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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
3 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Essential
RSA Typing Skills 3
- Essential
Legal secretarial qualification or equivalent experience
- Essential
Understanding of structure of NHS and medical specialties
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Essential
Knowledge of Inphase database
Job overview
As a Legal Secretary, you will be working as an integral part of the Legal Services Team ensuring that claims, inquests and requests for inhouse legal advice are registered and acted upon in a timely manner in accordance with relevant guidelines and policies; working unsupervised and able to take decisions using experience and knowledge.
As part of this role you will be required to:
- act as a first point of contact for telephone/email enquiries from departments, Consultants and other senior staff, solicitors and other legal personnel and patients
- provide a comprehensive administrative, secretarial and IT service of the highest quality to lawyers, ensuring that all information is accurately recorded
- collate medical records and documentation from multiple electronic and hard copy sources and prepare for disclosure in accordance with the relevant SOP
- work collaboratively with team members to ensure accurate data recording and production of reports and documents as requested.
Main duties of the job
The department is responsible for managing a broad range of medico-legal matters affecting the Trust.
We have a team of experienced specialist lawyers handling claims and inquests, providing in-house legal advice and supporting training to staff and to student doctors at the University of East Anglia.
In addition, the team manages Subject Access Requests from third parties for medical records.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached job description for full details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the Job description.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some post, this post may close before the displayed closing date, we recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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This advert is for Legal Secretary with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Norwich, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Secretary role. The advertised salary is £28,392 - £31,157 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 07 Sep 2026.
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