Senior Advisory Lawyer

General Dental Council; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 69,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

A regulatory body for dental professionals in London seeks a Senior Advisory Lawyer to provide expert legal advice and ensure public safety in dental services. This role requires a qualified solicitor with experience in regulatory law, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to manage risks effectively. This fixed-term, full-time position offers a salary range of £69,489 - £81,752, flexible hybrid work arrangements, and generous benefits, including up to 30 days annual leave.

Benefits

27 days holiday, rising to 30 after 2 years

Flexi-time scheme

Employer pension contributions up to 10%

Enhanced leave policies

Life assurance and income protection plan

Staff discounts for eye care and gym memberships

Qualifications

• Experience working within a statutory, regulatory or similar framework.
• Proven ability to identify and manage risk.
• Demonstrable commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice to GDC colleagues and Registrar.
• Advise on statutory decision-making functions.
• Manage legal challenges from Fitness to Practise decisions.
• Identify and monitor areas of risk within the GDC.
• Support the delivery of the Costed Corporate Plan.

Skills

Excellent drafting and legal analytical skills

Ability to manage competing priorities

Proven ability to create strong working relationships

Experience in regulatory or public law

Education

Qualified solicitor, barrister or ILEX qualified

Job description

Overview

Senior Advisory Lawyer
Salary: £69,489 - £81,752 pa
Location: London/ Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Hours: Full time
Contract: Fixed term for 12 months (with potential to extend to 18 months)
Location: London

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a wide ranging legal advisory post, where you will use your legal expertise to make a real impact, maintaining public confidence in dental services and protecting the safety of patients.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Advisory Lawyer, you will play a leading role at the General Dental Council - providing legal advice, guidance, direction and instructions to support proportionate and risk-based decision-making. You will advise on matters that fall within the remit of the In-House Legal Advisory Service, keep up to date with changes to case law and help to ensure processes reflect best practice and the GDC s regulatory strategy. In addition to being a source of professional legal and regulation expertise, the post holder will provide legal advice across the work of the wider team and supervise junior colleagues in so doing.

• Provide accurate, timely and risk-based legal advice to GDC colleagues and the Registrar on matters that fall within the remit of the In-House Legal Advisory Service.
• Provide advice to the Registrar on the exercise of their statutory decision-making functions, including Interim Order, Voluntary Removal, Rule 9 and Rule 6E applications.
• Give advice in relation to and have conduct of legal challenges arising from Fitness to Practise decisions.
• Take a pro-active approach to identify, monitor and escalate (as appropriate), areas of risk within the GDC, collaborating with colleagues to develop mitigation and proposed solutions, including via the relevant quality assurance processes.
• Support the organisation s delivery of the Costed Corporate Plan and Corporate Strategy by providing legal advice and proactively identifying opportunities for development and different ways of working, reviewing legislative proposals, and working with colleagues in other teams to assess risks and opportunities.

About you

• A qualified and practising solicitor or barrister or ILEX qualified (essential), with experience of working within a statutory, regulatory or similar framework, in one or more of the following areas: regulatory, public, information, commercial, litigation or criminal law.
• Excellent drafting and legal analytical skills with the ability to analyse complex legal issues and present legally sound, risk-based and proportionate advice and instructions.
• Proven ability to identify, manage and escalate risk, within established organisational risk frameworks.
• Demonstrable ability to manage competing priorities, working flexibly with colleagues and clients to manage fluctuating workloads.
• Proven ability to create strong working relationships at all levels of the GDC and with external stakeholders, ensuring trust and confidence in the advice provided.
• Demonstrable commitment to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

The GDC is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, that provides an environment that reflects our values and culture and allows employees to flourish.

To support this, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, including flexible working arrangements from day one and employee networks that aid growth and development.

Some of our benefits include:

• 27 days holiday (plus statutory) - rising to 30 days after 2 years service
• Flexi-time scheme
• Employer pension contributions up to 10%
• Buy/Sell annual leave
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave from 1 years service.
• Life assurance, income protection plan and enhanced sick leave policy
• Staff discounts including eye care contributions and discounted gym membership.

We encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and career development of people from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.

How to apply

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Closing date: 23:59 on 12 October 2025

Please note that we reserve the right to bring this recruitment campaign to an end before the closing date without notice, and we encourage all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.