Senior Lawyer – Inquires Team

Make a difference

Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in Legal Services that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it.

As a Senior Lawyer in the Inquires Team, you'll help ensure CQC responds effectively to public inquiries, supporting better outcomes across health and social care.

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You'll work at the heart of important decisions, providing practical legal advice that helps CQC respond to high-profile inquiries and investigations, ensuring important lessons are identified and acted upon. You'll collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to solve complex challenges, manage legal risks, and shape effective legal solutions.

As a Senior Lawyer, you might:

• Get the chance to work on CQC's response to a major public inquiry or independent investigation, helping identify legal risks and supporting complex casework that informs organisational learning.
• Help shape strategic legal solutions that influence how CQC respond effectively to emerging issues across health and social care sectors.

The role

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

• Lead and support a legal team: Manage, coach and develop legal professionals, helping them deliver high-quality advice and services across CQC.
• Provide expert legal guidance: Deliver practical, solutions-focused legal advice across CQC, support inquiry proceedings where required, helping colleagues and leaders make informed legally-robust decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement: Monitor legal trends, review team performance, build strong relationships, and use feedback and learning to drive improvement in legal services and support organisational priorities.

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)

Please apply on CQC's job page using the link at the bottom of the page.

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