Job Description

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Business Support

Date posted

25/06/2025

Job reference

HJ0369



This vacancy is
open to direct applications only, no approaches via recruitment
agencies will be accepted at this time.

Background

We are currently looking for a Legal
Assistant to work within our award-winning Nursing Care
Department.

Our Nursing Care department is one of the
leading national experts in the recovery of wrongly paid care
home fees; our specialist nursing care team have successfully
recovered over 170 million for our clients since the department
was set up in 2006.

The Role

The purpose of the role is to provide
support to the fee earners by undertaking specific tasks in
relation to NHS Continuing Healthcare claims. Duties will
include:-


Completing administrative tasks to progress claims as required. Co-ordinate new work to ensure all enquiries are dealt with. Liaising by telephone and by written communication with health authorities/care homes/GPs/hospitals and clients in order to obtain copy records and/or collection of such records. Reviewing medical records to prepare detailed chronology documents based on a patient medical and care records. Updating and maintaining spreadsheets and other documents.

Skills & Qualifications

The successful candidate will have an
excellent telephone manner, be accurate, a team worker with good
IT skills to include Word, Excel and databases. They will have
the desire and ability to learn and develop within this role.



This position would ideally suit recent
graduates. Applications are also welcomed from candidates who
have experience of working within a similar role.

Life at Hugh James

We never shy
away from a challenge



We are a leading, full-service UK law firm.
Since our beginning, we have been led by the things that matter.
We care about fighting for the right outcomes. Solving the
seemingly unsolvable. Protecting businesses, individuals and
livelihoods. Supporting our people, our communities. Safeguarding
our planet. Looking for a way forward? At Hugh James, challenges
- of all sizes - are readily accepted.


The Hugh James
difference



Our law firm has always been guided by the
idea that self-belief is just as important as skillset. Our
pursuit of righting wrongs and protecting what important keeps
us driving forwards. It in our roots! We won stop until we
find the answers; the outcomes that are needed.

We are focused on the work we do, the
business we run, and our culture. Our entrepreneurial spirit has
taken us from humble beginnings to a strong presence across the
UK with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and
Plymouth - servicing clients from businesses, individuals and
banks to public sector organisations, property companies,
education establishments and utilities providers. Our collegiate
culture, our forward-looking ethos, our values serve to make us
bigger, better, bolder than ever before.


A positive force
in the community



Our work with charities on a local and
national level plays a huge part in our day-to-day lives. We work
with a large range of charities, some of which we support through
fundraising, donations, volunteering and others we partner with
where our areas of work cross paths. Staff, clients everyone
comes together through a shared passion to do good in the
community and support those in need.


Some of our benefits on offer
include:



Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank
holidays

Two Corporate Social Responsibility
days

Birthday day off

Death in service equivalent to twice annual
salary

Auto enrolment pension scheme

Hybrid working

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts for local businesses

Professional fees paid (subject to
requirement for your role)

Employee recruitment incentive scheme



Hugh James is an equal opportunities and
disability confident committed employer.



Thank you for taking the time to consider
this opportunity. If you have questions, please contact Evie
Koper.


We reserve the
right to close our vacancies earlier than the given deadline if
we receive sufficient applications for the role.