Legal Advisor | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 April 2026 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7807816/214-CEN-7807816 |
Summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a skilled Legal Advisor to manage a varied and complex portfolio of clinical negligence, employers’ liability, and public liability claims, while also providing expert support on inquests and wider healthcare legal matters. This role is central to ensuring the Trust meets its legal, regulatory and governance obligations while supporting high‑quality patient care.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead preliminary investigations into clinical negligence claims and inquests, reviewing healthcare records, analysing evidence, and preparing detailed case assessments.
• Identify and support witnesses, take statements, and quality‑assure reports to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Handle highly sensitive information with tact, supporting staff through legal processes and highlighting risk issues to promote learning and safety.
• Manage complex cases proactively, ensuring compliance with deadlines, protocols and NHS Resolution requirements.
• Liaise with NHS Resolution, panel solicitors, coroners, and internal teams to progress claims, inquests and disclosure.
You will bring strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to manage sensitive and complex legal matters with professionalism and confidence. Experience in healthcare law, claims management or inquests is highly desirable. Apply now to join our team!
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Apr 2026
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