Healthcare Solicitor
- Employer
- Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
- Location
- Exeter
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 24 Sep 2020
- Reference
- J59092
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- Practice area
- Clinical negligence
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years
- Position
- Solicitor
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
Exeter
A well established nationwide firm seek a Solicitor to join their Exeter office on a full time basis within their clinical negligence team.
You will be a solicitor conducting clinical negligence claims on behalf of a range of defendant clients and in particular acting for NHS Resolution. You will work in a team that provides a range of high quality legal services on complex matters. You may also have the opportunity to become involved with healthcare inquest and advisory work.
Main duties:
· Delivering exceptional client service, including proactive, strategic and commercial management of claims
· Managing your own caseload and supporting experienced colleagues on high value and complex claims, all in accordance with client requirements and SLAs
· Delegation and supervision of tasks to more junior lawyers and legal assistants where appropriate
· Providing responsive secondment support to key clients remotely and on site
· Undertaking legal research, advising on the implications of new statutes, regulations, directives and case law
Experience Required:
· Familiarity with Microsoft Office, and ideally with experience of appropriate case management systems
· Familiarity with online and library research facilities
· Attention to detail with the ability to explain/advise clients on complex technical aspects of process and procedure
· Clinical negligence experience as well as experience in inquest or healthcare advisory work
· Committed to recording time promptly; meeting financial goals with track record in achieving targets including minimum six and a half hours chargeable time each day
Apply now for immediate consideration!
Company
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment are multi-award winning legal recruitment experts.
Our business – put simply – is to remove the pain points candidates may otherwise experience on their journeys.
Sure, we act for legal professionals of all levels making lateral moves, taking steps up the ladder or looking for contract legal opportunities.
And yes we can boast a network of connections that spans nationwide private practice, the UK’s in house legal departments and now the Middle East, Asia and the Far East.
But we are the only REC and APSCO affiliated legal recruitment specialist with an ISO9001 accredited quality management system and the Investors In People Gold Standard award.
And by externally validating our day to day activities in the wider business community we have been able to place customer experience at the heart of our business proposition.
Which means people like dealing with our team – a very experienced, settled and happy bunch they epitomise the Douglas Scott brand personality and will demonstrate a genuine interest in you and your career.
- Website
- http://www.douglas-scott.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0161 233 6360
- Location
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Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
No1 Spinningfields
1 Hardman Square, Spinningfields
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3EB
GB
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