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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire.
We brought together Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2014
Our aim is simple. We want to provide the highest quality healthcare possible to you.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough. Sometimes it’s easier for you if we come closer to home so we run outpatient clinics and diagnostic services from Aldershot, Farnham, Fleet, Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell and Chalfont St Peter.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other. So whether you use our services or are just visiting you can expect us to be Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
We have strong links to our communities through our 24,000 foundation trust members representing patients, partners and staff, making sure we stay connected to what is important to you.
Source: Trust Website
Head of Legal Services
Accepting applications until: 02-Jan-2025 18:00
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 02-Jan-2025 18:00
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Portsmouth Road
- Tref
- Frimley
- Cod post
- GU16 7UJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Surrey
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: cross site working
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £64,337 - £74,415 Per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Dyddiad y cyfweliad
- 10/01/2025
Trosolwg o'r swydd
FHFT have an exciting opportunity to lead the Legal Services Team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. The team works closely with the patient safety and governance as well as the clinical teams.
You will be responsible for managing a caseload of claims and inquests in accordance with national and local policies and procedures. You will liaise with individuals at all levels, including the Trust executive team, solicitors, NHS Resolution, HM Coroner, the police and members of the public.
You will have a detailed understanding of civil law procedures and the principles of negligence. You will be able to work in a high pressure environment and will have excellent communication skills. You will also have the capacity to deal with highly sensitive situations and the ability to work effectively and professionally with colleagues across the Trust and with external agencies
This position is full time cross site role. You will report directly to the Deputy Chief Nurse.
Advert
- Leadership and management of Legal Services Team
- Trust lead for management of inquests
- Manage the litigation function within the Trust, including all aspects of medico-legal, personal injury and property expense claims
- Budget holder for NHSR scheme contributions
- To provide/obtain legal advice on Court of Protection matters and other matters as required.
- To identify and progress issues of concern that arise during claims and inquest investigations in order to reduce the instances of poor outcomes, subsequent potential claims and associated costs
- To provide legal advice and guidance where required to the Trust
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
- Leadership and management of Legal Services Team
- Trust lead for management of inquests
- Manage the litigation function within the Trust, including all aspects of medico-legal, personal injury and property expense claims
- Budget holder for NHSR scheme contributions
- To provide/obtain legal advice on Court of Protection matters and other matters as required.
- To identify and progress issues of concern that arise during claims and inquest investigations in order to reduce the instances of poor outcomes, subsequent potential claims and associated costs
- To provide legal advice and guidance where required to the Trust
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Postgraduate professional legal qualification (Barrister/Solicitor) with current practising certificate, or equivalent master’s degree
- Advocacy training (or equivalent experience)
- Risk management/Root cause analysis (or equivalent experience.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Acute hospital litigation experience.
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Significant specialist experience of managing negligence and insurance claims and issues. • Healthcare litigation experience. • NHS Insurance provision. • Experience of leading highly complex negotiations across departmental boundaries in difficult and hostile circumstances where opinions frequently conflict.
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Acute hospital litigation experience. • Experience of contributing to patient safety and quality initiatives resulting from claims.
Skills & Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Able to work autonomously and with discretion within legal and Trust frameworks
- • Excellent communication skills; ability to negotiate and communicate complex and contentious issues and information, influencing change to senior individuals within and without the organisation
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Frequent exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances. Some occasional exposure to highly distressing/emotional circumstances
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- alison szewczyk
- Teitl y swydd
- Deputy Chief Nurse
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 03006134644
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