About this role
## **Accurx is solving healthcare productivity for the NHS**
For decades, the NHS has struggled with fragmented systems that make simple tasks feel impossible. At Accurx, we’re changing that by building a single, system-wide platform that helps every patient get gold-standard, efficient, and joined-up care.
What started as a way for GPs to text a patient, has now evolved into an all-in-one digital toolkit used by 98% of GP practices and 68% (and growing!) of NHS Trusts.
Our platform now powers [**Total Triage**](https://www.accurx.com/primary-care)to manage patient demand, and [**Self-Book**](https://www.accurx.com/booking)that lets patients schedule their own appointments in seconds. We’ve automated routine care with [**Patient Questionnaires**](https://www.accurx.com/questionnaires) for long-term conditions, while [**Accumail**](https://www.accurx.com/accumail) finally allows staff-to-staff communication to happen instantly across different care settings. We’re now pushing the boundaries of the consultation itself with [**Accurx Scribe**](https://www.accurx.com/scribe), our AI-powered note-taker that drafts medical notes in real-time.
We’re not just shipping features. We’re giving clinicians their time back and ensuring every patient journey is as smooth as it should be.
**Sounds great, right? Here's why we need you.**
As our **Head of Legal,** you will be the ultimate owner of Accurx's legal risk profile, setting a world-class standard for governance, compliance, and legal quality across a fast-scaling business. Reporting directly to our Chief People Officer, you will build and lead the vital legal frameworks that allow us to innovate in a high-stakes healthcare environment while maintaining absolute trust with the NHS. You'll act as a strategic, deeply commercial partner to executive leaders and a cross-functional team, navigating cutting-edge data privacy and clinical AI frontiers to protect our downside while maximizing our upside.
* **Legal Strategy & Operations:** Managing all core legal domains—including commercial contracts, IP, partnership agreements, and employment law—ensuring our internal legal operations are simple, tech-enabled, and user-friendly. * **AI Governance & Enablement:** Building the legal foundations to operate as an AI-native business, keeping us ahead of an evolving regulatory landscape (UK AI Regulation, EU AI Act, MHRA, ICO) to translate rules into pragmatic product development frameworks. * **Scalable GRC Frameworks:** Designing and implementing a robust Governance, Risk, and Compliance framework that accurately identifies risks, prioritising mitigations to support rapid commercial growth. * **Privacy-by-Design Championing:** Partnering closely with Product, Technology, and Clinical leaders to actively problem-solve and embed privacy and responsible AI practices into the very fabric of how we build software. * **People Leadership:** Developing, mentoring, and uniting a high-performing team of three direct reports (spanning Service Management, Data Protection and Legal Operations) to consistently raise the bar. * **Cross-Functional Advisory:** Serving as a trusted advisor to the Board, CEO, and Executive team, providing proactive, data-driven insights on corporate governance, board updates, and investment preparedness.
## **You should apply if...**
* **You're a qualified legal expert:** You are a Qualified Solicitor in England & Wales (or equivalent with QLTS) with a minimum of 8+ years PQE. * **In-house scale-up experience:** You have a proven track record working in-house within a high-growth SaaS or tech environment, specifically navigating growth stages from Series B and beyond. * **Commercial & board-level judgment:** You possess exceptional judgment and commercial pragmatism, with experience partnering directly with investors, senior leadership, and Boards to deliver confident, high-stakes strategic advice. * **AI & Data Privacy grounding:** You bring a working knowledge of - and a genuine passion for - emerging AI regulatory frameworks (like the EU AI Act, ICO guidance, and MHRA medical device frameworks) and data protection. * **Corporate & equity housekeeping:** You have hands-on experience handling company secretarial duties, board processes, statutory compliance, and managing employee share schemes. * **Autonomous & mission-driven:** You thrive with high levels of autonomy, love solving complex problems without close supervision, and are genuinely driven by our mission to fix communication in healthcare. * **NHS familiarity:** Ideally, you have exposure to public sector frameworks or NHS procurement processes, understanding what it takes to sell software to regulated customers.
## **What’s in it for me?**
You'll be joining an established but fast-growing Tech for Good movement, where we're led by our [Principles](https://www.notion.so/accurx/How-we-work-Accurx-Principles-211640edee304821b4480d3f9c30e051) and our [mission](https://accurx.notion.site/Mission-and-Vision-fe9b12ff78bd4a7996682fc5c09c2d8e) to solve healthcare productivity.
* **£120,000 - £150,000 salary** + share options up to £50,000 * [**Benefits to suit you:**](https://accurx.notion.site/Perks-Benefits-f1e9148b71be486791aa2c503e5d775a?pvs=74) adjust your healthcare cover, your pension or life insurance, whatever stage you’re at in life * **Flexible working:** We are an office first culture and ask that you’re in our (dog-friendly) Shoreditch office 3 days a week, with core hours of 10am - 4pm * **Time off:** You’ll get 28 days of holiday (plus bank holidays) and up to 4 weeks to work from anywhere per year * **Family matters:** We offer enhanced parental leave, fertility support and parental loss support * **We have our very own Chef!** Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches will be provided, with the occasional sweet treat!
**Want to know more about the company or the hiring process?** Check out our [Careers page](https://www.accurx.com/careers) and [Candidate hub.](https://accurx.notion.site/Candidate-Hub-764ee56d9cb74ff9a97a5104ed7f0707)
**Find us across social media**: [Medium](https://medium.com/accurx), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/accurx/posts/?feedView=all), [X](https://x.com/Accurx), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/accurxteam/) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@AccurxUK).