NQ Healthcare Solicitor

JMC Legal Recruitment; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

JMC Legal Recruitment is seeking an NQ Solicitor for a specialised healthcare law team in Bournemouth. The role involves advising care providers on regulatory compliance, investigations, and sophisticated disputes under senior mentorship.

You will develop niche expertise in healthcare regulation, with exposure to CQC matters, Coroner’s Inquests, and complex due diligence from day one.

Qualifications

• NQ Solicitor ready to start your legal career in a specialised practice.
• Ideally you’ll have held a seat in care/healthcare.
• Excellent communication skills, empathy, and client care focus.
• Keen to develop expertise in a niche area and seek mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Regulatory defence in healthcare: CQC, CIW, Ofsted reports and enforcement actions.
• Criminal investigations and prosecutions involving healthcare providers.
• Representing clients in Coroner’s Inquests and safeguarding matters.
• Handling regulatory due diligence on care facilities and multi‑million acquisitions.
• Advising on contract disputes and Tribunal matters within healthcare.

Skills

NQ Solicitor

Healthcare law interest

Excellent communication

Client care focus

Job description

Healthcare Solicitor (NQ) | Bournemouth

A well‑regarded regional firm with a strong Healthcare practice is looking for an NQ Solicitor to join its Bournemouth office. You'll work within a niche team advising care homes, nursing homes, independent hospitals, children’s homes, and schools on complex regulatory, compliance, and dispute issues. Your role will involve advising care providers on CQC enforcement, defending criminal prosecutions, navigating Coroner’s Inquests, and handling regulatory due diligence on multi‑million‑pound acquisitions, all with proper mentorship from experienced specialists. This isn’t general practice. It’s sophisticated healthcare law, the kind of work that builds real expertise quickly, with the backing of experienced lawyers who genuinely want to develop the next generation.

The Firm & Practice

A respected regional practice with a recognised Healthcare team. The practice has built a genuine reputation advising major care providers nationally on complex regulatory matters. They’re known for quality work, strategic thinking, and deep sector expertise.

The Work

You’ll be exposed to a genuinely broad range of sophisticated healthcare matters:

• Regulatory defence: representing providers in challenging CQC, CIW, or Ofsted inspection reports, enforcement action, and Tribunal appeals
• Criminal investigations and prosecutions: advising on PACE interviews, representing clients through prosecution by CQC, HSE, Fire Authority, Environmental Health, or Police
• Coroner’s Inquests: representing healthcare providers and professionals in inquests throughout England
• Contract disputes: local authority and CCG contractual matters, disputes with residents, Court of Protection cases
• Safeguarding investigations: advising on complex safeguarding issues
• Professional misconduct: representing clients in hearing disputes and barred list challenges
• Regulatory due diligence: acquisitions, sales, refinancing of care facilities, day schools, children’s homes, independent special schools, fostering agencies
• Public law: judicial review proceedings within the care sector

This is work that requires real understanding of healthcare regulation, genuine client relationships, and strategic thinking. You’ll learn fast.

You

• NQ Solicitor ready to start your legal career in a specialised practice, ideally you’ll have held a seat in care/healthcare, although those with the right values, attributes and mindset for this type of role will also be considered
• Strong academic background and genuine interest in healthcare law
• Excellent communication skills, empathy, and client care focus
• Keen to develop expertise in a niche area
• Looking for mentorship from experienced specialists

What’s On Offer

• Work within a niche practice with genuine reputation and expertise
• Mentorship from experienced healthcare lawyers who actually invest in development
• Varied, sophisticated caseload from day one (with proper support and supervision)
• Exposure to regulatory defence, criminal law, Tribunals, due diligence
• Opportunity to build real expertise quickly in a growing sector
• Work with major care providers and high‑value matters
• Competitive NQ salary and comprehensive benefits package
• Professional development support including sector training and networking
• Access to specialists across the firm with exposure to multi‑disciplinary work
• Bournemouth location with good quality of life

Why This Works

Healthcare law is growing. And it requires genuine expertise to navigate successfully. This firm has built a leading practice because they understand the sector deeply.

As an NQ, you’ll work on genuinely interesting, sophisticated matters, not just supporting work or processing templates. That’s development done properly. You’ll learn regulatory compliance, litigation strategy, and sector expertise under the mentorship of experienced healthcare lawyers who’ve built genuine reputations.

The work is meaningful too. You’ll be helping care providers navigate complex regulation, defending them against enforcement action, and supporting them through difficult investigations. It matters.

If you want an NQ role with real substance, genuine mentorship, and the chance to develop expertise in a niche, respected practice, this is it.