Director of Legal Services

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or please contact us for a discussion

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters level in legal practice
• A qualified and practising solicitor, significant post qualification experience successfully managing a substantial case load, advance specialist knowledge, expertise and experience in this field or similar (related) field (work experience equivalent of doctorate level education)
• Significant additional role related and personal development training and evidence of the SRA required ongoing continued professional development.
• Awareness of national and local policy, legislation and regulations and the latest developments in healthcare law

Desirable criteria

• Leadership qualification / training
• Project management training / qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of managing, leading and building teams
• Ability to demonstrate strategic vision as well as a track record of leading a team through a change process
• Significant experience advising at a senior level on the full range of health and/or regulatory law issues
• Demonstrate extensive experience of delivering across an organisation
• Specialist legal knowledge across a wide range of legal disciplines
• Evidence of resilience and diplomacy to lead and support change within the service
• Demonstrable skills in planning over the short, medium and long term, with the ability to constantly assess, adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Ability to provide clear and informative reporting information in relation to the Trust's legal position, cases and risks.
• Appreciation of the context of in house NHS legal services regulation and legislation and the context of how they apply within organisations.
• Experience of undertaking advocacy in court and/or at inquests. The post holder must have rights of audience to allow them to appear before Coroners and Judges.
• Extensive experience of analysing highly complex information and producing reports to tight deadlines. Experience presenting this information within a large, complex organisation
• Experience developing and delivering training on a variety of legal topics to a wide range of recipients.
• Extensive experience of managing sensitive issues within sometimes hostile or emotional situations
• Wide range of experience of working under pressure to agreed time-scales.
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales

Desirable criteria

• Be a registered Law Society Training Principal and be responsible for the training
• Experience of working in an in-house legal team in an Acute NHS Trust
• Legal knowledge to include clinical negligence, Coroner's inquests, employers' and public liability, statutory/regulatory law and general healthcare advisory.
• Experience of working in a complex healthcare / NHS environment

Communication

Essential criteria

• Excellent and highly effective communication and interpersonal skills at all levels, a highly credible leader with experience of building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Post holder must be able to communicate confidently and effectively at all levels - the role involves receiving and providing highly complex, sensitive, emotionally charged and contentious information. They must have the ability to negotiate, persuade and influence in order to bring about change. Includes communication to Board members and senior individuals within the organisation and external stakeholders.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

For more details visit; School leaving age - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are 'at risk' of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

International Recruitment: If you are applying for a role with us from outside of the UK then please read the guidance on applying for a health or social care job in the UK from abroad.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month's pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Director of Legal Job Description (PDF, 1016.4KB)
• Director of Legal Person Spec (PDF, 416.4KB)
• Mindful Employer (PDF, 242.5KB)
• Equality and Diversity (PDF, 122.3KB)
• Equal Opportunities (PDF, 57.4KB)
• Disability Confidence Scheme (PDF, 51.0KB)
• Rehabilitation of Ex Offenders (PDF, 106.0KB)
• Application Process Booklet (PDF, 24.8MB)