Job summary
Location
Complaints & Legal Services
Ladybridge Hall, Bolton or Estuary Point, Liverpool
Contract type & working pattern
Permanent, Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
Band 8a
Speciality
Corporate Affairs
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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure you have read the full Job Description and Person Specification before applying for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure you have read the full Job Description and Person Specification before applying for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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
- Proven court advocacy experience
- 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
Essential
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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
- Proven court advocacy experience
- 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
Essential
- 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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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