Paralegal (Commercial) London, England
Job description
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (theTrust) is recruiting for a Paralegal (Commercial) to join the Commercial Legal Services Team.
The Paralegal (Commercial) is a key role within the Commercial Legal Services Team and for the broader Trust. Working closely with the Head of Commercial Legal Services who is responsible for ensuring commercial legal work is appropriately managed, the post holder will support the Head of Commercial Legal Services and the Commercial Legal Team in legal negotiation and advice and the establishment and further development of the commercial and legal risk infrastructure.
The Trust is one of the largest Hospital Trusts in the country. Our hospitals have a long and proud history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teaching and research excellence.
The Commercial Legal Services Team within the Trust acts as a centre of excellence for the Trust and key stakeholders in respect of commercial legal work. As a cross cutting internal legal team supporting delivery of the Trust’s commercial, innovation and operational strategy by maximising value and managing risk across the Trust wide commercial legal and contracts portfolio, Commercial Legal Services is run on a business partnering and account management logic and approach.
Specific requirements within the role are as follows:
- Supporting legal negotiation and advice. Supporting the Commercial Legal Services Team in advising, drafting, negotiating and concluding commercial legal and regulatory matters from funding or delivery propositions through to dispute management. The work of the Commercial Legal Services Team involves: master service agreements, master research agreements, innovation contracts, IP transfers, evaluation agreements, corporate/JV/spin off documents, alliancing agreements, partnerships, NHS to NHS, ICS arrangements, tender, teaming and bidding documents, procurement contracts, hosted agreements, tech/IT/IP software contracts, privacy and data matters, international undertakings, commercial dispute and settlement
- Developing commercial legal and risk infrastructure. Key role in supporting relevant internal legal and risk infrastructure projects including: commercial legal risk appetite, commercial contracting policy, procurement contract standardisation, knowledge transfer, training and enablement (skills and capability), protocols and templates, commercial legal and regulatory upskilling/training and similar
