Job summary
- Main area
- Legal Services
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 040-AC162-0625-A
- 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Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.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 Assistant Legal Services Manager. As a professional manager working at corporate level across the organisation, the post offers exposure to a broad range of Coroner and Inquest work.
The Assistant Legal Services Manager will be part of the Inquest Team within Legal Services, which is part of the Corporate Nursing Team. Supervised by the lead Legal Services Manager for inquests, the postholder will assist in managing the Health Board’s inquests and Coroner matters.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
Daily responsibility for the conduct and management of your own Inquest caseload, communicating directly with staff across the Health Board, including senior members of the Executive Team and members of the Board. The postholder will work independently and be a self-managing professional with day-to-day responsibility for oversight and progression of their caseload. Senior members of the team will be available to support. To provide an integral role to ensure efficient management of all investigations and inquests by HM Coroner’s office. To ensure sound working relationships internally and externally to deliver a demanding portfolio of work
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. 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
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
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
Qualifications & Knoweldge
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent demonstrable level of knowledge and experience PLUS Specialist knowledge of Inquests, civil claims, PTR Regulations to post graduate Diploma level
Desirable criteria
- Law degree
- Legal qualification
- CILEX Member
- Knowledge of Datix or Case Management Systems
Skills & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Positive attitude towards change
- Ability to represent the legal service team in a professional manner at all times
- Able to provide and receive complex and sensitive information
- Able to maintain concentration with frequent interruption
- Ability to work in often difficult or emotional circumstances
- Conscientious, confident, flexible and professional approach to work
- Ability to prioritise and organise own work
- Ability to recognise own capabilities
- Evidence of excellent client care skills
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh (please delete as appropriate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a case management role
- Experience supporting individuals in difficult situations
- Experience in a fast paced, high-volume environment, working to deadlines
- Dealing with emotional, sensitive and sympathetic situations
- Writing formal reports and briefings to a wide and varied audience
- Production and analysis of performance data
- Experience of conflict resolution and dealing with difficult situations
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working for or with NHS organisations
- Experience managing inquests, claims or related areas
- Experience of Datix risk management system or other case management systems
Other
Essential criteria
- Requirement to work outside normal working hours on occasion
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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