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Paralegal/Legal Assistant - ASC/ Education

Job details
Posting date:	05 July 2024
Salary:	£19.50 per hour
Additional salary information:	per hour PAYE
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	03 August 2024
Location:	WARRINGTON, WA1 2NT
Company:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	Warrington 0009 0EF0 / 1

Summary

What's involved with this role:

Temporary Paralegal/Legal Assistant - ASC/ Education

Reference no: Warrington 0009 0EF0 / 1

Pay Rate: £19.50 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 2-3 months

City: WARRINGTON

An enthusiastic and able lawyer to join the in-house legal team at the Borough Council. Based within the Legal Safeguarding Team you will primarily work in the area of Adult Social care and/or Education.

You will be a key member of the team. The post involves provision of significant levels of support to the Legal Services Manager, solicitors and social work clients.

You will need excellent communication skills, team skills and the ability to interpret legislation in a common sense and practical manner, having due regard to the Council’s legal responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

Carry out the duties with full regard to the Council’s Corporate Plan, the Corporate Equality and Diversity Policy, Health and Safety Policy and Social Inclusion Strategy.
Provide legal advice and guidance to Client Departments of the Council as and when required.
Represent the Legal Services Manager at both internal and external meetings as and when required.
Provide advice and guidance, where appropriate, under the supervision of the Legal Services Manager, Senior Solicitor and/or solicitors from the Specialist Team, on adult’s safeguarding, education and associated matters, including, education prosecutions, criminal injuries compensation and disclosure of information to third parties.
Attend court / tribunal with fee earners and/or counsel as required.
Be involved in the management of Council projects as part of the appropriate specialist team.
Be occasionally involved in the management of high profile and complex safeguarding matters under the supervision of the Legal Services Manager, Senior Solicitor and/or Solicitors from the Specialist Team,
Involved in the management of litigation and other proceedings involving the Council including preparation of court and tribunal documents, managing external lawyers including counsel, liaising with courts and tribunals, liaising with external parties in litigation including opposing legal advisers, experts and witnesses and working with internal clients involved in proceedings.
Manage external lawyers involved in proceedings or providing other advice, guidance and assistance and to liaise with other council officers and departments in the delivery of advice, proceedings, statutory and contract documentation, and the development of Council policies.
Undertake other legal work as appropriate including legal research drafting of legal documents.

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:

Qualifications:

Must be undertaking or have undertaken relevant professional training for a recognised professional legal qualification or commensurate experience

Knowledge:

Knowledge of relevant legislation for the service area
In depth knowledge of the relevant legislation to the service area
Good knowledge of relevant legislation to the service area and the decision making processes and procedures
Understanding of current issues and best practice on service delivery relevant to the service areas

Experience:

Experience of working on own initiative and of dealing with sensitive/urgent matters
Significant experience of independent advocacy in courts and tribunals, including on more complex cases.
Proven track record of managing own clients and their cases

Skills & Abilities:

Good communication skills, both orally and in writing
Good analytical skills
Strong organisational and IT skills
Ability to work under pressure and respond efficiently to the changing needs of the clients.
Ability to contribute to the ongoing development of the Legal Service
Ability to be able to travel to attend courts wherever the client’s case is being considered.
Ability to be available to attend premises out of hours to attend evening meetings and in the event of emergencies or urgent management issues in relation to both authorities

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Job Ref: Warrington 0009 0EF0 / 1

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.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.