Job summary
Are you the individual to help shape and develop the in-house legal team in LUHFT.
The Legal Service at LUHFT is a dynamic, growing and supportive team with the role providing an exciting opportunityfor an exceptional individual to lead our Legal Services Department. As part of this, you will also act as the lead for the emerging Liverpool NHS Legal Services Collaborative with responsibility for the provision of legal services across a further two trusts commencing early in 2024.
Your work will make a positive difference to the quality of care we provide across the city, and the advice and expertise we provide. Coming on board now offers an exciting opportunity to shape and develop the provision ofin-house legal services for the NHS.
Main duties of the job
The team's work is impactful, and varied and includes:
- Providing expert advice to Board Members, Executive Directors, Senior Leaders and other staff within LUHFT and LegalServices Collaborative member trusts in relation to relevant legal issues. This involves highly complex, highly sensitive, highlyconfidential, and sometimes contentious information.
- Leading the further developing the innovative NHS Legal Services Collaborative for Liverpool; this is supported by NHSEngland and the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System.
- Acting as the relationship manager for all external legal advice (clinical, commercial, workforce) and liaison with externalsolicitors.
- Providing strategic direction, support and advice across in relation to legal services to all areas.
- Ensuring that risk management processes are followed for any risks identified through the legal and coronial process
All lawyers within the Legal Service Department provide advice, often to senior decision makers, personally and at pace. The team handles a fantastic range of interesting and challenging work in an environment where there is a good balance of autonomy and support. The focus of the team is on building relationships, understanding the organisations we serve and quality of output rather than time recorded or hours billed, which means there are plenty of opportunities to develop professionally.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click herehttps://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Candidate Pack which provides additional information on the job description, main responsibilities and the essential criteria relating to this position.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Candidate Pack which provides additional information on the job description, main responsibilities and the essential criteria relating to this position.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- oQualified lawyer in England and Wales or other common law jurisdiction
- oMaster qualification or equivalent
- oEvidence of continued professional development
- oSignificant PQE in Healthcare Law
- oExperience of working in a senior legal services role within an NHS organisation.or healthcare law sector
- oSignificant experience in representing and management of litigation and inquest arrangements
- oExperience in training medical, nursing and other staff.
- oSignificant experience of building, maintaining and utilising successful partnerships across a range of stakeholders to influence and drive change.
- oExercise judgement involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- oExperience of policy development and implementation
- oEvidence of the ability to manage conflict and sensitive situations, acting with tact and diplomacy.
- oExcellent interpersonal skills with the ability to facilitate effective relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
- oAbility to write and implement policies
Desirable
- oSound knowledge of risk management and other elements of governance with particular reference to complaints management, incident management and regulatory compliance
- oDetailed understanding of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on the Trust and Legal Service Collaborative members.
- oExperience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- oQualified lawyer in England and Wales or other common law jurisdiction
- oMaster qualification or equivalent
- oEvidence of continued professional development
- oSignificant PQE in Healthcare Law
- oExperience of working in a senior legal services role within an NHS organisation.or healthcare law sector
- oSignificant experience in representing and management of litigation and inquest arrangements
- oExperience in training medical, nursing and other staff.
- oSignificant experience of building, maintaining and utilising successful partnerships across a range of stakeholders to influence and drive change.
- oExercise judgement involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- oExperience of policy development and implementation
- oEvidence of the ability to manage conflict and sensitive situations, acting with tact and diplomacy.
- oExcellent interpersonal skills with the ability to facilitate effective relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
- oAbility to write and implement policies
Desirable
- oSound knowledge of risk management and other elements of governance with particular reference to complaints management, incident management and regulatory compliance
- oDetailed understanding of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on the Trust and Legal Service Collaborative members.
- oExperience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
