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Claims and Litigation Manager | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 September 2024 |
| Location: | Beckenham, BR3 3BX |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6544029/334-NCL-6544029-TA |
Summary
We are seeking to recruit a qualified solicitor to manage our Legal Service team leading on all inquests, claims, litigations and legal advice relevant the Trust
To provide or manage legal advice from enquiries within the Trust on a wide range of work-related legal issues.
Manage all inquests involving the Trust patients ensuring the timely provision of all information required by Coroners and to provide support to staff involved in this process.
Manage all clinical negligence, personal injury and property claims against the Trust.
Manage ex-gratia payments for losses and damages claims by patients, staff and the public.
Contribute information and reports to the risk management systems for learning lessons to support staff to deliver the Trust Risk and Governance Strategy and Objectives.
Ensure that the Trust is adequately insured against relevant risks.
Bring to the attention of Senior Management, issues relating to reputational risk.
Review policies for legal compliance and give input on difficult complaint cases.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
1. Manage all legal advice enquiries from with the Trust on a wide range of work-related issues as the first point of contact for staff to obtain such legal advice. Providing or arranging timely legal advice, determining those cases where additional legal advice is required and then instructing and liaising with external solicitors in those cases.
2. Manage all clinical negligence, personal injury and property claims against the Trust. Managing all potential and actual clinical negligence, personal injury and property litigation claims against the Trust in a timely manner and within National Health Service Litigation Authority (NHSLA) guidelines. Liaising with the NHSLA their panel solicitors to provide information and documents to assist in determining liability and reducing costs where possible.
3. Manage ex-gratia payments for losses and damages claims by patients, staff and the public an proactively find ways to reduce costs and incidences of these claims. Investigate and mitigate costs for losses and damages by patients, staff and the public and as arising under the NHS complaints Procedure. Proactively find ways to reduce the costs and incidences of these claims. Collate and prepare the Trust Losses register for its DoH returns.
4. Manage all inquests involving the Trust patients.Ensure the timely provision of all information required by Coroner for inquests involving Trust patients and to provide support to staff involved in this process. Liaising with the Coroners courts, families, and solicitors in respect of the provision of reports, documents and witnesses for inquests. Identifying cases where representation at the inquest is required and either undertaking such representation or instructing external solicitors to represent the Trust where this is deemed advisable. Minimise legal costs for inquests. Reviewing all Serious incident reports, Clinician Reports and witness statements for inquest, preparing staff for attendance and supporting them throughout the whole process, including attending then inquest with them.
5. Provide the oversight and co-ordination of all Preventing Future Death reports, Court orders (S49 and others), Judicial Reviews etc received by the Trust to ensure effective and timely allocation, actioning and response.
6. Contribute information and reports to the risk management systems for learning lessons to support staff to deliver the Trusts Risk and Governance Strategy and Objectives, Provide information to the Quarterly Lessons to be learned reports and by annual claim inquest reports.
7. Ensure that the Trust is adequately insured against relevant risks. Arranging and maintaining in date suitable and cost-effective insurance cover for defined risks.
8. Bring to the attention of Senior Management issues relating to reputational risk. Liaising with Senior Management in respect of any legal issues and the management of inquest or claims with the potential for significant litigation or reputational damage.
9. Review policies for legal compliance and give input on difficult complaint cases. To review all policies for legal compliance with the Human Rights Act. Assist staff and review letters on difficult complaints as requested and where compensation is indicated.
10. Line manage staff in the Legal Service team,providing direction, co-ordination, and visible team leadership to ensure the effective work load management and service delivery.Manage the allocated budget.
This advert closes on Sunday 25 Aug 2024