Senior Lawyer

Job Description

Senior Lawyer, Legal Support for Medical Law ServicesFletchers Group have a fantastic opportunity for an experience Solicitor to join the growing Legal Support team!Location: Southport/ Manchester/ Leeds/Liverpool/Hybrid If you are looking for a new role in a growing company that offers a great work life balance, fabulous benefits, and will support you and your goals, then this could be the role for you!The successful candidate will play a key role in undertaking assessments of medical negligence leads conducted by our medical legal acceptance team with a view to identifying cases where there are sufficient prospects to proceed. In addition, they will providelegal guidance where needed to the Medical Law Services Teams.The ideal candidate would have:

• Experience of handling medical negligence claims
• 8 years+ PQE
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent case management skills
• Good knowledge of medical conditions and ability to identify appropriate case categories
• To have precise and high-level attention to detail
• Ability to make research/knowledge-based decisions
• Analytical skills and a methodical approach
• Ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining high standards
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work as a team member and remotely

In return Fletchers can offer:

• A bonus scheme paid yearly (subject to targets being met)
• Competitive Salary
• Pension scheme with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option
• Life Assurance Policy
• Medicash policy to cover some dental, optical and other medical expenses
• 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days, holiday per year,
• Long service award 3 days extra holidays after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment.
• Enhanced company sick and maternity pay scheme
• Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work-life balance
• Varied calendar of funded company social events
• Monthly voucher awards

Our People:Our people are at the heart of everything we do! We take pride in the results gained for our clients and go the extra mile to get justice.Fletchers are an employer of choice, rated a top 80 Law Firm by the Times. Our culture drives our employees to achievethe best, not only for the customers but for their own growth, development, and wellbeing.So much has happened in the last year at Fletchers:

• We became Fletchers Group following several acquisitions - and have big plans for more growth
• We offered legal colleagues more training contracts than ever before
• Retained excellent rankings with both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners
• We opened 2 new office locations in Leeds and Liverpool (alongside Southport and Manchester)
• We launched our first ever Associate and Partner programmes for senior lawyers
• We launched the Fletchers Foundation charity to support injured people

That’s just to name a few, check out our website for more:Main Responsibilities:

• To review medical negligence leads rejected by Structure information decision support system (SIDSS) or medical legal team.
• To accept at Risk Assessment 1 (RA1) any cases which satisfy the acceptance criteria’ as set out in the firm’s policy document.
• To identify on risk assessment the relevant date of knowledge, record on Proclaim and record the reasons why the limitation period has been set to that date.
• Provide training and support to Medical Law Services and Fletchers lawyers as necessary.
• To support systems teams with the development of the Structure information decision support system (SIDSS).

The above list is not exhaustive of any other tasks, which may be required