Claims and Inquests Paralegal Apprentice

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000

Job description

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation is seeking applications for two (2) Claims and Paralegal Apprentices to join its Clinical Legal Services Team. This is an exciting opportunity for motivated individuals to obtain a Level 3 Paralegal qualification via a 24-month apprenticeship, whilst gaining unique and valuable practical experience in a dynamic and busy in-house legal department. The intention is for each Paralegal Apprentice to work for 12 months in each of the Claims and Inquests teams (on rotation).

The Trust’s Clinical Legal Services Team, which sits within the Trust’s Quality & Assurance Directorate and is led by the Trust’s Head of Clinical Legal Services, provides the following 3 core services to the Trust:

• Clinical negligence and personal injury claims advice, management and support;
• Coroner’s Inquests advice, management and support;
• Healthcare law advice, management and support.

The Claims and Inquests Paralegal Apprentices will undertake, subject to supervision, the day-to-day administrative tasks required to support the Trust's Clinical Legal Services Team, focusing particularly on the core Claims and Inquests services. The post-holders will be expected to cross-cover for the Claims and Inquests Managers as well as each other, when necessary, to support team resilience.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Janet Placid Job title: Office Manager, Quality & Assurance Directorate Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 020 7188 7699