Clinical Risk Solicitor 0-5yrs PQE

My client are seeking a 0-5+PQE Solicitor/Associate to join their growing and dynamic Defendant Clinical Risk team in Newcastle. This role presents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and passionate individual to join an award-winning, progressive and highly specialised team.
Their Clinical Risk cluster is the biggest nationally, located across 5 locations, in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Winchester and Newcastle.
They pride themselves on their supportive, approachable culture. They are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. Their strength as a firm comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.
Their flexible approach means that they help their colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work. Their vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for their insight and outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with their supportive culture, and you have: a Life that Works.
Role Responsibility

• Handling a challenging but fulfilling caseload of defendant clinical negligence work acting for a variety of clients, which may include work for NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts, MDU, independent providers, and medical malpractice insurers.
• Drafting legal documents, conducting face to face negotiations and mediation of claims, preparing cases for and adhering to court deadlines.
• Engaging in direct client care, acting as first and primary contact for clients on a day to day basis, providing them with commercially focused legal advice, and adhering to their protocols and processes.
• Making an appropriate contribution to non-fee-earning activity. You will be encouraged to participate in knowledge sharing, training, client seminars, writing articles for publication both for in-house and external publications, and business development.

The Ideal Candidate

• A 0-5+PQE Solicitor/Associate with experience in clinical negligence, personal injury, civil litigation, or insurance law.
• Experience of an NHS Resolution or MDO panel firm would be desirable but is not essential. We want the best candidates no matter what their background is.
• Strong technical and organisational skills to ensure a pragmatic and methodical approach to handling a variety of clinical negligence claims simultaneously, through an IT case management system.
• A demonstrable ability to adopt a commercial perspective rather than an ‘academic' approach to legal issues and to be highly client focused.
• Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to mentor, coach and supervise less experienced members of teams.

If you are interested in this opportunity and believe you have the relevant experience to be successful here please do not hesitate to apply, don't miss out on this amazing opportunity. 
For more information feel free to email me directly at ruby@douglas-scott.co.uk or call me for a chat on 0161 233 6360 ext 11060.