Description
NQ-2 PQE and looking for the next step in your career? Join our Clinical Negligence team as a Lawyer, based in Newcastle!
More about the role...
The role will primarily involve managing your own clinical negligence caseload. While there may be opportunities to assist on existing matters, the focus will be on independently handling your own files from the outset, with appropriate support and supervision.
Our Clinical Negligence Lawyers manage a diverse caseload of matters, including claims arising from delayed diagnoses, surgical errors, birth injuries, and other complex medical issues, with appropriate supervision and support.
This position offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the end-to-end management of clinical negligence cases. It requires a solid foundation in medical and legal principles, strong analytical skills, and the ability to contribute meaningfully to the progression of claims from initial instruction through to resolution.
You’ll work alongside experienced solicitors and senior fee earners, developing specialist expertise and deepening your understanding of clinical negligence law. As a valued team member, you’ll play a key role in achieving positive outcomes for clients and contributing to the team’s overall success.
Who we are looking for....
We are seeking qualified lawyers—ideally with 0–2 years’ PQE—who can demonstrate experience or a strong interest in clinical negligence work. Familiarity with the litigation process and an understanding of how to approach medical evidence and expert reports will be advantageous.
In addition to a proven ability to manage deadlines and progress cases efficiently, experience with electronic case management systems is desirable. As this role involves regular contact with clients who have often experienced traumatic medical events, a compassionate and empathetic approach is essential, along with a genuine commitment to client care.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to take the next step in their legal career, where your contribution to achieving justice for injured patients will be recognised, and you will receive the training and support needed to grow and develop within a specialist clinical negligence team.
What we offer you...
* Contributory pension scheme
* Permanent health insurance
* Healthcare Cash Plan (Medicash)
* Life assurance
* 23 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
* 5 days additional leave over Christmas
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Cycle to work scheme
* Subsidised sports and social club
* Annual travel and parking loans
* Financial assistance for professional development
For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.
Thompsons ran:
• the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
• the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
• the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
• the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
• hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).
Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.
Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.
We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.
Visit www.thompsons.law or call 0800 0 224 224
Thompsons Solicitors is a trading name of Thompsons Solicitors LLP.