Principal Advisory Lawyer

Job Details

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a wide ranging legal advisory post where you will use your legal expertise to make a real impact - maintaining public confidence in dental services and protecting the safety of patients.

As a Principal Advisory Lawyer, you will play a leading role at the General Dental Council, providing strategic and risk-based legal advice across a wide range of complex and high profile regulatory, wider public and commercial law matters.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading a team of lawyers ensuring the provision of accurate, timely, cost-effective and risk-based advice.
• Working proactively with senior stakeholders across the organisation to identify legal risk and design and implement mitigations.
• Contributing to decision-making and overseeing strategic and high-risk litigation.
• Critiquing draft legislation and working with external advisors on specialist matters.
• Contributing to the delivery of the GDC’s corporate strategy and costed corporate plan.
• Identifying legal issues and working proactively with colleagues to highlight and mitigate these where possible.

Person Specification:

• To be considered for this role you will need to be a qualified and practising solicitor, or barrister, or ILEX qualified, with significant post qualification experience in one or more of the following areas of law: public law; information law; commercial law; criminal law; regulatory/ professional discipline; and employment law.
• You will also need excellent legal analytical skills, with the ability to analyse complex legal issues and present legally sound, risk-based and pragmatic advice and instructions.

Benefits:

The GDC is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, that provides an environment that reflects our values and culture and allows employees to flourish.

To support this we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, including flexible working arrangements from day one and employee networks that aid growth and development.

Some of our benefits include:

• 27 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) - rising to 30 days (plus 8 bank holidays) after 2 years’ service
• Flexi-time scheme
• Employer pension contributions up to 10%
• Buy/Sell annual leave
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave from 1 years’ service.
• Life assurance, income protection plan and enhanced sick leave policy
• Staff discounts including eye care contributions and discounted gym membership

We encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and career development of people from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.

How to apply:

As part of your supporting statement, we would request that you expand on your experience within the person specification areas above.

Closing date: 23:59 on 10 August 2025.

Please note that we reserve the right to bring this recruitment campaign to an end without notice, and we encourage all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.

Please no agencies unless instructed otherwise.