Clinical Negligence Paralegal

Slater Gordon; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer law firm is seeking a talented Paralegal to join its Clinical Negligence team in Brighton. This role involves supporting fee earners with various aspects of Clinical Negligence cases, including managing disclosure, instructions, and funding details. Candidates should have experience in clinical negligence matters and a passion for helping clients. The firm offers a hybrid working model, professional development opportunities, and comprehensive benefits including holiday allowance and health programs.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

25 days holiday allowance

Employee Referral scheme

Group Incentive Plan

Health and Wellbeing Programs

Dental Insurance

Free legal help

Qualifications

• Previous experience in clinical negligence matters.
• Ability to manage funding details and instructions.
• Excellent communication skills for interacting with clients and experts.

Responsibilities

• Support fee earners in Clinical Negligence cases.
• Instruct counsel and medical experts.
• Quantify damages claims.

Skills

Experience in Clinical Negligence

Management of disclosure and instructions

Ability to attend conferences

Job description

Overview

We are currently recruiting for a talented Paralegal to join our award-winning Clinical Negligence team in Brighton. Supporting our fee earners, we are looking for those who have experience within a variety of matters in Clinical Negligence, such as obstetrics, orthopaedics, brain and spinal injury, along with misdiagnosis. We’re looking for those who can manage disclosure, instructions and funding details. Other duties would include instructing counsel and medical experts, with the opportunity to attend various conferences and helping to quantify damages claims. Ideally we are looking for someone with previous clinical negligence experience.

Who are we?

Slater and Gordon are a leading consumer law firm, and our mission is to give people easier access to world class legal services. We are a legal services business powered by technology and led by people that support customers in every step of their case. Client service is at the heart of Slater and Gordon and we take pride in the impressive headlines we generate, demonstrating our range of work and the relentless pursuit of justice by our Solicitors.

At Slater and Gordon Lawyers we are inclusive. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view. We believe diversity drives innovation. So, we’re building a culture where difference is valued. Our culture motivates our employees to give their full selves to the job and invest in the company’s future. Our people see value in their work and are eager to do well in their roles. Our values ensure that all our employees are working towards the same goals.

Benefits

• Hybrid working – 2 days per week working in the office (must live a reasonable distance to commute to the office)
• 35 hours per week – Monday to Friday
• 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Buy and sell annual leave up to 5 days
• Employee Referral scheme
• Group Incentive Plan (Annual Bonus Scheme)
• Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App providing you with services including annual health checks, access to Digital GP’s, mental health consultations, 2nd medical opinions and much more
• Employee Assistance Programme with free webinars for stress awareness and counselling sessions
• Group Income Protection to support you with an income if you are unable to work long term due to illness or injury
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes and apps including gym discounts, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, meditation sessions and more
• Life Assurance cover
• Workplace pension
• Benefits Hub providing discounts to over 700 services including cinema tickets, food and drink, travel, and high street stores
• Dental Insurance
• Christmas and Summer socials
• Free legal help and discounted lawyer-led legal services
• Some benefits subject to probation or length of service; may be adjusted or removed from time to time

Your Professional Development

We will also support and encourage you with developing your career with an award-winning law firm. We run courses across our offices and are continuously monitoring and updating the learning and development offering based on what you tell us. We can support you with your continuous professional development by providing funding for professional qualifications, attending external training courses and providing you with a range of internal learning resources.

Our Values

Like all great businesses, we strive to recruit the best people and uphold the highest legal standards. Our people bring something a little different. We hire people who can challenge, remove roadblocks and deliver outstanding customer service. That\'s why at Slater + Gordon we go further with our values. How we work is guided by the S+G Way. This means:

• We do what we say we will
• We don’t wait we create
• We own it, we sort it
• We respect and encourage each other
• We make time to live

The S+G Way defines the specific behaviours and actions that our colleagues and our customers care about the most. We know this, because our colleagues helped to create the way, through a series of interactive workshops and interviews.