Litigation Assistant

Kennedys; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading health and social care consultancy is seeking clinical negligence/medical malpractice consultants to join their team. This role offers flexible hours with the ability to work from home while providing crucial support to solicitors. Candidates should have experience in clinical negligence and strong communication skills. The consultancy supports career growth in a client-focused, collaborative environment, allowing you to manage a varied workload on a self-employed basis. Join a recognized team in a progressive organization.

Benefits

Flexible work hours

Professional development opportunities

Hybrid working model

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical negligence, medical malpractice, or personal injury.
• Ability to build strong relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Confidence in direct client interaction.

Responsibilities

• Assist solicitors with pre‑litigated and litigated matters.
• Conduct pre‑litigation investigations.
• Support client relationship development.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Legal analysis

Project management

Interpersonal relationships

Job description

Overview

Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers. Our Health and Care: Resolution team operates across England with four offices (Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and London), offering advice and assistance to health and social care organisations across a broad range of issues including clinical negligence, medical malpractice and human rights claims, inquests, Court of Protection and public law matters. We are one of ten firms that act for the NHS Resolution, putting us at the heart of claims and complaints brought against the NHS. Our Clinical Negligence team is highly regarded for their work acting on behalf of NHSR and NHS Trusts and in the defence of clinical negligence cases. In addition, we undertake healthcare and medical malpractice and regulatory work for a range of private insurers and private sector health and social care providers.

Role

We are seeking to recruit clinical negligence/medical malpractice consultants to join our consultant team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with an excellent client base and experience high quality work but with flexible hours to suit you. Our consultants are self‑employed and work from home with office support. They undertake a mixed portfolio of work on a fixed fee and day rate basis. This is a new way of working for applicants who want to have the flexibility to choose when and how much work they do (depending on client demand). We would be happy to talk to any potential candidates coming from a more traditional role, who would be interested in transitioning to a consultant role, and our existing consultants would be happy to explain how the role works.

Responsibilities

• Provide assistance to solicitors undertaking pre‑litigated and litigated matters
• Undertake pre‑litigation investigation and advisory work
• Provide ad hoc legal services support to our clients
• Support the development of relationships with NHS Resolution/Insurer clients and Trust/Insured clients
• Liaise with Primary Care practitioners of various specialties and backgrounds

Qualifications

• Previous clinical negligence, defendant medical malpractice/insurance, or PI experience
• Ideally experience of claims against Primary Care practitioners
• Strong communication skills with a professional approach to work
• Confidence in working directly with clients
• An ability to build strong interpersonal relationships
• An aptitude for drafting and legal analysis
• A keenness to work collaboratively with colleagues at junior and senior levels
• Excellent project management skills
• A practical and commercial approach

Company Overview

Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors. Supported by valued business services professionals, our award‑winning and growing legal teams work together to support almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

Benefits

We embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose and influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Our hybrid working model and professional development opportunities support you to be your best. We target ambitious growth and success, and we are looking for the best people to be part of it.