Legal Counsel

**About Elysium Healthcare**

Elysium provides residential services across England and Wales for people requiring care and treatment across our Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, and Children & Education divisions.Elysium is an established, stable and agilecompany with a unique approach to the delivery of care. We have a network of over 90 sitesand over 8,000 employees.

Elysium is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

**About the Opportunity**

We are looking for an experienced legal professional, ideally with mental health law experience.You will be supporting our mental health solicitor on matters relating to healthcare law, specifically mental health law-related queries, medical malpracticeclaims, inquests, investigations, as well as training.

**About You**

**To be successful in this role, you'll need to**:

- Have significant experience in a legal team
- Be tenacious and hard working
- Be enthusiastic and keen to learn about and experience new areas
- Be willing to do a range of tasks as needed
- Be a good communicator
- Have a desire to understand the business, and work closely with a range of staff across the whole company
- Have strong organisation and administration skills
- Be competent using Microsoft Office products (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
- Have significant experience working in a legal team (preferably working as a Solicitor)

**What you will get**
- Competitive annual salary + Benefits
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - plus your birthday off
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

At Elysium, we want the best for you. That’s why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.