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DACB's Health, Care and Public Law Team provides legal advice and training to a wide range of organisations operating in the health and social care sector, including NHS Trusts, independent sector providers, charities, commissioners and investors.
The team is highly rated in Legal 500 and Chambers and recognised as a “very broad range of specialists and all, without exception, first class experts and great to work with".
We currently have an opportunity for a Paralegal to join our team, with particular focus on working with our healthcare regulatory lawyers in delivery of advice to clients and management of our client relationships.
The team plays an important role in DACB's broader Health practice, which is widely recognised as the leading strategic, commercial and regulatory legal adviser to the health and social care sector in the UK. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team and learn from the top subject area specialists, whilst also gaining wider experience of working in the legal sector.
Key Responsibilities of the Role:
Supporting the local team and the national Health, Care and Public Law Team. Your day to day responsibilities will include:
* Supporting administrative tasks such as financial administration and billing, client matter reporting, file opening processes and team administration;
* Creating and maintaining client data spreadsheets to ensure easy correlation and sharing of matter MI;
* Assisting in the organisation of internal and external events, seminars, conferences and training sessions;
* Document collation and management, particularly in relation to inquests and Court of Protection proceedings, including use of electronic document management systems to support with data sharing and data rooms, bundling, indexing and redaction;
* Attending meetings with team members to assist and take notes.
Key Technical / Knowledge:
* A strong academic background, including at least a 2:1 degree
* Attention to detail and a concern for quality
* An outgoing, confident communicator, with good oral and written communication skills
* An enthusiastic, flexible, self-motivated and committed team player, happy to work on larger matters as part of a team with shared responsibilities
* Strong organisational skills, together with the ability to manage deadlines and work under pressure
* Ability to concentrate on routine tasks
* Reliable, responsible and capable of following instructions
* IT literate, ideally with Excel proficiency
* Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge and support other members of the team
* A genuine interest in and willingness to learn about the healthcare sector
About DACB
We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.
Working with Us
Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.
We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don't just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the 'whole you' to work. So if you're good at what you do, come as you are!
We are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role as set out in this advert. If this applies to you contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the team will be in touch.
Note for Recruitment Agencies
The DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
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