Healthcare Solicitor

2 weeks ago

Bolton, Bolton, United Kingdom North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced healthcare solicitor to join our team at North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust. As a key member of our Legal and Resolution team, you will play a crucial role in representing and acting as the Trust authority in formal legal proceedings, providing an advocacy service in respect of litigation or contentious inquest cases, and providing general legal and advisory services across the Trust.

Key Responsibilities

  • Represent the Trust in Coroners' courts and Civil courts, providing an advocacy service in respect of litigation or contentious inquest cases.
  • Provide general legal and advisory services across the Trust, working under the supervision of the Head of Resolution with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Work with a high degree of autonomy, representing and acting as the Trust authority in formal legal proceedings.
  • Provide an advocacy service in respect of litigation or contentious inquest cases, as well as providing general legal and advisory services across the Trust.

Requirements

  • Law Degree, Legal Practice Course (LPC) or equivalent.
  • Qualified practising solicitor with post graduate diploma in legal practice.
  • Trained to masters level or equivalent.
  • Evidence of continued professional development.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate highly contentious and sensitive legal information often in a hostile atmosphere.
  • Ability to take evidence from witnesses and present in court.
  • Ability to negotiate and advise on the settlement of claims.
  • Excellent facilitation and negotiation skills.
  • High quality report writing and legal statement drafting skills.
  • Ability to analyse, evaluate and summarise highly complex and/or contentious data.
  • Approachable and supportive, ability to work within a team.
  • Ability to work flexibly with occasional need to work unsocial hours.
  • Ability to travel regularly across the NW to meetings with client and to attend coroners court etc often at short notice.
  • Remain calm in a very busy environment.
  • Personal resilience – the role will involve reading about and hearing difficult and distressing situations on a daily basis e.g. non-accidental injury to children, vulnerable adults, child abuse, substance abuse, fatal accidents, both from a staff perspective and from a patient perspective.
  • High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude.
  • Expected to be able to frequently concentrate intensely for prolonged periods of time - reading legal documentation, case papers, note taking, conducting examination and cross examination of witnesses in court or tribunal over a period of several days.
  • Required to spend sustained periods sitting still at a desk or in court.

About Us

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport. Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed. We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need. Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident. We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

What We Offer

We are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet our minimum selection criteria at each stage of the selection process. We will not tolerate discrimination on any of the following: gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, working pattern, caring responsibilities trade union activity or political beliefs-or any other grounds. The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of staff from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. We encourage applications from all backgrounds to improve the diversity of our workforce and to better reflect the communities we serve to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place; every time.

How to Apply

If you are a motivated and experienced healthcare solicitor looking for a new challenge, please submit your application. We look forward to hearing from you.

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