Solicitor - Medical Negligence

Solicitor - Medical Negligence

Department: Lime - Medical Negligence - Medical Negligence - Medical Negligence - 2001

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Leicester

Description

Are you a qualified Medical/Clinical Negligence Solicitor seeking a fresh challenge?

Excited by the prospect of being a key player in the exciting expansion of both Lime Solicitors and our Leicester office?

If you're ready to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you

You’ll work with our senior lawyers to assist on wide range of cases, build up your own caseload and help our team to deliver a fantastic service to our clients.

• The opportunity to be a key part of the team working with leaders to help develop and define the Clinical Negligence function.
• Having you own caseload and building a portfolio that will develop your career in the Leicester/East Midlands market

This role will require you to be in the Leicester office at least once per week.

Key Responsibilities

Our Clinical Negligence team deal with claims arising as a result of healthcare professionals acting against the interests of our client’s health.

We advise clients who have suffered physical, mental or economic loss as a result of this negligence and guide them through the initial investigation into their claim and thereafter proceeding through the pre-action and post issue phases of County and High Court litigation.

We also regularly attend our client’s inquests. Our specialist team have dealt with thousands of claims against hospital trusts, private healthcare providers, care homes, individual GPs and dentists on a variety of different injuries ranging from low to high severity, with particular expertise in relation to fatal claims, industrial disease cases, amputations, brain injury and multiple injuries.

You will be an integral part of our Leicester team, attending events, and being a visible presence in the office as we grow.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• a minimum of 2 years’ experience working on clinical negligence cases, including issued cases
• proven experience of dealing with complex and straightforward claims
• strong IT skills
• commercial awareness
• a desire to exceed client expectations
• a high degree of initiative and the ability to cope in a demanding environment
• excellent organisational and prioritising skills
• the ability to work in a busy teamexcellent communication skills
• a desire to enhance client relationships through day to day activity
• routinely recording 100% of chargeable time per month
• feeling and exhibiting empathy for our clients
• a desire to build a profile in Leicester / East Midlands including getting involved with Leicester office initiatives
• importantly a sense of humour and a desire to be an integral part of a strong and ambitious team

Benefits, Agile Working and Additional information

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

We have the following hubs across the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stratford upon Avon & Tunbridge Wells.

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Additional information: Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Equal opportunities Lime, as part of the Ampa Group is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.

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