the very best in everything we do to ensure the highest quality of care. We treat our patients and each other with compassion, dignity and respect.
Learning:
Knowledge and understanding comes from learning. At Alliance Medical we are committed to ensuring that each and every one of us keeps on learning and that we continuously look for improved ways of working.
Efficiency:
Efficiency in healthcare means more patients get better care. We constantly seek new ways to use the scarce resource of healthcare more intelligently so that more people can live longer, fuller lives.
Openness:
We act with transparency and honesty in everything we do, where staff are encouraged to speak up to ensure a safe and secure environment for our patients.