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About
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.
Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care – NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector – to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
Head of Public Law- Corporate & Medicines
Closed for applications on: 9-Sept-2024 00:04
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 9-Sept-2024 00:04
Key details
Location
- Site
- London Wellington House or Leeds Wellington Place
- Town
- London/ Leeds
- Postcode
- SE18UG
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £83,571 - £96,376 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8d)
Specialty
- Main area
- Lawyer
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a band 8d Head of Domain in one of our 3 public law domains.
The Legal Team is a part of NHS England’s Delivery Directorate and provides legal advice, support and expertise to the whole organisation to promote good decision making, controls and accountability to Parliament and to deliver better outcomes for patients. We provide an accessible, high quality legal service that enables NHS England to comply with the law, manage legal risk, make effective decisions and demonstrate itself as being a well-run leader of the NHS. The team is made up of a number of sub/mini teams known as Domains, each specialising in a particular area of law. This role heads up the Public Law – Corporate and Medicines domain and requires a candidate who can demonstrate relevant public law skills and understanding as well as the ability to effectively lead a mini team.
In addition to leading the Domain, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic, wider team delivering an effective legal service supporting NHS England’s Board, committees, CEO, national and regional directors, directorates and teams to exercise NHS England’s statutory functions effectively, manage risk, respond to legal matters arising in a timely and accurate manner, and act lawfully at all times.
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The Head of Public Law – Corporate and Medicines is a key member of the Legal team, reporting into one of the Deputy Directors of Legal, and working closely, in particular, with the other two Heads of public law domains.
As Head of Domain, the individual is responsible for directly managing a team of lawyers, securing the provision of high-quality legal advice to NHS England in the areas within the domain’s remit and, in conjunction with other Heads of Domain and the Deputy Directors of Legal, supporting the leadership and management of the wider Legal Team.
The Public Law – Corporate and Medicines Domain undertakes a broad range of legal work with a particular specialism in the corporate activities of the organisation including internal governance, emergency preparedness and resilience, the interpretation of general statutory duties & functions, finance & pricing and medicines value & access (ie making available medicines for the NHS providers). The domain is also responsible for managing our team of property lawers . Candidates will need to demonstrate their experience in one or more of the public law areas and the ability to swiftly develop an expert knowledge of their wider portfolio to enable effective execution and oversight of the work of the Domain.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
The NHS is committed to building an inclusive personal, fair and diverse health and care system and a workplace where belonging, equity, diversity and inclusion are treasured. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main duties and responsibilities of the role are set out in the Job Description.
You will be responsible for advice (both personal and that of the domain) on the underpinning legislation for NHS England, to senior decision makers often personally and at pace, as well as maintaining and improving an agile advice service for others in the organisation. This frequently means having a fast, solution focus that is able to articulate risk and opportunity to facilitate informed and efficient decision making.
In addition to the provision and oversight of legal advice, the Head of Domain will have responsibility for:
· line managing the senior healthcare and healthcare lawyers in the domain;
· oversight of the work of the domain and domain outsourcing to external law firms;
· managing external legal advice and firms;
· meeting domain reporting requirements;
· securing the collation and analysis of domain data via our case management system to ensure continual improvement of legal advice and client care and that the organisation receives effective and value for money legal advice; and
· devising and implementing strategies to ensure the smooth and compliant running of the Domain in line with wider team requirements
Candidates for the role will need to be able demonstrate in depth knowledge of public law in a health setting, highly developed legal advisory and drafting skills, and the ability to provide senior decision makers with pragmatic, facilitative advice at pace in the context of NHS England’s legal landscape.
The role requires leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with political skills, and the ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
Candidates will also need the ability to make decisions autonomously and have sound judgment in absence of clear guidelines or precedent, the ability to work on own initiative, allocating work as necessary, and highly developed communication skills. You will need to work well with others and across boundaries, be able to rapidly build good relationships, and be positive and helpful, someone who listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others whilst making their own contributions to the Domain and wider team.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive with extensive post-qualification experience and educated educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Knowledge / experience
Essential criteria
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in relevant area of legal practice (i.e public law) but also with wider subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to healthcare and public law
- Extensive experience of providing legal services at a senior level to NHS or other public bodies at a senior level and experience of managing complex legal projects effectively
Desirable criteria
- Commercial/procurement experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed legal advisory and drafting skills
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
Values & behaviors
Essential criteria
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
Documents
- Head of Public Law - Corporate and Medicines (PDF, 496.6KB)
- Functional requirements (PDF, 67.8KB)
- Structure Chart (PDF, 101.4KB)
- NHSE - Verification of ID and RTW Guide (PDF, 306.6KB)
- Guide to Completing Your Application (DOCX, 42.7KB)
- Note for Existing NHS Employees applying for Fixed Term vacancies (DOCX, 26.2KB)
- Redundancy Clawback (PDF, 16.7KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalya Hoier
- Job title
- Deputy Director Legal
- Email address
- [email protected]
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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