Vacancy: Paralegal/Solicitor – Psychiatric Injury

Oakwood Solicitors; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Vacancy: Paralegal/Solicitor – Psychiatric Injury

Reporting to: Head of Psychiatric Injury Department

Department: Psychiatric Injury

An award-winning Leeds firm is looking for an experienced fee earner to join their busy and well-established Psychiatric Injury Department.

The department deals with a variety of psychiatric illness matters but specializes in the niche area of Stress at Work claims. The vacancy involves managing an established caseload of Stress at Work claims with the opportunity for future involvement with other psychiatric illness matters.

At Oakwood Solicitors, we are dedicated to delivering a professional, yet friendly and personal service that puts clients first and is flexible and considerate of their mental health needs.

Key Tasks

• Managing (under supervision) a caseload of complex and predominantly multi-track personal injury cases for psychiatric illness caused by stress at work;
• Undertaking fee earning work and providing a profitable contribution to the Firm;
• Minimum of 5 years’ fee earning experience;
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience of dealing with and handling litigated personal injury cases in areas such as Industrial Disease and/or Clinical Negligence.

Desired Experience

• Some experience in handling Employment Tribunal cases or good knowledge of employment law in consideration of the overlap between personal injury and employment in stress at work cases;
• Experience in working with vulnerable clients/individuals;
• Working knowledge of using the case management system Proclaim;
• Confident and polite telephone manner;
• Ability to organise and prioritise work;
• Ability to cope well in a demanding environment;
• Analytical approach to reviewing information;
• Flexible attitude to work;
• Ability to work as part of a team.

Dependent upon experience, plus a competitive bonus scheme based on fee income.

Working Hours

• Full-time role;
• Monday to Friday – 09:00 to 17:00;
• Flexible home working with at least 3 days requested in the office.