Employment Partner (Healthcare) in Birmingham

We are seeking an experienced Employment Lawyer to join our dynamic and highly regarded national Healthcare Team — a circa 35-strong group recognised for its depth of expertise and collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach. This is a rare opportunity to play a key role in shaping and growing a specialist employment law offering within a Top 50 UK law firm, supporting a diverse and established healthcare client base. Our clients span independent healthcare providers, dental practices, veterinary groups, and adult and children’s social care organisations, alongside a broad range of other operators across the health and care sector. Our healthcare team is already well-established, advising on corporate, regulatory, real estate, and wider sector-specific matters. We are now looking to expand our employment capability to deliver a truly integrated, full-service offering to our clients — making this an excellent platform for an ambitious and entrepreneurial lawyer.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise healthcare sector clients on the full spectrum of employment law issues, with a strong emphasis on corporate respondent work.
• Support clients on HR advisory matters, TUPE, restructures, workforce strategy, senior exits, and disciplinary and grievance matters.
• Lead on and manage employment tribunal claims.
• Work closely with colleagues across corporate, regulatory, and real estate teams to deliver seamless, sector-focused advice.
• Play a central role in developing and growing the healthcare employment practice, identifying opportunities within an existing client base.
• Contribute to the team’s sector profile through business development, thought leadership, and attendance at key healthcare industry events.

About You

• A qualified solicitor with significant experience advising healthcare clients on employment law matters.
• A strong understanding of the commercial and regulatory landscape affecting healthcare providers.
• A demonstrable track record in business development, with an existing network or following within the healthcare sector highly desirable.
• Commercially minded, proactive, and confident in identifying and leading on new opportunities.
• A collaborative approach, with the ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Why Join Us

This is a career-defining opportunity to take a leading role in developing a key growth area within a well-established, nationally recognised healthcare team. You’ll benefit from:

• A strong, existing healthcare client base with immediate opportunity for employment support work.
• A genuinely collaborative, cross-practice team structure.
• The platform of a Top 50 UK law firm with clear strategic investment in the healthcare sector.
• The autonomy and support to build your own practice within a high-performing, ambitious team.

Benefits of working with us:

• Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance
• Sight tests / Glasses discounts
• Car Loans
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Bonus scheme
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Life Assurance
• 1/3 gym membership contribution
• Flu vaccinations

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.

HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With ten offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons resulted in a full service regional hub being established in the heart of the Waterside innovation area centre of Northampton. Our London and Cambridge continue to grow apace.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients.

If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.