Head of Legal in Central London

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Job Summary

Salary: Competitive, Depending on Experience

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm

Location: 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW

Contract: Full-Time & Permanent

What are we looking for?
Reporting directly to Director, Legal & Practice Group Chair, International in the Cleveland Clinic Law Department based in the United States, the Head of Legal for Cleveland Clinic London (CCL) will act as the sole London-based legal counsel providing legal advice and oversight across Cleveland Clinic London activities, supported by the enterprise-wide Cleveland Clinic Law and Compliance Departments as well as local external legal counsel as required. The role has close working relationships with all members of the CCL Executive Team and includes a dotted line reporting relationship to the Chief Commercial Officer at CCL.

What makes us different?
Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, \’Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve\’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.

What will your duties include?

• Act as first point of contact for CCL Executive Team and wider CCL leadership team, providing timely and business-focused advice on all legal matters, including:
  • Strategic projects and transactions
  • Regulatory (including CMA, CQC and GMC)
  • Healthcare matters
  • Data protection
  • Employment
  • Corporate and charity governance
  • Disputes (including patient complaints, inquests, pending/threatened/actual litigation) and general contractual matters.
• Triage and deal with or direct requests for legal support from across the organisation, including clinical, commercial, compliance, finance, HR, information governance and cybersecurity, operations and strategy teams.
• Ensure that timely responses are provided to requests for legal advice
• Input into various internal committees, including the compliance committee and conflict of interest committee
• Provide supervision, advice, mentoring and guidance to other members of the US-based Cleveland Clinic Law Department working on CCL matters and matters of English law. Delegate matters as appropriate.
• Participate in budget processes for CCL and manage outside counsel on CCL matters in the most cost-effective manner possible.
• Maintain expertise in relevant subject matter areas. Advise and train appropriate members of the Cleveland Clinic Law Department on legal developments impacting CCL and actively seek out opportunities to ensure compliance with those areas of the law.

What we need from you?

• Qualified lawyer in the UK with a strong academic background
• License to practice law must be from England and Wales, or from a jurisdiction that permits the ability to practice in England and Wales, coupled with at least 5 years of actual experience practicing in England and Wales
• Experience in healthcare regulatory law with broad generalist experience is essential
• At least ten years\’ post-qualification experience is essential
• Strong legal skills are essential, including drafting, negotiation, executive-level communication, and project management
• Previous in-house experience in a UK private healthcare setting is strongly preferred
• Experience in UK employment and charity law is desirable

What can we offer you?
As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers – alongside a range of benefits, including:

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Double-matched salary exchange pension – contribute 5% and we\’ll contribute 10%
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Wellbeing Hub with mental health, coaching and EAP support
• Earned Wage Access – get early access to part of your pay when needed
• Access to discounts on food, retail, and more

Who we are?
Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.
With over 100 years of history, our \”Patients First\” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.
If you would like to know more, please email .

Applicant shortlisting and interviews may take place whilst the advert is live, so it may close sooner than expected – please submit your application as soon as possible. Due to the volume of applications, we are not always able to provide individual feedback.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

\”Let\’s deliver World Class care together!\”
As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.
CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.