Team Leader - Serious Injury
This Team Leader opportunity is built for someone who knows how to run a serious injury function properly. Not just from a technical point of view, but from a leadership one as well. You will be overseeing complex, high-value personal injury work in a part of the market where judgement matters, experience matters and weak management gets found out quickly.
You will be leading a specialist team handling serious injury claims linked closely to the insurance sector. The work is demanding, sensitive and often high profile. It needs someone who can balance technical credibility with calm, effective leadership.This is not about supervising from a distance. It is about setting standards, improving performance and giving capable people the right direction without smothering them.
As a Team Leader, you will remain close enough to the work to add value while also taking responsibility for team performance, file quality and case strategy. You will be expected to bring structure, consistency and commercial awareness to a serious injury environment where the detail matters and the wider insurance context cannot be ignored.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading a team handling serious injury and complex personal injury claims
- Overseeing file progression, technical quality and litigation strategy
- Supporting and developing fee earners working on high-value matters
- Acting as a senior point of contact on liability, causation, quantum and risk
- Monitoring performance, workflow and service standards across the team
- Working closely with stakeholders across the wider insurance landscape
- Driving a steady, credible culture focused on quality rather than noise
What they're looking for:
- Strong background in serious injury or complex personal injury work
- Previous leadership experience or clear readiness to step into a Team Leader role
- Technical credibility across high-value claims and litigation
- Ability to manage people in a measured, commercially sensible way
- Good grasp of how legal strategy aligns with the wider insurance market
- Confidence making decisions, setting direction and maintaining standards
- A calm, authoritative style rather than a loud or overly managerial one
What's on offer:
- Salary of £50,000 to £65,000 depending on experience
- A genuine leadership role within a specialist serious injury team
- Quality work with real complexity and commercial relevance
- A stable environment closely connected to the insurance sector
- The chance to shape team performance and standards as a Team Leader
- Long-term opportunity for someone who wants substance, not politics
This Team Leader role will appeal to someone who takes serious injury work seriously and wants to lead in an environment where standards still matter. Good leadership in this space is not about slogans or pressure tactics. It is about judgement, consistency and knowing when to step in and when to trust the people around you.