Legal Support Officer Role B - Property

Contractual hours: 37 Package: We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages., The successful candidates will need to be flexible and be able to undertake duties including drafting simple legal / transactional documents, reporting to and communicating with clients, recording information and documentation within the case management software and databases, legal research (including the use of AI) as well as general administrative duties. Experience of working in a legal environment is an advantage but not essential. The Council is an existing Unitary Authority and the Legal Services team is recognised by Lexcel as an Excellent and well-led service. We have had many award successes, including winning the 2024 LLG Legal Team of the year. Encouraging a diverse workforce Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our actions, our and the work we are doing to Why work for us? As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe
  
  We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated candidates with excellent organisational and admin skills to work as Legal Support Officers/Paralegals in the Legal Services Property Team.
This is a friendly and very busy team supporting client departments across the Council. The role requires working at least 3 to 4 days in the office at Hove Town Hall with some flexibility to work from home on other days. The successful candidate will need to be flexible and be able to undertake a range of duties including general administrative duties and have experience of using office productivity tools such as word, Excel spread sheets and other database applications for time recording and case management. Contract type: Permanent Interviews to be held: Week Commencing 7th December

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only. Please note that this post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Criminal Records Check. We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.