Health & Care Regulatory Paralegal

Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers

Our Health & Care: Regulatory team provides advice and support to health, social care, education and housing organisations across the public and independent sector.

We are a team of over 60 colleagues operating out of all four of our offices. We take pride in providing high-quality support to our clients which is clear, user-friendly and responsive. We are able to work flexibly and are open to discussions about alternative working patterns.

The team's services include management of complex litigation in the Court of Protection, human rights, inquests, mental health, safeguarding, patient safety, serious incident response, complaints and disputes, HSE/CQC inspection and enforcement, education, children law & challenges to decision-making within health and social care.

The Role

Our Health & Care: Regulatory team has an exciting opportunity for a Paralegal to join our team in either Bristol, Birmingham or Leeds, with flexible, hybrid working. This role will involve supporting lawyers who are advising a variety of clients on a range of healthcare and regulatory legal issues. You will be supporting fee earners with large, complex case matters, and you will also manage a small case load of your own.

What we can offer:

• Involvement in a range of interesting work
• Client facing work on a day-to-day basis
• Excellent training and supervision
• A collaborative and supportive team ethos

What we are looking for from you

• An interest in developing a career in health and social care law with some education law;
• An ability to work confidently and effectively with others, clients and colleagues alike
• Technical excellence, organised, lateral thinker with an eye for detail;
• Enthusiasm to develop legal skills and a willingness to take on challenges;
• Team player, with the temperament to form strong and sustained working partnerships
• Practical and commercial approach
• Ideally, prior experience of working in a Paralegal role
• Prior exposure to health & care work is also desirable

Make a Real Impact

Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors.

Supported by valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams work together to support almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we’re part of.

Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2023/24 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for an eleventh consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.

As a firm we embrace our differences, we act responsibly, now and for the future and we support you to be your best through our hybrid working model and professional development opportunities.

Looking to the future, we’re targeting ambitious growth and success. And we’re looking for the best people to be part of it.