Solicitor/Associate - Healthcare Litigation - #1671611

About Hempsons

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With 250 staff and lawyers working across our five offices nationwide, Hempsons is a leading law firm for the health and social care, charity and social enterprise sectors. We are the leading national defendant law firm, with all three of our offices ranked as ‘top tier’ by the Legal 500 and many of our team attracting individual praise. We advise NHS Resolution, NHS trusts, healthcare practitioners and medical defence organisations on wide ranging and important issues providing intelligent and novel solutions and are described as ‘second to none’ by Chambers and Partners.

Our aim is to provide outstanding legal services that deliver the best possible client outcomes whilst nurturing a culture that makes us a “great place to work”.

The Team

We are the leading national defendant clinical negligence firm, with three of our offices ranked as ‘top tier’ by the Legal 500 and many of our team attracting individual praise.

Our 70+ strong team of lawyers advise the NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts and medical defence organisations on wide ranging and important issues providing intelligent and novel solutions and are described as ‘second to none’ by Chambers and Partners.

The team is strengthened by a number of former doctors, nurses and other clinicians and is recognised for its knowledge of the healthcare field.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Solicitor (minimum of 2 PQE) or Associate level candidate with strong clinical negligence experience to join our Healthcare Litigation team and work alongside them on the extensive range of services we provide.

The Role

This role will provide you with the opportunity to join one of the country's leading healthcare law firms.

Our team in Manchester are looking for an experienced healthcare litigation lawyer, who will undertake a wide variety of healthcare litigation work for the NHS and other public and private healthcare providers. There may also be an opportunity to undertake client secondments.

Key Responsibilities

Duties to include but not limited to;

• Drafting of reports to clients
• Preparation and attendance of trials and mediations;
• Interviewing witnesses and drafting of statements
• Cost management;
• Multi-party litigation;
• ADR/mediation agency arbitration;
• Negotiation of settlement;
• Client training including; presentations, seminars and webinars
  
  

Skills & Competencies

• Previous healthcare litigation experience, more specifically handling complex clinical negligence cases, ideally from another panel firm or medical defence insurer or indemnifier
• Familiar with issues relevant to our clients within the healthcare sector
• Able to demonstrate and ability of managing/supervising less experienced Solicitors, Trainees or Paralegals (desirable)
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Able to uphold strong confidentiality and ensure compliance with client requirements
• Able to work to tight deadlines and targets
• Flexible and willing to take on a varied workload
• Able to work as part of a wider team
  
  

What can we offer you?

Our benefits package is designed to enable all colleagues to thrive in an inclusive and supportive environment. These benefits include; holiday purchase scheme, private health insurance, life assurance, critical illness cover, season ticket loans, cycle-to-work scheme and much more.

Hempsons is an equal opportunities employer

Hempsons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all and to encouraging diversity through recruitment. Applications are welcome from all sections of the community and decisions to progress will be made with reference to entirely objective criteria only.

Hempsons is an agile firm and is open to conversations about flexible working, we operate a hybrid working environment.