Job summary
Employer heading
Band 8d Associate Director of Legal Services
Band 8d
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Job overview
Transform the Future of Legal Services with Us
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Associate Director of Legal Services to join our team at Barking, Havering, and Redbridge NHS Trust. This newly established, high-profile role is central to transforming our Legal Services Department, ensuring we deliver high-quality, well-integrated services across our diverse London boroughs and beyond.
Join us in making a significant impact on our Trust’s legal services, reflecting our commitment to excellence, innovation, and equity.
Main duties of the job
Your Role:
Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement a forward-thinking legal strategy. Lead the legal team to achieve excellence in clinical and commercial legal services, inquiries, judicial reviews, and national submissions.
Operational Management: Oversee procurement of corporate external legal services and manage legal projects Trust-wide.
Collaboration: Work collaboratively with Clinical Group Directors and other corporate services to deliver cohesive legal practices.
Relationship Management: Act as the liaison between the Trust, NHS Resolution, and external lawyers. Ensure compliance with service level agreements and the highest levels of legal excellence.
Financial Oversight: Co-manage the legal services budget with the Director of Nursing, Quality, and Safety. Drive productivity and reduce reliance on external lawyers.
Key Skills and Experience:
Extensive experience in a senior legal role within an acute NHS Trust.
Strong influencing, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
Proven ability to lead and develop a legal team, ensuring high standards and compliance.
Expertise in managing complex legal matters and providing strategic legal advice.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.
Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.
Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Paul Awosika, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5989. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person specification
Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential criteria
- Professional membership of the law society or the institute of chartered legal executives.
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A qualified solicitor, barrister or chartered legal executive.
- Law Degree or Masters equivalent in Law.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of providing legal services at a senior level to the NHS or other public bodies.
- Experience working within a senior leadership legal role within the NHS.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kerri Mackay
- Job title
- Director of Nursing, Quality and Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01708435000
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