Legal Secretary Cardiff, Wales
Job description
Legal & Risk Services, a division of the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, is seeking a Legal Secretary to provide secretarial and administrative support to the Clinical Negligence team.
Your role will initially be based at Companies House, until we relocate to our new base in early 2024 to CP2, Welsh Government Offices, King Edward VII Avenue Cardiff CF10 3NQ
As a Legal Secretary within a busy legal office you will be responsible for dealing with invoices, preparing correspondence and documents, answering switchboard calls, keeping the case management system up to date, maintaining the electronic filing system, opening and closing files and providing general support to the fee-earners.
We are seeking someone who has a strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, advanced IT skills with the ability to use their own initiative, work within tight deadlines 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.
At NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership we have high standards and expect everyone to embrace our values of Listening & Learning, Working Together, Taking Responsibility & Innovating, whilst ensuring trust, honesty and compassion are implicit in everything that we do.
We are adaptable, agile and flexible and pride ourselves on being a learning organisation - one where it is safe to make mistakes, where blame is replaced by opportunity, learning and improvement. Innovation is built into everything that we do.
We recognise our people regularly and have an Appreciation Station, to encourage staff to applaud exemplary behaviour in one another, alongside an Annual Staff Recognition Award ceremony aligned to our values.
We respect and value our people and strive for a culture of compassion and inclusivity. We are a bilingual organisation, and we have a team of Change Champions who advocate ‘This is Our NWSSP’ our principal change programme. Similarly, PROUD is our new staff network welcoming LGBT+ colleagues and allies to come together in a safe space for discussions, event planning and the opportunity to build supportive networks.
We have a comprehensive benefits package where there is something for everyone, supporting health, engagement and wellbeing and includes an Employee Assistance Programme. We have over 30 Mental Health First Aiders and work in partnership with local and national organisations to ensure the well-being and resilience of our people.
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
