Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
1. Taking instructions from clients and assist with the giving of legal advice, including obtaining evidence and, where appropriate, to achieve appropriate resolutions for the clients.
2. Achieve time recording and fee income targets to ensure profitable working.
3. Attend and contribute to team/practice area meetings and comply with directions/decisions made to ensure team objectives are achieved.
4. Keep up to date with changes in relevant law and practice and attend appropriate training events to ensure up to date legal knowledge and best practice.
5. Liaising with core stakeholders including case managers and other fee earners within the business regarding care issues that arise on all directly employed care packages. These could range from change of hours to matters where support workers are suspended and investigated due to conduct issues.
6. Assisting with the management of client finances under the supervision of the deputy which would include; paying invoices, purchasing equipment, setting up new bank accounts and standing orders, assisting with the management of household utilities, preparing spreadsheets, taking notes during client meetings.
7. Liaising with the Court of Protection
About You
8. Empathy and compassion to help guide our clients through challenging personal circumstances.
9. A friendly, enthusiastic, and can-do approach
10. Previous Paralegal experience, including within Court of Protection is welcome but not a necessity
11. A passion for personal law
We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them
12. To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
13. To be approachable and caring
14. To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
15. To be efficient in the provision of our services
16. To work with a foundation of integrity.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application. Applications will close on Monday 25th August.
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
17. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
18. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
19. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
20. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.