Job Description

Basis

Part time

Job category/type

Business Support

Date posted

18/09/2025

Job reference

HJ0388

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 part time 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 250 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's 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's important keeps us driving forwards. It's in our roots! We won't 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

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 Jack Osborne.

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