Senior Legal Assistant - Legal Services
| Posting date: | 04 July 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £19.60 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 August 2024 |
| Location: | EXETER, EX2 4QD |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Devon 5251260 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Senior Legal Assistant - Legal Services
Reference no: Devon 5251260
Pay Rate: £19.60 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 17:00
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: EXETER
Basic DBS disclosure required
Provide practical support to solicitors including preparation and maintenance of trial bundles, renewal of orders, dealing with routine correspondence, drafting applications, liaising with witnesses and other administrative tasks that may be assigned - this is for an experienced Senior Legal Assistant within children social work legal department.
Key Responsibilities:
Assist with the work of the Legal Services, typically in the following areas:
a. Child care
b. Conveyancing (sales, purchases, leases and associated landlord and tenant matters,
licences, easements etc.)
c. Legal notices and agreements under the Highways Acts
d. Traffic management and other statutory orders
e. Compensation claims arising from road improvement schemes
f. General legal advice to other Directorates on aspects relating to land and other matters
g. Trading Standards prosecutions
h. Pay and Display prosecutions
i. Public Rights of Way issues
j. Adult Social Care
Manage a caseload as allocated relating to any of the above with minimum supervision.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
ILEX Level 3
LPC equivalent
Experience:
Appropriate office experience
Relevant experience in legal work
Skills & Abilities:
Ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English
Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the County Council and its partner organisations
Ability to develop creative solutions quickly in response to need
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Job Ref: Devon 5251260
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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