Litigation Nurse

We are currently recruiting for an experienced and talented individual to join our Clinical Support team, which is part of our award-winning Clinical Negligence team, as a Litigation Nurse in our Manchester office.

The role of the Litigation Nurse is to assist the legal teams with record reviews and drafting allegations of Breach of Duty and resultant avoidable injury. Additional duties would also include analysing expert records, providing commentary and analysis of the impact of likely breach of duty and any avoidable injury over & above the patients pre-existing health conditions.

As part of the position it is key to review the merits of new enquiries and speak to our clients concerning their enquiry and subsequent investigation of their case.

There is also the opportunity to attend meetings with our charity partners and work in conjunction with our business development team, in order to raise awareness of our services and also to increase your profile within the Clinical Negligence market.

Whilst full legal training will be offered (where required), it would be expected that as part of the role to provide training and expert advice to our legal teams.

We would encourage those with a qualification and experience in nursing (such as RGN) and NMC registration to apply.

What we offer in return:

We have a wide range of core and voluntary benefits:

• Hybrid working – 2 days per week working in the office (must live a reasonable distance to commute to the office)
• 35 hours per week – Monday to Friday – Flexible and agile working environment
• 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Buy and sell annual leave up to 5 days
• Employee Referral scheme with payments up to £2000 per referral
• Group Incentive Plan (Annual Bonus Scheme)
• Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App providing you with services including annual health checks, access to Digital GP’s, mental health consultations, 2nd medical opinions and much more
• Employee Assistance Programme where you can access free webinars for stress awareness and counselling sessions
• Group Income Protection which will support you with an income if you are unable to work long term, as a result of a qualifying illness or injury
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes and apps including gym discounts, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, meditation sessions and much more
• Life Assurance cover
• Workplace pension
• Benefits Hub providing discounts to over 700 services including cinema tickets, food and drink, travel, and high street stores
• Dental Insurance
• Free legal help and discounted lawyer led legal services

Your Professional Development

We will support and encourage you with developing your career with an award- winning law firm. We run courses across our offices and are continuously monitoring and updating the learning and development offering based on what you tell us. We can support you with your continuous professional development by providing funding for professional qualifications, attending external training courses and providing you with a range of internal learning resources.

Our Values

Like all great businesses, we strive to recruit the best people and uphold the highest legal standards. Our people bring something a little different. We hire people who can challenge, remove roadblocks and deliver outstanding customer service. That's why at Slater + Gordon we go further with our values.

How we work is guided by the S+G Way. This means:

· We do what we say we will

· We don’t wait we create

· We own it, we sort it

· We respect and encourage each other

· We make time to live

The S+G Way defines the specific behaviours and actions that our colleagues and our customers care about the most. We know this, because our colleagues helped to create the way, through a series of interactive workshops and interviews.