Healthcare recruitmentAthona
Healthcare recruitment, with the paperwork keeping pace
Consistently available with clear, well-considered advice. Communication is of a high standard, and we are never left waiting for information or assistance.
Tanya IronmongerOperations, Athona
Matters to date
49
on one Enterprise plan for the whole group; five people can open matters
What it would have cost
£57,000
at typical hourly rates for this work
Saved
£37,000
about 66%, against £19,300 paid over fourteen months
When it mattered
Redundancy processes and restrictive covenants handled correctly and kindly, a new brand trade mark defended against unauthorised use, a lease surrender for the office estate and an EMI option scheme.
Where the pressure is
A healthcare recruiter runs on people, which means the legal load is constant and mostly HR-shaped: new starters, role changes, maternity, absence, redundancy, restrictive covenants, all under sector regulation and NHS framework rules. Around that sit supplier and client terms, NDAs, the odd unpaid invoice and the brand itself. No single question is large. Together they would keep a lawyer busy full time, which is why Athona uses us as one.
What we did
One Enterprise plan covers the whole group, with five people across the business able to open matters. Around forty-five matters a year, most of them answered inside the week.
- Employment contracts, offer letters and job descriptions for an expanding workforce
- Policy reviews, flexible working, maternity and role changes, absence, redundancy processes and restrictive covenants, handled correctly and kindly
- Supplier and client terms, NDAs, a contractual dispute and an unpaid invoice
- Heads of terms and a lease surrender for the office estate
- A new brand trade mark, action on unauthorised use of the logo, GDPR retention and subject access requests, and an EMI option scheme
