Solicitor - Inquests and Inquiries in Whitehall

All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.

Hempsons are part of the HF group of companies and are leading legal experts in the sectors of health and social care, charities, clinical negligence and professional support and advice for medical practitioners.

They support the NHS and other organisations across the public, private and third sectors, delivering expert legal advice drawn from deep sector knowledge and experience.

Hempsons Inquests and Inquiries Team provides legal advice, advocacy, training and support services to health, social care and charity sector clients.

The team is highly rated and undertakes a range of complex and high-profile work in a supportive, collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

We currently have an opportunity for an Inquests Solicitor or Associate to join our team to undertake a range of work, with a primary focus on inquests.

In addition to inquests, there will be an opportunity to support clients on other matters such as public inquiries, investigations and patient safety and learning work.

There may be opportunities to assist the Regulatory Team with regulatory investigations, professional regulatory and criminal matters.

We are looking for a candidate wanting to focus on and developing their advocacy skills whilst proactively supporting our clients in learning from deaths and incidents.

• Manage a caseload of work (primarily inquests) with appropriate supervision.
• Advise clients on a varied caseload (including acute healthcare, mental health, and specialist health and care services) with appropriate supervision.
• Provide clear factual and legal analysis, including preparing and making complex legal submissions.
• Undertake advocacy, often in complex multi-agency inquests where Article 2 is engaged.
• Communicate effectively with clients, witnesses, Coroners and other professionals and stakeholders.
• Act as a key contact for clients and support client relationship management and business development activities, including training, commensurate to experience.
• Build internal and external relationships and promote the work of the team and wider healthcare division, identifying and developing new opportunities for growth.
• Provide supervision and mentorship, commensurate to experience.
• Handle sensitive and confidential information and otherwise act in accordance with firm policies and procedures.
• Maintain good financial management, including time recording and billing.
• A qualified solicitor or barrister with previous experience of coronial law, or a related practice area. xsabvtc
• Experience of advising health and social care clients would be highly advantageous, but consideration will be given to those with experience of advising and representing families in inquests where appropriate advocacy experience has been gained.
• Experience in another area (public inquiries, investigations or regulatory) is advantageous but n
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