Legal Advisor

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Legal Advisor to provide comprehensive legal advice and support across a charity. This role involves ensuring compliance with legislation and sector best practice, and advising directors and senior leadership on regulatory and compliance matters.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Manage a caseload of commercial property matters, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts and leases.
• Conduct legal due diligence and title investigations.
• Provide practical, commercially focused legal advice.
• Advise on the legal risk and potential mitigations in commercial relationships with suppliers including tenders, contracts, and disputes.
• Update and manage the contract management database.
• Provide professional legal advice and support in relation to all property transactions and miscellaneous property issues.
• Support and advise internal teams in relation to major property projects.
• Deal with all aspects of the acquisitions, renewals, disposals of the charity’s retail shops when dealt with in-house and overseeing transactions when outsourced.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial and non-commercial contracts.
• Advise on agreements, including licensing, grant funding, sponsorship, and educational placement agreements.
• Support senior managers in navigating new legal and regulatory developments.
• Provide guidance and review compliance on governance frameworks and practice, and monitor healthcare legislation as it affects the charity’s areas of operations.
• Provide guidance on professional regulatory matters.
• Advise on political campaigning restrictions, and unauthorised fundraising practice.
• Review and advise on changes to policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Advise on HM Coroner matters, StJRs, Deprivation of Liberty Standards, LPAs, and requests for patient data.
• Advise on complaints up to Ombudsman level.
• Advise on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters (anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, data protection, care standards, and charity regulations).
• Undertake other job-related duties and special projects, contributing to the overall success of the legal team.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Qualified Solicitor with significant post-qualification experience.
• Significant experience in charity law, probate law, property law, conveyancing, employment law, tribunals, and contract law.
• Educated to degree level or higher.
• Current practising certificate.
• Strong proficiency in navigating relevant legislation impacting charities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders and convey legal concepts to non-legal audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, manage workload, and adapt to changing circumstances in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, resilience, and professionalism in managing disputes and challenges.
• Experience of managing a contract management database.
• Analytical skills with a solution-driven approach.
• Able to draft with clarity and demonstrate attention to detail.
• Prior in-house experience is an advantage.
• Flexible working approach.
• Able to undertake legal research.
• Proficient in using IT.