Medical Negligence Barrister jobs

Description

Make a Real Impact

Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors.

Supported by our valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we're part of.

Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2025/26 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for a thirteenth consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.

Looking to the future, we're targeting ambitious growth and success. And we're looking for the best people to be part of it.

Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers

Our Health and Care: Resolution team operates across England with four offices (Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and London), offering advice and assistance to health and social care organisations across a broad range of issues including clinical negligence, medical malpractice and human rights claims, inquests, Court of Protection and public law matters.

We are one of ten firms that act for the NHS Resolution, putting us at the heart of claims and complaints brought against the NHS. Our Clinical Negligence team is highly regarded for their work acting on behalf of NHSR and NHS Trusts and in the defence of clinical negligence cases. In addition, we undertake healthcare and medical malpractice and regulatory work for a range of private insurers and private sector health and social care providers.

The role

We are seeking to recruit clinical negligence/medical malpractice consultants to join our consultant team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with an excellent client base and experience high-quality work but with flexible hours to suit you. Our consultants are self-employed and work from home with office support. They undertake a mixed portfolio of work on a fixed fee and day rate basis. This is a new way of working for applicants who want to have the flexibility to choose when and how much work they do (depending on client demand).

Please note that we would be happy to talk to any potential candidates coming from a more traditional role, who would be interested in transitioning to a consultant role, and our existing consultants would be happy to explain how the role works.

In this role and depending on experience you have the opportunity to:

• Provide assistance to solicitors undertaking pre-litigated and litigated matters
• Undertake pre-litigation investigation and advisory work
• Provide ad hoc legal services support to our clients
• Support the development of relationships with NHS Resolution/Insurer clients and Trust/Insured clients
• Liaise with Primary Care practitioners of various specialties and backgrounds

What we are looking for from you

Successful applicants will:

• be either a fully qualified lawyer or experienced Paralegal;
• have clinical negligence, defendant medical malpractice/insurance, or PI experience;
• ideally have experience of claims against Primary Care practitioners
• possess strong communication skills with a professional approach to work;
• have confidence in working directly with clients;
• demonstrate an ability to build strong interpersonal relationships;
• have an aptitude for drafting and legal analysis;
• show a keenness to work collaboratively with colleagues at junior and senior levels;
• possess excellent project management skills;
• demonstrate a practical and commercial approach

Embracing our differences and valuing inclusion

Our shared aim is that everyone is welcome and canfeel comfortable being themselves at Bevan Brittan. To support this, weactively value and promote equality, diversity and inclusion in everything that we do. You'll be empowered and supported through our employee led networks, diverse colleagues, and a broad range of firmwide initiatives.

Recognising the unique contributions that a diverse workforce can bring to our business,we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any adjustments throughout the recruitment process or have any questions, please get in touch with our recruitment team by emailingrecruitment@bevanbrittan.com

Acting responsibly, now and for the future

To us, being a responsible business is second nature; a core part of Bevan Brittan's identity.Our colleagues are heavily involved in shaping and delivering activity across the four pillars of ourResponsible Business strategy: Community Engagement; Environmental Sustainability; Equality, Diversity & Inclusion; and Wellbeing.

Our people deliver pro bono legal work for charities and not-for-profit organisations. We play an active role in our local communities and donated £100,000 across our four regional office charities last year. We are also proudly carbon neutral. We've achieved the UN's Climate Neutral Now accreditation and our environmental sustainability plan focuses on achieving our net zero carbon target by 2040.

Collectively, the four pillars ensure we look after our colleagues' wellbeing; offer an environment in which everyone can progress on merit, give something back to the communities in which we work; and protect the environment.