Paralegal

About the Team

We're looking for driven, ambitious staff to join our award-winning, nationally recognised legal service. At Warwickshire Legal Services your development comes first. Together with high quality training and a supportive environment, you'll also be able to take advantage of greater flexibility and a work life balance that's hard to find at corporate firms. We are proud of our working culture and every single role here at Warwickshire County Council contributes to bettering the lives of the people in our County. If you share our ambitions for growth and excellence, we welcome you to join.

The Young People Legal Team is a busy and dynamic team within Warwickshire Legal Services consisting of approximately 40 employees. The team provides outstanding legal support to our Children's Services' Teams across Warwickshire on a range of child protection matters, as well as undertaking work for other Local Authorities.

About the role

We are looking to recruit a Paralegal to work within our Court Team and who will provide support to our Solicitors and Legal Assistants on a variety of child protection cases. Your responsibilities will include preparing bundles, assisting Legal Assistants with requesting evidence and other routine legal matters, and ensuring that our case management system is kept up to date in line with our Lexcel Accreditation. You may occasionally be required to attend court hearings to provide assistance to solicitors or counsel on more complex hearings and to take notes.

Key requirements

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure as part of a busy legal team and to react to unforeseen and urgent demands.
• Strong IT literacy and good organisational skills.

This is a fixed term position for a period of 6 months.

We are based at Shire Hall in Warwick but predominantly work from home. We provide a flexible, modern working environment, with the supporting technology that you would expect from a leading provider of legal services. You will be required to travel to our office in Warwick occasionally as and when the need arises, and at a minimum of one day per month.

Benefits

Your future matters to us. We provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

Additional Information

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have permission from your line manager.

To discuss the role please contact David House, Team Manager Young People via .

Closing date: midnight on 18 May
Interview date: week commencing 25 May

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more.