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Head of Legal

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**

Person specification

Education / Qualification

Essential criteria

  • Educated to Master's level in law with significant post graduate experience working in the public sector
  • Experience in a senior management role within a complex environment

Experience

Essential criteria

  • Evidence a track record of demonstrable legal experience, influencing skills and ability to motivate others to deliver key targets and goals.
  • Experience of procuring external legal advice and acting as the primary point of contact for legal advice to an organization, proactively managing external providers
  • Track record of advising Organisational leaders on legal responsibility and liability.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

  • Ability to provide counsel and advice to Executive and Governing Body Members and provide challenge when necessary.
  • Ability to lead strategically and provide practical advice

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

  • Job Description (PDF, 552.3KB)
  • CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)

Head of Legal

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK
Full-Time

Published on 11/11/2024

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