Legal Services Administrator

DenialHost; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Gateshead is seeking a motivated Administrative Support professional for the Legal Services team. The role involves providing efficient administrative support, managing databases, handling correspondence, and ensuring compliance with legal duties in a fast-paced environment. Strong IT and organisational skills are essential. This position is an excellent opportunity for individuals who thrive in a supportive healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Competence in managing electronic databases and spreadsheets.
• Ability to provide efficient administrative support.

Responsibilities

• Provide general administrative support to the Legal Services team.
• Manage the team's general email inbox and handle telephone queries.
• Maintain case files and team spreadsheets.
• Prepare correspondence for Coroners, solicitors, and external bodies.
• Support the monitoring of the Trust's duty of candour compliance.

Skills

IT skills

Time management

Organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a competent, highly motivated, flexible and enthusiastic person to support the Legal Services team, based in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead.

The successful candidate will provide confidential and efficient administrative support for the service. This post would suit an applicant who has fantastic IT skills and is able to manage a variety of electronic databases and spreadsheets. The post requires excellent time management and organisational skills as well as interpersonal skills.

The post holder will provide a high quality administrative service to the Legal Services team in order to support the delivery of legal services to the organisation.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the golden thread which runs through everything we do they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Womens Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our Balance programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Responsibilities

• To provide timely and efficient general administrative support to the Legal Services team on a day to day basis.
• To carry out a full range of administrative duties, including managing the teams general email inbox, handling telephone queries, maintenance of case files and team spreadsheets, data collection and input, and the collation and preparation of records for disclosure to third parties.
• To ensure that correspondence and disclosures are carefully prepared and forwarded to Coroners, solicitors, Trust staff and external bodies, as expediently as possible.
• To assist in the monitoring of the Trusts duty of candour compliance and providing support.
• To be involved in ongoing training and development within the team.