Legal Services Manager
London
Contract
£30.14 per hour PAYE or £39.45 per hour limited paid via umbrella company inside IR35
Our client is looking for an experienced is looking for Legal Services Manager
2 days remote, 3 days in the office at Fleet House and Mosaic East, 4th Floor, 17 Addiscombe Rd,
Our vision is to create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place where they’re proud to live. We’re big and we’re local. Residents are at the heart of all we and we use our size to influence positive change in the areas where we operate.
It’s also about living our values which are at the HEART of what we do. All colleagues are
expected to demonstrate a commitment to our values through their behaviours, actions and words on a daily basis. As a valued member of the Southern Housing Team, you’ll embrace our Values to inspire others as well as yourself to be
• Honest
• Efficient
• Accountable
• Respectful
• Trusted
You’ll demonstrate our HEART values in your behaviours. You’ll:
• Be authentic, open, and transparent in your actions and words.
• Believe that by working together we accomplish more, and work hard every day to improve services, efficiency, and value for money.
• Take responsibility for delivering excellence and own your own actions.
• Embrace difference, and put our residents, colleagues and our partners are at the heart
of all you do.
• Do what you say you will and be relied upon to keep your promises.
And, of course, show commitment to our approach to Equality Diversity & Inclusion, Health & Safety, Compliance and Code of Conduct policies and practices within Southern Housing.
The role
To provide high quality legal advice on litigation related matters in particular housing
management and landlord & tenant contentious matters to Southern Housing and its Group partners. To draft legal proceedings, witness statements and pleadings as instructed and carry out advocacy (excluding trials) as required across all Southern Housing regions. To prepare and provide effective training as required on a variety of housing law issues to colleagues. Be a single point of excellence for one of 4 main areas of focus for this side of the team: Disrepair;
Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB); leaseholder disputes and tenancy compliance.
Reporting to: Head of Legal Services (Litigation)
The location
You’ll be based at one of our main offices in either Farringdon, Croydon, Isle of Wight,
Maidstone or Sittingbourne, with the option for working in a hybrid way when appropriate and as agreed with your manager.
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What you’ll be doing:
• To provide legal advice and assistance housing management and landlord & tenant
matters. To include conducting efficient and effective litigation to include but not limited
to, anti-social behaviour injunctions; anti-social behaviour possession claims; committal
applications; tenancy fraud possession claims; access injunctions; housing disrepair
claims; prosecutions under the Environmental Protection Act; applications to the Court of
Protection and money claims, briefing Counsel and/or conducting advocacy where
appropriate in order to protect the interests of Southern Housing and its partners.
• To assist and provide advice on other contentious matters.
• To assist with instructing external solicitors for matters that cannot be dealt with in[1]house.
• To assist in developing the in-house legal provision to meet the needs of Southern
Housing and its partners.
• To ensure that legal work is carried out in house where this is more cost effective
including preparing and drafting all own pleadings to include but not limited to, notices of
seeking possession; claim forms; particulars of claim; defences; reply to defences; part
20 counterclaims; injunctions; committal applications, witness statements; case
summaries; lists of issues; chronologies and trial bundles. Ensure communication
between instructing officers and the legal team is effective and efficient.
• To develop and implement processes and procedures to ensure the efficient and
effective provision of housing management and other litigation services and advice on
landlord & tenant law including the provision of witness support in particular to those
witnesses involved with anti-social behaviour cases which includes out of office hours
visits to their homes, if required.
• To comply with the approved processes and procedures, including maintaining data
records and registers as required by the Director of Legal Services. Ensure sound data
management, both in case management and in passing on key data to other
departments in a timely fashion.
• To keep up to date with the constitutional, legal and regulatory framework within which
Housing Associations operate. This also includes keeping up to date records in
accordance with the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s continuing competence
requirements. To ensure that such knowledge is shared to encourage a knowledgeable
and compliance focused culture.
• To support the junior legal team members and volunteers and provide general
assistance to the legal team.
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The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities. Colbern Limited along with our clients
are an equal opportunities employer