Legal Administration Assistant

Role

Legal Administration Assistant

Hours: 35 hours a week (9am – 5pm)

As the winner of Working Families’ ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award ’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

Department: Health Litigation, Health Business Group

Location: Liverpool/ Warrington

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

We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our Health Business Group as a Legal Administration Assistant.

This role is an excellent way to gain exposure to how legal cases are handled and has previously proven a great stepping stone for progression for many of our now, qualified solicitors.

Reporting to the designated team leader, the Legal Administration Assistant will provide administrative support to the solicitors within the team, assisting in the key client, file management and compliance processes. There may also be opportunities to spend time on secondment with a client. This secondment will be based at an NHS Trust in Warrington.

As a fundamental aspect of the role the Legal Administration Assistant will be required to adhere at all times to the data protection requirements established by the Health Business Group.

Introduction to the team

The Health Litigation team specialises in defendant clinical negligence claims. Our main client is the NHS and but we have other defendant clinical negligence clients, including the Medical Protection Society.

Our Health team can genuinely say it is award winning, having received major recognition over the last few years, most recently being named as Legal Services Provider of the Year by the Health Service Journal.

Key responsibilities

• Providing support to the Head of the Team with the co-ordination of data information for clients
• File Management – creating and archiving files and ensuring compliance procedures are adhered to
• Records - archiving and recovery of records as requested by secretarial or fee earning staff
• Preparing case bundles and documenting against agreed protocols
• Creating chronologies of medical records
• Faxing, scanning, photocopying
• Filing
• Support and advice to all users of the service
• Hand deliveries, when required
• Printing e-mail attachments
• Answering the telephone
• Some legal work on files with view to progressing to a paralegal role

Additional duties

• Possibility of periods on secondment with a client at a future date

What we are looking for

Essential

• Organises own work effectively
• Seeks and accepts feedback and guidance
• Works flexibly to meet goals
• Competently follows agreed processes/methods
• Good team working skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrates understanding of client needs/expectations

Salary: GBP 25000 - 30000 per year