Job Description

We're looking for a Paralegal to join our Health and Social Care Advisory team (HCAT) in Newcastle. You'll be supporting fee earners working on a wide range of Court of Protection litigation and inquest matters, ensuring all required documentation is in place.
What will I be doing

• Dealing with complex medical and legal issues that require research and discussion with other members of the HCAT.
• Assisting fee earners with the preparation of Court procedural documents, reviewing evidence and witness statements, letters of instruction to counsel and experts, chronologies of records, applications to court for extensions of time and other procedural documents etc;
• Preparing copies of original medical records, looking through medical records to find relevant letters, documents and evidence as required pursuant to the proceedings.
• Preparing bundles for the Court, Counsel and experts.
• Attending court and conferences to assist counsel/fee earners and taking notes. This will require some ad hoc travel.
• Chasing up witnesses for statements and documents and keeping track of all deadlines.
• Attending departmental meetings and other internal meetings as required.
• Arranging conferences including Court Telephone hearings.
• Maintaining and keeping our matter management system fully up to date.

You'll have

• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in MS Office and good all-round IT skills
• The ability to prioritise, work to tight deadlines, and manage your time effectively.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
• The ability to adapt your style, be proactive, and effectively solve problems.
• Previous legal work experience would be advantageous but not essential.

About us
We're proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us you'll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.
We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.
What we can offer you
We're committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we're always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.
We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that's right for you - now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits.
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week working from one of our office locations.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact people@wardhadaway.com quoting vacancy reference HCAT.1025.
If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.
Agencies - please note that we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.

Skills Required