Job Role: Paralegal
Hours: 09:00-17:00, Monday to Friday (37.5 hours a week)
As the winner of two Working Families’ awards for ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Recruitment 2022’ and ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Department: Health Litigation
Location: London
Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
Here are some examples of what we offer:
- 25 days’ annual leave
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Flexible, agile and home working
- BUPA
- Permanent health insurance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Medicash
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day policy
- Training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment
Role overview
Introduction to the role:
This role involves supporting solicitors with management of their cases including attending conferences, settlement meetings, court and assisting in drafting witness statements, court documents etc. The role may also require the paralegal to be seconded to clients to support claims and inquest management.
Introduction to the team:
This role provides the opportunity to join one of the fastest growing teams in Hill Dickinson. The Health Litigation team have been growing year-on-year with a team of over 100 lawyers and national coverage, we are one of the leading firms providing legal advice and support to the NHS and independent healthcare organisations.
Our Health team can genuinely say it is award winning, we have previously been named as Legal Services Provider of the Year by the Health Service Journal. We were also shortlisted in the HealthInvestor Awards 2020.
Key responsibilities:
- Assisting solicitors with the running of clinical negligence cases for NHS Resolution.
- Instructing experts and obtaining factual evidence from witnesses.
- Drafting Letters of Responses for review by solicitors.
- Updating clients and taking responsibility for meeting deadlines.
What we are looking for
Essential:
- The ability to work independently in addition to as part of a team
- Ability to deliver technically accurate and appropriate advice to clients
- Ability to work to deadlines and run an effective diary system
- Adheres to guidelines and procedures
- Demonstrates understanding of client needs/expectations
- Ability to interact and communicate with client and keep them up-to-date
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to influence and negotiate
- Shows commercial awareness in understanding of the market and sector
Desirable:
- Some prior experience in clinical negligence
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.
We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.
Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background.
Disability Support
We are a Disability Confident employer, which means that we will make reasonable adjustments to help you perform at your best. Please contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.
At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
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