Solicitor - Medical Negligence

Overview

Our solicitors have extensive experience handling a wide range of medical negligence cases, including but not limited to:

• Accident & Emergency claims
• Cancer claims
• Cerebral Palsy claims
• GP negligence claims
• Claims involving a death
• Gynaecology cases
• Delay in the diagnosis of cancer
• Surgical injuries
• Spinal injury cases
• Orthopaedic cases
• Injuries to children at birth

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide quality legal advice to the firm’s clients through appropriate supervision and training, while managing your own caseload from the start.
• Aim to secure interim payments where possible to enable rehabilitation, care packages, and suitable accommodation before the claim is finalised.
• Take instructions from clients and give legal advice.
• Opportunity to manage your own caseload, while assisting Partners and senior team members on high-value cases.
• Review cases and other relevant matters with a supervisor to ensure quality legal advice is provided.

Our team handles a variety of complex cases and is committed to enhancing the quality of life for our clients.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s onboarding process, all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This helps ensure that new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity, protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders. We carry out pre-employment screening to establish eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with trusted third parties.

The employment screening process fully complies with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

• 4-6 years PQE with a Medical Negligence background
• Commercial awareness
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently
• Ability to work in a pressurised environment

• We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. We understand that everyone’s situation is different, and we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs.
• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays (you can buy up to 35 hours of extra holiday).
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two paid days per year for a cause of your choice.
• Westfield Health membership and Aviva Digital GP services.
• Well-being initiatives including Flexible by Choice for hybrid working options (subject to role, team and client requirements). We were ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024.

We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where colleagues can flourish, and we have established inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. Our commitment to social responsibility, community investment and tackling climate change is central to who we are, with focus on four strands:
Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.