Job summary
- Main area
- Legal Services
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 040-AC162-0625
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Grange House Llanfrechfa Grange site
- Town
- Cwmbran
- Salary
- £30,420 - £37,030 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Legal Services Manager
Band 5
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, enthusiastic and motivated Legal Services Manager. As a professional manager working at corporate level across the organisation, the post offers exposure to a broad range of work including clinical negligence and personal injury claims, Coroner Inquests, Patient Redress under the “Putting Things Right” Regulations and general legal matters affecting the Health Board and its staff.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for a mixed portfolio of work to personally manage and oversee encompassing Coroner inquests, preparation of witness statements, supporting staff to inquest; assessment and management of cases through the PTR Redress process, assessment of legal liability; clinical negligence and personal injury claims; collating and submitting Financial Reimbursement application to the Welsh Risk pool, including preparation of high level evidence of learning and assurance.
The post holder will have conduct of their own cases and as such should have relevant and suitable knowledge and experience from a claims, legal, inquest or related investigatory background.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a challenging but exciting role. The post requires an individual who is able to work under pressure, with competing demands, to strict deadlines, working at pace and with high volume complex and confidential matters. We are looking for an individual who has excellent organisational, analytical, and communication skills, with a desire and capability to work closely and effectively with managers, clinicians, and staff across all disciplines, including Coroner’s officers and other stakeholders
You must demonstrate initiative and have an enthusiasm to get the job done. The nature of the work can be demanding, requiring strong inter-personal skills with empathy and understanding for others vital, requiring tact, diplomacy and emotional strength and intellect.
Travel will be required between Health Board sites, external stakeholders, Courts and Inquests
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Experience
Essential criteria
- Masters level or equivalent in Law or related subjects
- Substantial work experience in areas of portfolio
- Managing a complex & significant portfolio of work across the disciplines required
- Evidence of working with highly complex and sensitive information at a high level
Desirable criteria
- Significant NHS experience at management level
- Legal qualification
- Clinical qualification
- Analytical or IT qualification
- Experience of patient safety/learning/improvement in a health care setting
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, written
- High level analytical and judgement skills
- Excellent report writing skills
- Well-developed IT skills with use of data base applications
- Research & investigatory skills
- Effective planning & organisational skills
- Willingness to support others
- Able to work effectively, at pace, with high volume, under pressure to meet deadlines
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable & significant knowledge of legislation across the areas of responsibility
- Good understanding of NHS and its operation
- Knowledge & understanding of claims, inquests, Putting Things Right Regulations and their application in the healthcare sector
- Understanding of Corporate and Clinical Governance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Garvin Jones
- Job title
- Head of Legal Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633 623591
- Additional information
Haf Jones
Assistant Head of Legal Services
01633 431667
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