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Legal Risk Management Advisor

2 months ago

Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Title: Legal Risk Management Advisor

**Job Summary**

The Legal Risk Management Advisor will play a crucial role in ensuring the Trust's compliance with legal requirements and providing guidance on complex clinical and non-clinical issues. This position requires a strong understanding of healthcare law and the ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide expert legal advice on contentious, complex, and sensitive clinical issues
  • Participate in and provide legal advice to Trust Working groups and Committees
  • Communicate highly contentious sensitive information in a hostile and antagonistic atmosphere
  • Provide legal advice on a range of clinical and non-clinical issues and policies with wide organisational impact
  • Obtain evidence from witnesses for inquests

Primary Duties & Areas of Responsibility

**Communication**
  • Communicate highly contentious sensitive information often in a hostile and antagonistic atmosphere in order to provide a legal advisory service associated with specialist litigation
  • Provide legal advice on a range of clinical and non-clinical issues and policies with wide organisational impact
  • Obtain evidence from witnesses for inquests
**Legal Advice**
  • Provide expert legal and practical advice on contentious, complex, and sensitive clinical issues that arise within the trust
  • Participate in and provide legal advice where necessary to Trust Working groups and Committees
  • Protect the interests of the Trust and staff members generally against any potential issues of unlawful conduct, negligence of professional misconduct or where the Trust may sustain reputational damage
  • Understand, analyse, interpret, and communicate highly complex clinical and legal information in a clear manner to non-legal staff members
**Court Applications (High Court/Court of Protection)**
  • Provide expert legal advice as to when an application to Court is required by the law
  • Identify and obtain all evidence as required by the Trust to achieve the desired outcome
  • Work with Panel Solicitors to approve appropriate Counsel to conduct proceedings and provide support accordingly
  • Advise, support and keep Trust clinicians involved in legal proceedings updated
**Coroners Inquests**
  • Provide expert legal advice on contentious inquests
  • Identify potential issues for the Trust and obtain clinical witness statements
  • Identify risks to the Trust so as to avoid PFD Reports being issued
  • Advise, prepare and support Trust clinicians required to attend inquests
  • Provide advocacy in the Coroners Court and to make legal submissions where required
  • Maintain good working relationships with the Coroners and Coroners Officers
  • Communicate to relevant staff the outcome of an Inquest and, where appropriate to prepare any formal response to PFD Reports and any other requests from the Coroner
  • Liaise with the Trusts Medical Examiner's office and Associate Medical Director: Mortality
**Clinical Negligence Claims**
  • Provide expert legal advice on negligence claims made against the Trust
  • Advise the Associate Director of Quality when making admissions or denials of liability, settlement offers and when signing official Court documents in conjunction with NHS Resolution and Panel Solicitors
  • Liaise closely with departmental colleagues to discuss current issues in order to promote the best possible outcome of a claim
  • Liaise sensitively with clinicians involved in negligence claims and provide them with appropriate support throughout the litigation process
  • Identify significant litigation risk proactively and take appropriate action to minimise the Trust's financial exposure
  • Work efficiently with NHS Resolution and Panel Solicitors, and to maintain professional relations with Claimant Solicitors and the Courts
  • Deal with claims submitted from Litigants in Person and those claims which involve particularly sensitive and/or complex issues
**Other Duties**
  • Provide the management team within Clinical Service units with GIRFT reports and support discussions to identify opportunities for learning and improvement
  • Maintain appropriate insurance cover for risks not covered by the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts or the Risk Pooling Schemes operated by NHS Resolution
  • Provide information to enable brokers to place cover of the best possible terms and notify significant changes between renewals
  • Maintain a summary of insurances held and any gaps in cover for periodical review by the Board of Directors
  • Keep up to date with current reforms surrounding clinical negligence/personal injury claims, legislation regarding disclosure of records etc.
  • Develop and maintain departmental procedures and guidelines to support the efficient processing of clinical negligence, property and liability claims liaising with internal departments and external bodies, such as defence solicitors, expert witnesses, and NHS Resolution
  • Responsible for the development and maintenance of effective internal reporting systems as agreed with the Associate Director for Quality and external reporting systems as required by NHS resolution
  • Monitor the adequacy of these reporting systems in accordance with changing requirements
  • Prepare and present reports in accordance with defined timescales to the Chief Medical Officer, senior managers, and appropriate committees
  • Ensure the claims database is utilised effectively to provide key data for internal and external reporting requirements
  • Responsible for the training of the legal team in the use of existing and new computerised systems
  • Utilise departmental software fully in the provision of professional services
  • To work with the Patient Safety Specialist to develop and deliver an annual multi-professional training programme across the Trust to support learning from Claims and Inquests
  • Authorise invoice request forms in relation to fees for the disclosure of copy healthcare records
  • Chair departmental meetings and act as departmental representative at other in-house meetings as required
  • Such other duties at a comparable level of responsibility as may normally be agreed with the jobholder
  • The postholder will support the Trust in improving the quality and value of services by learning from legal issues, including the 'Getting it Right First Time' guidance on learning from claims
  • The postholder will be responsible for ensuring 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
  • Work closely with the wider Quality team and other departments to ensure that there is a combined approach to the management of inquests, claims, complaints, and patient safety incident response reports when required
**Financial**
  • Supporting good budget management, co-ordinating and monitoring expenditure
  • Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets, and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year
**Leadership and Management**
  • Promote and implement best practice in the management of claims against the Trust
  • Manage staff within the Legal Services Team, including staff development, appraisal and performance management, identification of training requirements, sickness, absence, grievance, and disciplinary procedures etc.
  • Support, motivate and develop staff within the department and more widely in healthcare law issues, leading and promoting best ethical and professional practice within a multi-disciplinary network
  • Identify and champion remedial action, which may be needed to avoid recurrence of adverse events
  • Ensure the appropriate level of resource is available within the legal services team to enable staff to undertake their roles
**General**
  • To work in accordance with the Trust's Values to consistently demonstrate the behaviours required
  • To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments
  • Enhance own performance through continuously developing own knowledge, skills and behaviours to meet the current and future requirements of the job and respond to the learning needs of the Trust