Partner in Birmingham

We are seeking an experienced Employment Lawyer with a wealth of experience in the healthcare sector to join our dynamic and highly regarded national Healthcare Team. This is a unique opportunity to work with a diverse range of healthcare clients — including independent healthcare providers, dental practices, veterinary groups, adult and children’s social care organisations, and more. You'll be part of a leading multi-disciplinary team in a Top 60 UK law firm, known for its deep sector expertise. While our current healthcare practice is focused on corporate, regulatory, and real estate matters, we’re now looking to expand our current employment law offering to complement and strengthen the services we provide to our healthcare clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise healthcare sector clients on all aspects of employment law, with a focus on corporate respondent work.
• Handle matters including HR support, TUPE, disciplinary and grievance issues, employment tribunal claims, restructures, senior exits, and workforce strategy.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in the healthcare corporate, real estate, and regulatory teams to deliver holistic client solutions.
• Build and develop the employment law practice within the healthcare team — a fantastic opportunity for someone entrepreneurial and driven.
• Play a proactive role in business development, including attending sector events, contributing to thought leadership, and helping to grow the team’s profile in the market.

About You:

• A qualified solicitor with significant experience advising healthcare clients on employment law matters.
• A proven track record of business development, ideally with an existing network or following within the healthcare sector.
• Confident, commercially minded, and capable of identifying and seizing new opportunities within the market.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills to work effectively across teams and with clients.

This is a career-defining opportunity to take the lead in shaping a growing area of work within a well-established, supportive team structure.

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.

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.