Team Leader – Clinical Negligence

Job ID: JRFS6072

Salary: £40000-£70000 per year

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Job Description:

James Ray Recruitment are working with a law firm based in North West England, seeking a Team Leader for their Clinical Negligence department.

In this key role, you’ll shape the team’s success, delivering exceptional results for our clients while upholding Fletchers’ commitment to excellence. As a mentor and leader, you’ll foster a collaborative, high-performance culture, ensuring we continue to achieve the best possible outcomes in every case.

Key Duties:

Accountable for:

Strategy & Execution

  • Implement departmental plans in team to deliver Fletchers’ priorities
  • Ensure that the team provides excellent customer service
  • Ensure the team achieves their agreed performance targets
  • Deliver the appropriate objectives on “The Pitch”
  • Support the budgeting process for the Clinical Negligence department
  • Ensure high quality case planning, file management and ESD management within team, to support financial planning and delivery of team budgets

Leadership & Management

  • Lead the team, managing the team members
  • Coach, develop and support team members
  • Management behaviours
  • Promote a “cradle to grave” environment where all lawyers are constantly developing and meeting their potential

Technical

  • Provide advice and guidance on any and all Clinical Negligence issues
  • Ensure cases are progressed appropriately and customer satisfaction is delivered
  • Work with the Heads of to ensure the team delivers quality legal services with unrivalled customer care in a compliant way

KPIS/Outcome Measures:

  • Delivery of key output metrics, Including Fees, Work Done, EBITDA, EBITDAW and Customer satisfaction.
  • Delivery of key Input metrics, Team chargeability %, Letters of claim sent, cases served and cases settled, RA1 and RA2 acceptance rates, Win rate, Zero data breaches.
  • Delivery of other key metrics: Team engagementRelationships:
  • Providing and receiving ​a service to Customers

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Experience of successfully leading or managing in a Clinical Negligence team
  • Experience of running a wide variety of Clinical Negligence claims
  • Ability to deliver excellent customer service
  • A good understanding of how to deliver and grow team productivity
  • Experience of coaching and supporting team members
  • Ability to role model good practice leadership
  • Technology literate, with the ability to use technology to enhance legal services
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to form positive working relationships with a
  • wide variety of team members
  • Strong analytical skills

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary
  • 35 hours working week.
  • Bonus scheme (subject to targets being met)
  • 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days’ holiday per year, until you long service award the 3 days after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment
  • Pension scheme with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option.
  • Life Assurance Policy
  • Medicash policy to cover some Dental, optical, and other medical expenses.
  • Company sick pay
  • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and IVF schemes
  • Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work-life balance
  • Varied calendar of funded company social events (check out Fletchers Group on LinkedIn)
  • Monthly voucher awards

To Apply For This Role:

Email your CV and cover letter to admin@jamesrayrec.com

To Apply For This Role:

Email your CV and cover letter to admin@jamesrayrec.com