Senior Lawyer

Make a difference

Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in the Legal Services Directorate that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it! As a Senior Lawyer, you’ll help ensure that CQC’s decisions are legally sound and support our mission to improve health and social care for everyone.

Picture this

Imagine leading a team of legal professionals who are passionate about making a difference, where your advice helps shape national policy and protect people’s rights.

In the last year as a Senior Lawyer, you might have:

• Led the legal response to a complex public law case, ensuring actions were fair, lawful, and in the public interest.
• Developed a new legal framework to support enforcement activity, helping frontline teams act swiftly and confidently.
• Supported the development of new or emerging policies or legislation.

The role

You’ll play an important part in delivering our mission. In this role, you’ll:

• Lead and develop a legal team: Provide coaching, supervision, and support to ensure high-quality legal advice across the organisation.
• Advise on legal matters: Offer clear, solutions-focused legal guidance on a wide range of issues, including policy development and public law.
• Shape legal strategy: Work with senior leaders to align legal priorities with CQC’s goals and ensure legal risks are identified and managed early.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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