Job Title: Legal Counsel
Location: Home Based, UK
Salary: £60k-£67k + bonus
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week Mon-Fri
Right to live and work within the UK is required for this role.
- Due to the Christmas break, applications will be reviewed across the month of December with interviews likely taking place WC 12th January.*
Role Summary
Optima Health PLC, an AIM listed entity, is recognised as the UK's leading provider of B2B healthcare and wellbeing solutions in the workplace. In recent years, Optima Health PLC has experienced significant organic and inorganic growth taking reported revenues to circa £105m in FY 25.
To support this exciting period of growth and continued innovation, the legal function at Optima Health PLC is expanding. We are recruiting a qualified Solicitor with over 2 years PQE to join our Group Legal function as Legal Counsel. This is a brand-new role that has been created to play a key part in supporting and shaping how legal services are delivered across Optima Health PLC and its group entities. Working closely with the Head of Legal and the wider team, this role is ideal for someone who wants to make a meaningful impact, bringing fresh ideas to influence how a growing organisation manages legal risk. The successful candidate will play an active role in helping to build, develop and implement technology-enabled scalable processes within the legal function from the ground up.
In addition to helping shape the direction of the legal function, this is a hands-on, commercially focused role with a broad and varied remit. You will collaborate with teams across the business to provide clear, pragmatic advice on commercial contracts and complex legal matters impacting an occupational health provider.
Given the diversity of the work spanning areas such as public procurement, IT service contracts, company law, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, and broader commercial operations. This role offers exceptional development opportunities and would suit someone who is looking to take the next step and develop their knowledge in different areas with a collaborative team and supportive Head of Legal. As this is a new position, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to utilise their experience gained to date to inform the overall direction of the legal function and to inform best practice in these areas.
If you are an innovative contributor, have a willingness to learn and want to join a collaborative legal team that is embracing technologies to work symbiotically with our ever-augmenting business at Optima Health PLC then we want to hear from you.
Main Duties And Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts, including customer agreements, supplier terms, and service-level agreements.
- Advise on contract interpretation, risk mitigation, and legal implications of business decisions.
- Collaborate with internal teams including Business Development, Procurement, Contract Managers, Operations and Finance to provide pragmatic legal advice.
- Contribute to the development of legal templates and internal training to improve legal awareness across the business.
- Managing and maintaining the appropriate control and storage of the company's contractual agreements with customers; suppliers and other third parties.
- Support the business on bids and tenders, ensuring legal compliance and advising on risks.
- Assisting with legal aspects of corporate activities with external counsel including taking ownership of due diligence and documentation.
- Supporting with legal disputes including breach of contract, intellectual property infringement and other commercial conflicts consulting with external counsel as and when required.
- Assisting the team with logging and responding to Data Protection incidents in a timely manner.
Essential
Experience, Skills, and Knowledge Required for the Role:
- Qualified solicitor holding a practicing certificate with at least 2 years PQE as either an in-house or private practice solicitor. Other levels of PQE will be considered providing the candidate has the requisite desired experience.
- Proven experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts.
- Commercially minded with the ability to balance legal risk and business needs.
Desired
- Experience of building and implementing technology-enabled processes to contribute to in-house ways-of-working.
- A working knowledge of TUPE and how it interacts with outsourcing contracts.
- An appreciation of the principles of Data Protection and IT security practices.
- Experience with Company Law including company secretarial practices as required by an AIM quoted company and other private limited entities.
- Knowledge of public procurement law both pre and post 2023 together with procurement processed used by the Government, the NHS, and commercial organisations.
- Operational knowledge of the High Court Technology Court and inquests processes.
- Experience gained in working within the Healthcare Sector including in occupational health, employee assistance programs talking therapies.
- Experience of managing and liaising on commercial property transactions with external third parties.
What Can We Offer You?
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Buy and sell holiday scheme
- Pension scheme
- HealthCash Plan
- Career progression opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care test vouchers
- Flu vaccination scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Life assurance
- Professional registrations fees paid
- Clinical Training Academy
About Us
Optima Health are the UK market leader of Occupational Health and Wellbeing services. Our heritage can be traced back to 1947 where we were pioneers in the provision of Occupational Health and have led the way ever since, bringing new and innovative solutions to employers across the UK. We can offer unrivalled clinical expertise and industry leading tailored solutions to our clients. We work with over two thousand businesses, in various industries, and our aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of the UK workforce by supporting healthy high performance in our client organisations, helping them to achieve their full potential through their people.
Optima Health not only provide an excellent package, but we also offer a structured induction and training programme in your first few weeks. We offer tailored career development and opportunities for further training and qualifications, to support you in your career journey. We are committed to making this a really great place to work, so together, we live by our values; We are one team, we do the right thing, we are shaping tomorrow, and we are never too big to care.
Optima Health is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants meeting the minimum criteria for the role will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, gender or gender expression, disability, race or ethnicity, religion or belief or sexual orientation.
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Documents
- JD0507 Legal Counsel.pdf (106.80 KB)
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