Regulatory Paralegal

Our Regulatory Healthcare Advisory team is a vibrant specialist department. We provide advice on all aspects of regulatory healthcare law, for organisations such as hospital trusts and care homes, as well as regulated individuals. The work is broad in nature including inquests, Court of Protection, as well as advisory matters and prosecutions by the CQC. 

We are accepting candidates from across the North.

The ethos of the team is to work hard for our clients so that we secure the right outcome for them. In so doing we improve our technical skills and enhance our ability to meet the clients’ needs as they evolve.

The healthcare sector is fast moving and the challenge of working for our clients provides very interesting work. The successful candidate will be highly motivated to develop their own and our teams’ practices.  We provide a supportive environment in which to work.

The role is to assist case handlers with the preparation of cases and attend meetings and hearings as required.

The primary responsibility is to work with fee earners on their cases – tasks include:

• Drafting letters of approach/instruction to experts, 
• Seeking records, preparing chronologies, tracing and interviewing witnesses, collating disclosure.
• Completing client MI procedures/databases
• Achieve set financial and chargeable hours targets
• Ensure relevant deadlines, quality measures and KPIs are adhered to
• Comply with relevant policies and procedures
• Work in accordance with Weightmans’ values