Helen Dempsey

Coordinating and managing legal claims on behalf of the Trust, including: investigating claims and preparing an overview; liaising with clinical management teams to ensure awareness of claims; interviewing witnesses and preparing statements; reviewing and approving documentation and correspondence from panel solicitors; attending hearings and RTMs Managing inquests on behalf of the Trust, including: investigating inquests and collating relevant information; interviewing witnesses and preparing statements; advocacy in court Creating and updating the Legal Services page on the Trust intranet, including information on Legal Services work and writing relevant articles on recent clinical case law

Head of Legal at Homerton Healthcare NHS Trust (November 2024-present)

Legal Services Manager at East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2020-10 – 2924-11)

• Coordinating and managing legal claims on behalf of the Trust, including: investigating claims and preparing an overview; liaising with clinical management teams to ensure awareness of claims; interviewing witnesses and preparing statements; reviewing and approving documentation and correspondence from panel solicitors; attending hearings and RTMs
• Managing inquests on behalf of the Trust, including: investigating inquests and collating relevant information; interviewing witnesses and preparing statements; advocacy in court
• Creating and updating the Legal Services page on the Trust intranet, including information on Legal Services work and writing relevant articles on recent clinical case law
• Coordinating and implementing Trust-wide training on inquests and claims for clinical staff
• Reviewing and amending contracts
• Responding to enquiries on various legal areas relevant to the Trust
• Updating records and the case management system
• Keeping track of relevant deadlines

Healthcare Paralegal/Legal Claims Manager at Clyde & Co. (2019-10 – 2020-10)

Including secondments as Legal Claims Manager at Kingston Hospital NHSFT and East Kent Hospitals NHSFT

• Drafting legal documents including witness statements and Part 36 offers
• Drafting Letters of Instruction to experts and Counsel
• Conducting legal research
• Attending Hearings
• Coordinating Conferences
• Drafting update reports for Clients
• Whilst on secondment at the Trust tasks included: coordinating and managing cases on behalf of the Trust; advising the Head of Legal on cases; interviewing witnesses and preparing statements; reviewing and approving documentation and correspondence from panel solicitors; reviewing and amending contracts; liaising with clinicians regarding cases; carrying out investigations into claims on behalf of the Trust; responding to enquiries on various legal areas relevant to the Trust; updating records and the case management system; keeping track of relevant deadlines

Paralegal – Civil Actions at Birnberg Peirce (2018-09 – 2019-10)

Focus on Actions Against the Police, inquests and police complaints

• Performing substantive legal work including drafting legal documents and conducting research
• Taking and drafting witness statements
• Drafting legal aid applications and use of CCMS
• Liaising with the LAA
• Filing & issuing documents at court
• Compiling matter bundles
• Billing and preparing schedules of cost
• Proofreading of documents
• Diarising important dates and keeping track of limitations
• Client communication and dealing with new enquiries
• General administrative duties including arranging meetings

Capacity Development Programme Associate at Natural Resource Governance Institute (2010-09 – 2016-09)

• Coordinated NRGI's highly successful global and regional courses that focussed on community development and environmental law
• Acted as point of contact for partner NGOs
• Reformed organisation-wide gender strategy by producing capacity development gender report on issues faced by women in relation to the extractive industries and developing and managing the Women Leaders in Extractives Fellowship programme
• Managed NRGI training alumni outreach, creating an online platform with over 1,000 members
• Led on Capacity Development team communications and marketing including course promotion and social media outreach, webpage content development, article and blog writing and editing
• Represented the organisation at conferences and meetings, including acting as a panellist

LPC with LLM – University of Law, London Bloomsbury (2019-09 – 2021-06)

Graduate Diploma in Law – University of Law, London Bloomsbury (2016-09 – 2017-09)

MSc in International Development: Poverty, Conflict and Reconstruction – University of Manchester (2008-09 – 2009-09)

MA in Social Science with honours in Sociology – University of Glasgow (2002-09 – 2006-09)

A-Levels – Queen Mary School, Lytham, Lancashire (2002-07)

GCSEs – Queen Mary School, Lytham, Lancashire (2000-07)