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I am Senior Partner and Head of Employment, Pensions & Immigration at Bevan Brittan. I have overall responsibility for Bevan Brittan's health and social care employment practice, acting for employers across the independent and voluntary sectors as well as the NHS. I am also a member of the Bevan Brittan board and am the strategic lead for our Wellbeing agenda, which forms part of our wider Responsible Employer focus.
As Senior Partner, I support colleagues and clients across our key markets of health and social care, housing, local government, insurance and finance, higher education, energy and resource management and construction.
Jodie Sinclair is commercial, straightforward and has the ability to cut to the chase easily and with real skill.
With over 20 years' experience as a specialist employment lawyer, my employment practice spans both contentious and advisory work including:
- High value or complex discrimination and whistleblowing claims
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team with commercial healthcare, regulatory and litigation colleagues on a broad range of medical workforce issues such as practising privileges and engagement models as well as doctors and dentists' conduct and capability concerns under the Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) Framework for the NHS
- Advising on Covid related workforce issues
- Employment litigation across the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal jurisdictions
- Employee relations matters such as grievances, Dignity at Work, performance and conduct matters, with a particular focus on supporting the Just Culture agenda
- Providing specialist health and social care workforce support on the CQC Well Led agenda, including governance reviews, CQC inspection readiness and preparation
- Organisational change including re-structures and redundancy, joint venture arrangements, TUPE and collective and individual consultation exercises
- Policy and contractual advice, including disputes
Jodie Sinclair is outstanding. Clarity of thought and advice at all times. Tireless in a management of cases and immensely able.
I regularly support Chief Executives and Chairs in managing strategic and board level workforce issues, including senior executive terminations and breakdown in working relationships. I am increasingly consulted as a sounding board for the management of workforce issues arising from the #Metoo and Black Lives Matter Movement, Health and Wellbeing and “Just and Compassionate Culture” agendas, including the facilitation of cultural reviews, audits and “deep dives” into disciplinary and formal management processes, and the learning arising from same.
I am one of the core partners in the multi-disciplinary healthcare team awarded "Health Investor – Legal Adviser of the Year" (Transactional) in 2020 and 2021, "Legal Adviser of the Year" (Private) in 2019 and for both Public Sector categories in 2017 and 2018.
Clients describe me as "professional, knowledgeable and flexible in her approach" and note that "she can be trusted to deliver solution-focused results".
I chair a Workforce Forum on strategic workforce issues for Workforce Directors within the healthcare sector and I’m a regular contributor to the Independent Healthcare Partners Network HRD Meetings. I speak extensively both in-house and at sector events on a broad range of employment and workforce matters, for example, at Laing Buisson’s Private Acute Healthcare Conference and the Independent Healthcare Providers Network Annual Summit and regularly provide bespoke training workshops to clients on a broad range of employment issues and legislative developments.
Publications
I’m a regular contributor to our Employment Eye publications, the HPMA monthly newsletter and have been published in the Care Markets Journal, Health Investor Magazine and Health Service Journal. -
Arab Health 2025 Reflections
07/02/2025
Sexual Safety in Healthcare
04/04/2024
How big is the sexual safety issue in health and care and what steps can be taken via the Sexual Safety Charter to life to address...
Modern Slavery in the UK adult care sector
16/03/2023
Employment Law Update: Case law and horizon scanning for HR and...
06/12/2022
Taking a look at some of the hot employment and workforce topics of 2022 and looking forward at what 2023 has in store
Breaking the Bias for International Women’s Day: A Bevan Brittan panel...
07/03/2022
The theme of International Women’s Day 2022 was ‘Breaking the Bias’
Arab Health 2022, the emerging trends for international healthcare
24/02/2022
In partnership with Healthcare World, Al Tamimi & Company and KPMG
Temporary FAQs: Managing the VCOD U-turn as at 11 February
11/02/2022
These FAQs are based on information available as at 11 February.
Mandatory Vaccinations in the Healthcare Sector – A briefing and Q & A...
31/01/2022
Practical recommendations to support organisations in navigating a fair and compliant process by 31 March 2022
Mandatory vaccination for health and social care workers: Updated FAQs...
09/12/2021
These FAQs are based on information available as at 8 December.
Employment Law Update: Menopause
19/10/2021
In this webinar we discussed the obligations of employers, how to ensure staff are supported and whether specific policies should...
New Coronavirus Regulations on self-isolation
30/09/2020
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020
COVID-19: The Transition Back to Work
01/06/2020
COVID-19 - Additional Death in Service Payment for Health and Care...
21/05/2020
What's available for the independent and third sectors?
COVID-19: The Transition Back to Work
14/05/2020
Government Guidance on Working Safely During Coronavirus and Changes to the Furlough Scheme
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme – FAQ’s
24/03/2020
The Paterson Inquiry – key recommendations
04/02/2020
Duty of Candour News Bulletin
27/02/2019
Preparing for a CQC inspection
05/02/2019
Inappropriate final written warnings
30/11/2016
Jodie Sinclair looks at how employment tribunals (and, by extension, employers) should deal with dismissal following a manifestly...
Clarity on MHPS capability proceedings
25/09/2014
In a decision which has been widely welcomed by those applying the 'Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS'...
Private medical treatment is a 'reasonable adjustment'
31/10/2013
You may be forgiven for thinking that the provision of private healthcare would be beyond the scope of an employer's duty to make ...
She has grip, clarity of thought, strategic and legal insight, drive, tenacity and provides excellent legal advice.