Legal Administrator

We have the ideal opportunity for an highly organised administrator to join our Legal services team.

As the legal services administrator you will support with providing sufficient administrative support to the Legal services team, this will include assisting with collating information in relation new claims and inquest; inputting information into the Datix system and assisting with the coordination of meetings with internal and external stakeholders.

The role can be based at either of our Ipswich or Colchester sites and will involve a combination of home working.

• Assist with filing onto Datix from team member
• Opening new Claims and Inquests on the Datix system
• Downloading correspondence from DT
• Adding NHSR and external solicitors contacts details and reference
• Updating Datix with financial information from NHSR and external solicitor
• Disclosing complaints and incidents to external solicitors and NHS
• Assisting in locating missing records

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.