Slater and Gordon Lawyers (UK)
Solicitor
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Slater and Gordon is one of the UK’s leading consumer law firms, renowned for acting for individuals and families in some of the most complex and sensitive clinical negligence cases. Due to continued growth, we are now looking to recruit a Newly Qualified or Junior Clinical Negligence Solicitor to join our Cardiff team.
You will manage your own caseload of clinical negligence matters with appropriate supervision, working alongside experienced colleagues in a supportive and collaborative environment. The role offers excellent exposure to high-quality work and the opportunity to develop your technical skills from the outset of your career.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing a varied caseload of clinical negligence claims
- Drafting pleadings, instructions to experts and correspondence
- Liaising with clients, experts, counsel and third parties
- Supporting senior solicitors on more complex, high-value cases
- Delivering an empathetic, client-focused service
About You
- Newly Qualified solicitor or up to 3 years’ PQE
- Previous experience in clinical negligence or personal injury (including trainee seat experience)
- Strong communication and organisational skills
- A genuine passion for claimant clinical negligence work
- A proactive and enthusiastic approach to learning and development
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Our core and voluntary Benefits:
- Hybrid working – 2 days per week working in the office (must live a reasonable distance to commute to the office)
- 35 hours per week – Monday to Friday
- 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
- Buy and sell annual leave up to 5 days
- Employee Referral scheme
- Group Incentive Plan (Annual Bonus Scheme)
- Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App providing you with services including annual health checks, access to Digital GP’s, mental health consultations, 2nd medical opinions and much more
- Employee Assistance Programme where you can access free webinars for stress awareness and counselling sessions
- Group Income Protection which will support you with an income if you are unable to work long term, as a result of an illness or injury
- Health and Wellbeing Programmes and apps including gym discounts, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, meditation sessions and much more
- Life Assurance cover
- Workplace pension
- Benefits Hub providing discounts to over 700 services including cinema tickets, food and drink, travel, and high street stores
- Dental Insurance
- Christmas and Summer socials
- Free legal help and discounted lawyer led legal services
Some of the benefits listed above are subject to passing probation or are length of service related. Benefits may be adjusted/removed from time to time
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Your Professional Development
We will also support and encourage you with developing your career with an award- winning law firm. We run courses across our offices and are continuously monitoring and updating the learning and development offering based on what you tell us. We can support you with your continuous professional development by providing funding for professional qualifications, attending external training courses and providing you with a range of internal learning resources.
Our Values
Like all great businesses, we strive to recruit the best people and uphold the highest legal standards. Our people bring something a little different. We hire people who can challenge, remove roadblocks and deliver outstanding customer service.
That's why at Slater + Gordon we go further with our values. How we work is guided by the S+G Way. This means:
- We do what we say we will
- We don’t wait we create
- We own it, we sort it
- We respect and encourage each other
- We make time to live
The S+G Way defines the specific behaviours and actions that our colleagues and our customers care about the most. We know this, because our colleagues helped to create the way, through a series of interactive workshops and interviews.
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