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Solicitor

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Liverpool

On-site

GBP 47,000 - 54,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is looking for a Solicitor to join their in-house legal team focusing on managing claims and inquest cases. This full-time role involves impactful work across the organization, providing legal expertise while ensuring compliance with NHS law and processes. The successful candidate will possess a law degree and a strong background in legal practice, alongside excellent communication and negotiation skills. Join a team where you can make a real difference in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

  • Qualified solicitor with evidence of continued professional development.
  • Experience managing high-profile and complex cases.
  • Ability to work flexibly, including unsocial hours when needed.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a caseload of claims, and undertake inquest cases.
  • Support colleagues involved in legal processes.
  • Contribute to Trust processes by sharing learning from claims.

Skills

Communication
Negotiation
Report Writing
Analytic Skills
Personal Resilience
Facilitation Skills

Education

Law Degree
Legal Practice Course (LPC)
Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
Trained to Masters Level or Equivalent

Job description

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Ladybridge Hall, Bolton or Estuary Point, Liverpool

Permanent, Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Band 8a

Speciality

Main duties of the job

We are continuing to grow our inhouse legal team and are looking to recruit a solicitor to join our team. As a solicitor in the team, you’ll be at the forefront of everything that we do and have a positive impact across the whole Trust. This is a hugely rewarding role in a supportive team. Day to day you’ll manage a case load of claims with the potential to undertake inquest cases. You’ll be involved in making a real difference to Trust processes by sharing learning from claims and supporting colleagues involved in legal processes.

Working for our organisation

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.

Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.

Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.

We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Person specification

Qualifications

  • Law Degree, Legal Practice Course (LPC) or equivalent
  • Qualified practising solicitor with post graduate diploma in legal practice
  • Trained to masters level or equivalent
  • Evidence of continued professional development

Skills

  • Excellent communication skills and able to communicate highly contentious and sensitive legal information often in a hostile atmosphere
  • Ability to take evidence from witnesses and present in court
  • Ability to negotiate and advise on the settlement of claims
  • Excellent facilitation and negotiation skills
  • High quality report writing and legal statement drafting skills
  • Ability to analyse, evaluate and summarise highly complex and/or contentious data
  • Approachable and supportive, ability to work within a team
  • Ability to work flexibly with occasional need to work unsocial hours.
  • Ability to travel regularly across the NW to meetings with client and to attend coroners court etc often at short notice.
  • Remain calm in a very busy environment
  • Personal resilience – the role will involve reading about and hearing difficult and distressing situations on a daily basis e.g. non-accidental injury to children, vulnerable adults, child abuse, substance abuse, fatal accidents, both from a staff perspective and from a patient perspective
  • High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
  • Expected to be able to frequently concentrate intensely for prolonged periods of time - reading legal documentation, case papers, note taking, conducting examination and cross examination of witnesses in court or tribunal over a period of several days
  • Required to spend sustained periods sitting still at a desk or in court

Knowledge

  • Knowledge of litigation and/or coronial law management
  • Understanding of the NHS infrastructure and policy
  • Knowledge of management of legal services within the NHS
  • Understanding of ambulance service policies, procedures and strategy and of broader NHS/Ambulance issues
  • Post qualification experience of managing complex, high profile and/or contentious cases
  • Current and demonstrable evidence of managing large caseloads of inquests and/or claims
  • Evidence of successfully providing high quality and responsive advice with a clear client focused approach, achieving innovative solutions
  • Evidence of successfully leading, motivating and developing others
  • Experience in allocating and supervising the work of junior legal colleagues

Values

  • Working together – demonstrate collaborative and inclusive working and challenge behaviour that is not inclusive or acceptable.
  • Being at our best – professional and adaptable and takes pride in work.
  • Making a difference – act with compassion, kindness and integrity towards everyone.
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