Senior Lawyer – Inquest Team

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving and growing team which provides advice and support to clients across Wales in respect of Inquests. As a senior lawyer, you will be a key member of the team, supervising others and delivering training whilst providing high quality legal services to our NHS clients. The role involves having your own caseload of complex Inquest matters and conducting advocacy.

Main duties of the job

Legal and Risk Services are looking for an experienced Inquest solicitor capable of working with minimum supervision. Candidates are sought that fit with the values of the NHS in Wales to be open and transparent about inquest investigations and to help ensure lessons are learned.The post will be suitable for solicitors, barristers or legal executives with experience in Mental Health and Clinical Negligence, and advocacy in multi-day Article 2 inquests before juries.As a senior member of the team, the candidate will also be expected to train, mentor and professionally supervise more junior members.The ideal candidate for the above position must have good communication skills, a confident approach to work and can demonstrate our core values:Listening and LearningWorking Together Taking ResponsibilityInnovatingThe ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

Essential

  • Law degree & Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (or equivalent)
  • A qualified lawyer who is either of the following: A qualified solicitor admitted to the roll of solicitors of England and Wales – A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) and where the specialist area of law described in the role profile includes civil litigation, the postholder is required to have been awarded the CILEx Civil Proceedings Advocacy certification. – A qualified barrister admitted to the bar in England and Wales.
  • Relevant Legal Knowledge

Desirable

  • NHS/public sector background

Experience

Essential

  • Substantial relevant post qualification experience in relevant field/fields of law as specified in the role profile i.e. litigation gained through practice.
  • Extensive experience in drafting documents.
  • Experience of managing people.

Desirable

  • Extensive experience of reviewing large numbers of documents
  • Defendant litigation/ experience in relevant field of law
  • Experience of making presentations to legal staff

Aptitude and Abilities

Essential

  • IT Skills/Computer literate to include the ability to learn new technologies and IT introduced.
  • Ability to communicate in all formats on complex business and legal processes.
  • Ability to negotiate in often difficult or emotional circumstances
  • Ability to prioritise and organise own work whilst being an effective leader of the team
  • Ability to recognise own capabilities
  • Ability and enthusiasm to train, mentor and professionally supervise more junior members of the team
  • Ability and enthusiasm to grow the work of the department and to build on and broaden the team’s reputation within and outside the NHS

Desirable

  • Experience of writing reports suitable for senior and executive level audiences
  • Higher Advocacy Skills
  • Experience of using social media to promote individual professional achievements and to enhance Legal and Risk’s reputation
  • Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh

Other

Essential

  • Willing to undertake further professional development
  • Able to travel to undertake the duties of the post at various locations
  • Demonstrate how your personal qualities match against our NWSSP core values: Listening and learning – Working together – Taking responsibility & Innovating
  • Deliver excellent customer service to our internal and external customers, helping us to maintain the customer service excellence standard

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 16 August 2026

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