Senior Healthcare Lawyer | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £72,921 - £83,362 inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 9RT |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7351573/196-COF10840-T |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and talented healthcare lawyer to join our dynamic and busy in-house Clinical Legal Services team as the Senior Healthcare Lawyer leading the Trust’s Coroners’ Inquests team.
You must be a qualified solicitor or barrister registered in England & Wales, experienced in advising the NHS on the wide range of medico-legal issues that arise in a busy acute hospital environment. You will support and work closely with senior managers, clinical and administrative staff, and with key external stakeholders, including Coroners and Coroners’ Officers. Patient safety is core to every aspect of the job, which provides a great opportunity for a motivated individual to support improvements in the safety of care.
You will need highly developed communication skills so as to be able to influence and effect change internally and when representing the Trust and supporting clinical staff in Coroners’ Courts and other matters.
· Supporting the Head of Clinical Legal Services in the day to day management of the Trust’s portfolio of Coroners’ Inquests by leading and managing the Trust’s Inquest team, including the Inquest Manager and Paralegal Apprentice.
· Taking a leading role in relation to the Trust’s Inquests portfolio, including liaising with Coroners, attending pre-inquest review hearings and inquest hearings and undertaking advocacy where appropriate.
· To provide general advice to the Trust upon a variety of healthcare issues, often on an urgent/emergency basis, including the management of Court of Protection and Inherent Jurisdiction proceedings.
· Ensuring that the Trust’s staff are supported in relation to inquests and advisory matters, and to assist in the development and delivery of staff training on medico-legal topics as required.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Organisational Values:
The post holder will be:
Caring –we put patients first
Ambitious – we innovate and strive for excellence
Inclusive –we respect each other and work collaboratively
Our values and behaviours framework describes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action. The framework can be found on our Trust jobs pages and our intranet.
Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for the specific requirements of the post attached.
This advert closes on Sunday 3 Aug 2025