Healthcare Legal Services Manager

Job summary

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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About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk