Healthcare Legal Services Manager

Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust in a key management role. We are looking for a lawyer who shares our passion to support staff in the delivery of outstanding healthcare and demonstrates the Trust’s values to achieve that aim.

We recognise that working in-house is a niche role and would be keen to hear from candidates with relevant experience who have an interest in developing a fulfilling career in the NHS.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Healthcare Legal Services Manager is to lead the Salisbury Healthcare Legal Team in the provision of a dedicated in-house legal service, to mitigate risk and achieve costs savings, across the following core areas:

• Healthcare advice: including but not limited to consent, capacity, data protection, Mental Health Act and regulatory proceedings, for both adults and children.
• Disclosure requests from the police and local authority on childcare and criminal proceedings, where the Trust may not be a party to proceedings.
• Claims: management of Clinical Negligence and Third Party Claims, in line with NHSR’s schemes. We work closely with clinicians and our Divisions to robustly defend claims, protecting the interests of the Trust.
• Inquests: support and representation of staff in the Coroner’s Court. We work closely with our local Coroners on a large portfolio of inquests.
• Training: internal and external training on above core areas of work.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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