Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving growing team which provides advice and support to clients across Wales in respect of Inquests. As a senior lawyer, you will be a key member of the team, supervising others and delivering training while providing high quality legal services to our NHS clients. The role involves having your own caseload of complex Inquest matters and conducting advocacy.

Main Duties

Legal and Risk Services are looking for an experienced Inquest solicitor capable of working with minimum supervision. Candidates are sought that fit with the values of the NHS in Wales to be open and transparent about inquest investigations and to help ensure lessons are learned. The post will be suitable for solicitors, barristers or legal executives with experience in Mental Health and Clinical Negligence, and advocacy in multi-day Article 2 inquests before juries. As a senior member of the team, the candidate will also be expected to train, mentor and professionally supervise more junior members. The ideal candidate must have good communication skills, a confident approach to work and can demonstrate our core values: Listening and Learning; Working Together; Taking Responsibility; Innovating. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About Us

At NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership we expect everyone to embrace our values of Listening and Learning, Working Together, Taking Responsibility and Innovating. Our organisation encourages an agile working approach and we pride ourselves on being a learning organisation motivated by continuous improvement. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values equality, diversity and inclusion, focussing on the wellbeing and belonging of our people. Excellent customer service is something we strive for, for both our internal and external customers.

Offering a comprehensive benefits package, there is something for everyone. To find out more about working for us, the benefits we offer and guidance on the application process please visit https://nwssp.nhs.wales/working-for-us/

NWSSP works in an agile way where possible; all posts will have a contractual base but as part of agile ways of working that may mean working from home and other locations. We also look at how we balance flexibility with community, and how to manage opportunities to learn from each other.

Details

Date posted: 04 November 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £65,424 to £76,021 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number: 043-AC186-1125

Job location: Companies House / Alder House, Crown Way / Cardiff / Saint Asaph, CF14 3UB

Job Responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

• Law degree & Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (or equivalent)
• A qualified lawyer who is either of the following: A qualified solicitor admitted to the roll of solicitors of England and Wales; A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) and where the specialist area of law described in the role profile includes civil litigation, the postholder is required to have been awarded the CILEx Civil Proceedings Advocacy certification; A qualified barrister admitted to the bar in England and Wales.
• Relevant Legal Knowledge

Desirable

• NHS/public sector background

Experience

• Substantial relevant post qualification experience in relevant field/fields of law as specified in the role profile i.e. litigation gained through practice.
• Extensive experience in drafting documents.
• Experience of managing people.

Desirable Experience

• Extensive experience of reviewing large numbers of documents.
• Extensive experience in drafting documents.
• Experience of managing people.

Aptitude and Abilities

• IT Skills/Computer literate to include the ability to learn new technologies and IT introduced.
• Ability to communicate in all formats on complex business and legal processes.
• Ability to negotiate in often difficult or emotional circumstances.
• Ability to prioritise and organise own work whilst being an effective leader of the team.
• Ability to recognise own capabilities.
• Ability and enthusiasm to train, mentor and professionally supervise more junior members of the team.
• Ability and enthusiasm to grow the work of the department and to build on and broaden the team's reputation within and outside the NHS.

Desirable Aptitude

• Experience of writing reports suitable for senior and executive level audiences.
• Higher Advocacy Skills.
• Experience of using social media to promote individual professional achievements and to enhance Legal and Risk's reputation.
• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.

Other Essential

• Willing to undertake further professional development.
• Able to travel to undertake the duties of the post at various locations.
• Demonstrate how your personal qualities match against our NWSSP core values: Listening and learning - Working together - Taking responsibility & Innovating.
• Deliver excellent customer service to our internal and external customers, helping us to maintain the customer service excellence standard.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit https://www.ukvisasandimmigration.gov.uk/.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.