Job summary
- Main area
- Legal
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 043-AC229-1124
- Employer
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Companies House / Alder House
- Town
- Cardiff / St Asaph
- Salary
- £63,150 - £73,379 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Lawyer- Court of Protection
Band 8b
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Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.
Job overview
Legal & Risk Services is a division of the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership which provides a comprehensive legal advisory service to the NHS.
Our Core Values, which are important in how we work with our clients and how we support our colleagues, are:
- Listening and Learning
- Working together
- Taking responsibility
- Innovating
We have an exciting opportunity for a senior experienced lawyer to join our Complex Patient Team with a particular focus on Court of Protection work. We advise and represent the whole of the NHS in Wales. Extensive experience in Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Mental Health Act, Court of Protection and deprivation of liberty of children is essential.
The types of cases we typically advise on include:
- Consent and capacity for adults and children
- Use of restraint
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (soon to transition to the Liberty Protection Safeguards)
- Mental Heath
- End of life decision making
- Inquests that have issues of Mental Health or Mental Capacity.
The Team are experts in their field who are regularly instructed in novel and high profile cases. We work closely with our clients’ Mental Health, Learning Disability, Paediatric, Nursing, and Intensive Care teams.
The work of Legal & Risk has been recognised in the awards we have won. We aim to push boundaries and continue to develop ways to support the important work of the NHS.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for screening and risk assessing new enquiries; liaising with clients and witnesses to investigate and prepare cases; taking witness statements and supporting witnesses through the court process; attending and undertaking advocacy at hearings at court; providing written advice to clients.
This will include reviewing medical records/reports, drafting letters to obtain evidence and leading in the preparation of client advice, witness statements, court bundles, and instructions to counsel.
As a senior lawyer you will be responsible for the line management, supervision and development of junior lawyers and paralegals. You will play a key strategic role in helping to develop the team and build close client relationships.
The ideal candidate for this position must have good communication skills, a confident approach to work and can demonstrate our core values. There will be a need for empathy and sensitivity due to the very personal nature of the cases we deal with.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Law Degree & Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (or equivalent)
- Qualified with litigation and advocacy rights
- Relevant Legal Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Higher Degree
- NHS Background
- Structure of NHS
- Mediation Qualification/Training
- Experience in clinical negligence teams
- Higher advocacy qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Further extensive experience in the relevant field/fields of Law i.e. Medical Law encompassing Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act; Human Rights (in particular Deprivation of Liberty); Court of Protection Rules; Coroner’s Inquests.
- Extensive experience of Advocacy in Court of Protection
- Extensive experience in drafting documents
- Experience of making presentations to non-legal staff.
Desirable criteria
- Extensive experience of Advocacy in Coroner’s Court.
- Advocacy at Mental Health Tribunals.
- Mediation
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- IT Skills/Computer literate to include the ability to learn new technologies and IT introduced
- Ability to communicate in all formats in plain English, with staff, senior staff, directors, on complex business and clinical negligence processes.
- Ability to negotiate in often difficult or emotional circumstances
- Ability to prioritise and organise own work whilst being an effective leader of the team
- Ability to recognise own capabilities
- Ability and enthusiasm to train, mentor and professionally supervise more junior members of the team
- Ability and enthusiasm to grow the work of the department and to build on and broaden the team’s reputation within and outside the NHS
- Conscientious, confident, flexible and professional approach to work
Desirable criteria
- Experience of writing reports suitable for senior and executive level audiences.
- Experience of using social media to promote individual professional achievements and to enhance the firm’s reputation
Values
Essential criteria
- Listening & Learning
- Working together
- Taking responsibility
- Innovating
Other
Essential criteria
- Willing to undertake further professional development
- Able to travel to undertake the duties of the post at various locations.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Speaker
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gavin Knox
- Job title
- Complex Patient Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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