Heads of Legal Service

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Full time
The Head of Legal Services is a vital senior leadership role at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

The postholder will lead the Legal Services Team, which sits in the Corporate Governance Directorate, and serve as the primary legal subject matter expert for the whole Trust.


This is a high profile role within the Trust, and the postholder will need to be hugely resilient - balancing a hands-on approach to personally progressing day-to-day legal casework in conjunction with the wider Legal Services Team, with other responsibilities such as supporting the Board and Executive Team with the provision of legal advice, identifying and sharing learning that will help lead to improved patient safety and experience, and raising the profile of the Legal Services Team, and the work it undertakes, across the organisation.


Reporting to the Director of Corporate Governance, the post holder will ensure that the Legal Services Team provides efficient and effective legal services that aim to minimise clinical, financial, operational and legal risks of the Trust.

This will include inquests, clinical claims, court of protection and all aspects of clinical legal advice, training and support.

The postholder will provide senior legal advice to the Trust, including sourcing from external providers if appropriate. They will brief senior management on sensitive legal matters that might have significant implications and/or may attract public and media interest


The postholder will be responsible for the leadership and development of the Legal Services Team members and will lead the management of healthcare legal services, relating to clinical negligence,employers liability, personal injury and coroner-related work.


The postholder will provide a combination of subject matter expertise and leadership skills to develop and maintain strong service delivery, including providing healthcare legal advice.


The postholder will work with professional leads across the organisation to enable the Trust to demonstrate its compliance with national policies and standards.


The postholder will support the Trust in improving the quality and value of services by learning from legal issues, including claims.


The role requires leadership skills with practical experience in a healthcare law setting to ensure a suitable level of competency to work effectively, recognising when external advice or support is needed.


The postholder will ensure there are mechanisms in place to identify and refer patient safety risks to the relevant teams for appropriate escalation and investigation and to drive learning from claims and inquests.


The postholder will also lead the subject access requests team to comply with legal requirements for the disclosure of health records and personal data.


Croydon Health Services NHS Trust holds a special place in the heart of our community it is a role that we take very seriously.

We have ambitious plans to continue our journey to transform our care and services for people in our borough and support our staff in the roles they fulfil.

We are a forerunner for how the NHS is changing.

Our One Croydon Alliance is a trailblazer in integration so that our services work together across health, care and the voluntary sector.

We are working together to help people live and stay well, as well as providing expert care at times of illness.


Our core service remains the provision of urgent and emergency and elective secondary care services and the full range of community services to our local population.

The pandemic hit our community harder and faster than most.

Like other NHS trusts, we have also seen extreme pressure for urgent and emergency care services, whilst continuing to maintain patient safety and maximise efficiency to tackle national elective care backlogs.

None of this would be possible without supporting our staff.


If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that's making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you're looking for.

Please see the attached supporting document job description and person specification which contain more information about the role***Qualified Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Proven and signficant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification

An in-depth understanding of NHS policy

Qualified Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Croydon University Hospital

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