Birmingham
helen.badger@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)121 237 4554
Helen specialises in employment within health, social care and education. She advises on a wide range of HR and employment matters, including disciplinary and grievance issues in the workplace, TUPE, equal pay, workforce change, discrimination and variation of terms and conditions of employment.
Providing helpline advice on day to day employment law issues to numerous health sector clients including acute trusts, foundation trusts, ambulance trusts, CCGs and independent health care providers.
Providing advice and guidance to health sector clients on issues relating to employees’ membership of professional bodies including the GMC, NMC and HCPC.
Representing public and private sector bodies in all types of claims in the employment tribunal, including unfair dismissal, redundancy, and claims under the Equality Act 2010.
Representing clients in the health sector on matters including TUPE, disciplinary proceedings, equal pay and interpretation and implementation of Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
This will be the first in a series of webinars looking into different areas of care and will focus on elderly care. Our speakers will be looking forward into 2023 and beyond to consider how elderly care may change in the future and will share insights gathered from a round table event held the week before.
We invite you to an on-demand webinar looking at the key legal and practical implications for healthcare employers arising from the NHS England VCOD Guidance and actions required in Phase 2 implementation stage.
We were delighted to be joined by Dr Nigel Sturrock, Regional Medical Director for the Midlands at NHS England and NHS Improvement. He gave an overview of the pressures placed on the NHS by the pandemic, including the impact on urgent and emergency care, elective procedures and staffing.
An on-demand webinar for HR practitioners, looking at the legal and practical implications for NHS employers of the Government’s decision to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for frontline healthcare workers.
Rebecca Fitzpatrick, Helen Badger and Carl May-Smith, Partners at Browne Jacobson provided an overview of the legal frameworks in place that can assist Trusts when managing violent, abusive and racist patients
The High Court case of Burn v Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWHC 1674 has considered the scope of the disclosure requirements under the Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) framework and provides some useful guidance for those tasked with carrying out case investigations.
The Government has announced the lifting of many restrictions from 19 July 2021 including the cessation of the need for social distancing, the removal of the legal requirement for face masks, and the end of required homeworking have been widely publicised.
This shared insight provided an insight into the legal issues arising from Covid-19 related illness, including long Covid and PTSD.
Practical tips to share with healthcare HR colleagues on issues which may cause employee relations issues and litigation in 2021.
We speak about law protecting whistleblowers, how to recognise a protected disclosure and the Trust’s statutory duties when dealing with whistleblowers.
