You will join an established, collaborative team with a strong pipeline of work arising from key panel appointments, expanding client relationships, and new instructions. The role offers high-quality work, regular client contact, clear opportunities for progression, and supervision tailored to your level of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise on a varied caseload of commercial real estate matters across health and social care, including acquisitions and disposals, leases and agreements for lease, licences, asset management, development arrangements, strategic estate projects, portfolio work, due diligence, and reporting.
• Support senior lawyers on complex, high-value, or strategically important transactions, taking responsibility for defined workstreams and helping to coordinate delivery across the wider matter team.
• Lead appropriate transactions, with the level of autonomy and supervision reflecting your experience, and act as a trusted day-to-day contact for clients and their advisers.
• Develop a strong understanding of each client’s objectives and of the public-sector, regulatory, funding, and operational environment in which healthcare property is held and used, translating that understanding into clear, pragmatic, and proportionate advice.
• Help clients navigate the interaction between property arrangements and service delivery, including issues arising from operational continuity, estate strategy, redevelopment, occupation structures, operator covenant, and stakeholder or regulatory requirements.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in construction, planning, property litigation, portfolio management, corporate, commercial, procurement, regulatory, finance, and tax to provide an integrated service.
• Manage matters proactively, including scope, priorities, timetables, budgets, reporting, and stakeholder expectations, escalating issues appropriately.
• Comply with client protocols and service levels and with the firm’s requirements on file opening, conflicts, confidentiality, data security, financial management, billing, and risk management.
• Contribute to the development of know-how, precedents, training, and the team’s use of technology and process improvement to deliver work efficiently and consistently.
• Play an active role in client care, relationship development, tenders, seminars, thought leadership, and other business development activity appropriate to your level.
• Support the development of junior colleagues through collaboration, knowledge sharing, supervision, and constructive feedback, where appropriate.

Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise

• A solicitor qualified in England and Wales, normally with 1–3 years’ PQE for the Solicitor role, 3–5 years’ PQE for the Associate role, or 5+ years’ PQE for the Senior Associate role. We will consider equivalent experience and will assess applications on their individual merits.
• Relevant commercial real estate experience gained in private practice, in-house, or the public sector. Experience of healthcare, social care, NHS estates, or other operational property is advantageous but not essential; what matters is a genuine interest in developing a specialist sector practice.
• Sound experience of landlord and tenant matters, acquisitions and disposals, due diligence, and reporting. Exposure to development, investment, portfolio projects, public-sector estates, operational real estate, or the property aspects of corporate transactions would also be valuable.
• Strong technical ability, careful drafting, and the judgement to identify issues, analyse risk, and propose proportionate, commercially workable solutions.
• An interest in how property supports the delivery of health and social care services, together with a willingness to build knowledge of NHS and independent-sector structures, healthcare regulation, funding models, and the commercial drivers affecting operational assets.
• The confidence to communicate clearly with clients, colleagues, and other advisers, build trusted relationships, and provide responsive, practical advice.
• A collaborative and collegiate approach, combined with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and recognise the boundaries of your competence and authority.
• Strong organisation and matter-management skills, with close attention to quality, detail, timetables, budgets, and client service commitments.
• A positive approach to innovation, legal technology, process improvement, and new ways of delivering legal services.
• Evidence, appropriate to your level, of contributing to business development, client relationships, knowledge sharing, and the development of colleagues.

What We Are Looking For at Each Level

Solicitor (1–3 years’ PQE)

• You will build breadth and confidence across core commercial real estate work, take ownership of discrete tasks and smaller transactions, develop direct client relationships, and learn to apply sector knowledge to practical delivery.

Associate (3–5 years’ PQE)

• You will lead a broader range of transactions, manage key workstreams on complex projects, supervise junior colleagues, and contribute actively to client development, matter management, and team initiatives.

Senior Associate (5+ years’ PQE)

• You will lead significant matters and client relationships, provide strategic and sector-informed advice, supervise and develop colleagues, support pricing and delivery decisions, and play a visible role in growing the practice.

Additional Information

As a Disability Confident Scheme employer, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage (including the application, assessment, or interview process), please contact recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence with the vacancy reference in the subject line, and we’ll be happy to help.