Band 5 Legal officer - Barnet
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Legal Officer to join its in-house legal services team at Barnet Hospital. This role is crucial for supporting the senior legal team with coroners' inquest cases, personal injury claims, and providing legal advice. The successful candidate will work closely with various departments and external stakeholders, requiring strong written communication and organizational skills. The team is busy, so the role demands a hard-working, professional individual capable of independent work and teamwork.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
- Education and professional qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent business administration and/or project management experience.
- A levels/equivalent
- Personal qualities and attributes
- Excellent interpersonal skills and written communication skills
- Excellent telephone manner with the ability to deal tactfully, sympathetically and efficiently with all enquiries
- Ability to represent the Department in a professional manner at all times
- Computer literate with experience of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel
- Robust organizational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and meet tight timescales
- Ability to use own initiative and work with minimal supervision as part of a team
- Highly motivated and resourceful
- A flexible approach with the ability to work under pressure and deal with conflicting demands
- Ability to deal with frequent unplanned or unexpected interruptions and consequent re-prioritisation of tasks
- Ability to represent the Legal Department in a professional manner at all times including at Court
- Experience working in an environment with conflicting pressures and changing workload
- Experience of working within a team and of developing good working relationships with internal and external staff at all levels
Desirable criteria
- Substantial experience working as an administrator in a legal office
- Experience working within the NHS
- Royal Free World Class Values
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
- Education and professional qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent business administration and/or project management experience.
- A levels/equivalent
- Personal qualities and attributes
- Excellent interpersonal skills and written communication skills
- Excellent telephone manner with the ability to deal tactfully, sympathetically and efficiently with all enquiries
- Ability to represent the Department in a professional manner at all times
- Computer literate with experience of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel
- Robust organizational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and meet tight timescales
- Ability to use own initiative and work with minimal supervision as part of a team
- Highly motivated and resourceful
- A flexible approach with the ability to work under pressure and deal with conflicting demands
- Ability to deal with frequent unplanned or unexpected interruptions and consequent re-prioritisation of tasks
- Ability to represent the Legal Department in a professional manner at all times including at Court
- Experience working in an environment with conflicting pressures and changing workload
- Experience of working within a team and of developing good working relationships with internal and external staff at all levels
- Substantial experience working as an administrator in a legal office
- Experience working within the NHS
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £36,943 – £44,900 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Band 5 Legal officer - Barnet
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
The Trust's in-house group legal services are recruiting a band 5 legal officer to join the team based at Barnet Hospital.
The legal officers are vitally important members of the department, and are key points of contact for the coroners' courts, the Trust's indemnity organisation (NHS Resolution) and external lawyers. They work closely with staff across the entire organisation, particularly senior managers , senior nurses and consultants.
The legal services team is very busy, juggling competing deadlines and pressures. We seek colleagues who can are willing to work as part of a team and who always aim to comply with the Trust's values.We are looking for candidates who are hard-working, professional, and can work to a high standard independently. The majority of communications with colleagues and external stakeholders are in writing, so applicants must have excellent written English. Written English will be tested.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for :Assisting the Head of Group Legal Services, Deputy Head of Group LegalServices and Group Legal Claims Manager ("senior legal team") in their conductof coroners' inquest cases, including undertaking all preliminary investigations;
Assisting the Deputy Head of Group Legal S
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