Band 8b Legal Services Manager

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust ("BCHC") has a great opportunity for a Legal Services Manager to join us on a permanent full-time basis. The successful applicant will be a solicitor with a current Practicing Certificate looking for a diverse and challenging work environment within a dynamic and growing team.

Main duties of the job

The Legal Services Manager role is based within our Information Governance & Legal Services Team, reporting to our Head of Information Governance & Legal Services. Our Legal Services Team is directly involved in and responsible for all the legal aspects of BCHC's activities, supporting all directorates including Clinical Directorates and specialist teams within our Corporate Directorate. We also work with and procure external Legal Services to support the Legal Services Team.

As the Legal Services Manager for BCHC, you will work collaboratively with our wider Corporate Governance Team and internal clients within BCHC, to ensure that legal tasks are carried out and coordinated efficiently. With your professional, confident and diligent manner, you will display exceptional communication skills in working with internal and external partners. You will also have excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your workload, pay high attention to detail, and undertake your day to day role with minimal supervision.

As a practising solicitor you will represent BCHC in court proceedings, particularly in the Coroner's Court and the Court of Protection, and oversee claims made against the Trust.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

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