Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicestershire. LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £27,717 - £33,294 per annum
Working Hours: 37 Hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 15th June 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
About the Role
1. Are you an experienced Family/Childcare Law paralegal?
2. Are you a Law Graduate and/or have recently completed your LPC or BPTC or equivalent?
3. Are you looking to gain experience whilst working towards the SQE?
4. Are you a recent CILEX Graduate Member looking to build experience ahead of an application for Fellowship of CILEX?
5. Are you interested in pursuing a career in Family/Childcare Law?
If so, Leicestershire County Council would very much welcome an application from you. The successful applicant will be joining a team of 7 Paralegals each providing one to one legal support to friendly, busy and experienced childcare lawyers.
At Leicestershire County Council we have a highly-regarded Childcare section with positive working relationships with the local judiciary and wider legal community. We very much value the role Paralegals play in supporting our work and in continuing to enhance our reputation, so you will be closely supported, mentored and supervised but also be given the opportunities to undertake a wide range of quality case management/Public Law Outline related work. Our approach is to equip our Paralegals with the skills and experience necessary to go on to become fully qualified lawyers.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
6. Have a recent Law degree including a family law Option and/or recently completed the LPC/BPTC including a family law option or recently completed the equivalent Legal Executive qualification
7. Considerable and recent experience of working within a legal environment such as a firm of solicitors, in – house legal department, law centre or citizens advice bureau to include experience of drafting legal documentation
8. Knowledge of Children Act 1989
9. Good drafting skills and ability to draft both standard and non-standard legal documents using and applying knowledge of legal matters as appropriate. Ability to assimilate information rapidly and to present it orally or in writing in a clear unambiguous and concise way. Ability to communicate effectively with customers and stakeholders
10. Planning and organisation and able to prioritise work effectively. Working autonomously and as part of a team
11. Having a strong quality and customer focus. Evidence of self-motivation and able to work on own initiative with limited supervision. Approachable, co-operative, tactful, diplomatic as appropriate to the confidentiality required
12. Must be computer literate with experience of MSWord, Excel, Outlook and computerised case management systems. Possession of a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle. However, a reasonable adjustment will be considered for an applicant with a disability
We also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Kye Herbert or Kathryn Reeves
Telephone: 0116 305 6470 or 0116 305 6008
Email:
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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