Head of Department

2 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Fletchers Solicitors Full time

**Head Of Department PI/ 2 Wheel team**

**Location: Manchester Leeds/ Hybrid**

**Fletchers Solicitors Ltd have a fantastic opportunity to join our growing Team.**

To lead and develop the Personal Injury Department (PI) to meet the needs of our clients and deliver Fletchers strategies and plans for Personal Injury.

**About Fletchers Solicitors**:
Fletchers is a rapidly growing law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence law. We are based in the North-West of the UK, with offices in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds & Southport, although many of our colleagues work from home as Fletchers offers Hybrid working. We offer a great work life balance, fabulous benefits, apprenticeships, and internal progression, around 10% of colleagues are currently working on apprenticeships or training contracts - more than ever before - and we are continuing to grow our L&D offering. We have a great culture and people that will support you and your goals.

**Main Responsibilities for the role**:
**1.Strategy & Leadership**
- Ensure that the team provides excellent client service
- Ensure that the team achieves their agreed performance targets by using consistent and clear leadership in the management of individuals KPIs
- Ensure the progression of all cases in team up to the point of settlement
- Provide inspirational leadership to PI including recruitment, motivation, training and supporting of team members as required
- Implement and monitor departmental plans to deliver Fletchers priorities including Project Arrow across PI
- Support the budgeting process for PI

**2.People Management**
- Lead the PI department directly managing the Team Leaders
- Coach, develop and support managers to achieve excellent people leadership practice
- Work with the People team to optimise the recruitment and retention of lawyers in the department
- Role model Fletchers Values

**3.Technical**
- Provide advice and guidance on any PI issues
- Ensure departmental policies and procedures are followed to ensure cases are progressed appropriately and client satisfaction is delivered
- Work with internal and external partners to ensure the department delivers quality legal services with unrivalled client care in a compliant way

**4.Case Handling**
- To run a reduced load of circa. 25% of a full capacity numbers varying in value and technicality Liaising with clients, experts, barristers, third party solicitors and insurers as necessary.
- Dealing with all aspects of pre and post issue procedures in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Pursuing cases to conclusion.
- Ensuring all actions as per Proclaim Action List are completed in a timely fashion.
- Accurate time recording.
- Maintaining client files in good order in accordance with Lexcel and other quality assurance requirements.
- Delegate and supervise tasks to junior team members where appropriate

**KPIs/OUTCOME MEASURES**:
**1.Delivery of key output metrics**:
a.Fees, Work Done, EBITDA & EBITDAW
b.Cases issued
c.Accepted cases
d.WIP to costs
e.Client satisfaction
f.Production
g.Telephone statistics

**RELATIONSHIPS**

**1.Provides a service to**
- Clients
- Marketing team

**2.Receives a service from**
- Finance
- People
- Systems
- Facilities
- Client & Marketing
- Compliance
- Legal Strategy and Ops

**3.Acts as a champion**
- Good legal practice in Personal Injury cases

**4.Governance group membership**
- Heads Of
- Experience of successfully leading a Personal Injury Team
- Experience of running a wide variety of Personal Injury claims including Employers and Public Liability and RTA
- Ability to deliver excellent client service
- A good understanding of how to deliver and grow team productivity
- Experience of coaching and supporting other lawyers and managers
- Forming and maintaining positive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to role model good practice leadership
- Technology literate, with the ability to use technology to enhance legal services
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to form positive working relationships with a wide variety of team members
- Strong analytical skills

**In return Fletchers can offer**:

- Competitive salary
- 35 hours working week
- 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days holiday per year, until you long service award the 3 days after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment
- Pension scheme with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option
- Life Assurance Policy
- Medicash policy to cover some Dental, optical and other medical expenses
- Enhanced company sick pay
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and IVF schemes
- Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work-life balance
- Varied calendar of funded company social events (check out Fletchers Group on LinkedIn)
- Monthly voucher awards

**So much has happened in the last year at Fletchers**:

- We became Fletchers Group following several acqu

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