Paralegal (Pre Proceedings Team) Warwick, West Midlands, England
Job description
About Us and The Role
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 Children and Families Legal Team is a busy and dynamic team within Warwickshire Legal Services consisting of approximately 50 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 also undertaking work for other Local Authorities.
We are looking to recruit a Paralegal to work within our Pre-Proceedings Court Team and who will provide support to our Solicitors and Legal Assistants on a variety of child protection cases. Your responsibilities will include setting up pre proceedings meetings, instruction expert assessors, preparing bundles, assisting Legal Assistants with requesting evidence and other routine legal matters, and ensuring that our case management system and pre-proceedings trackers are kept up to date in line with our Lexcel Accreditation. You may occasionally be required to attend court hearings in order to provide assistance to solicitors or counsel on more complex hearings and to take notes.
We are looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You must be able to work under pressure as part of a busy legal team and have the ability to react to unforeseen and urgent demands. You will need 6 months of relevant experience in this area of practice. You will also need to have strong IT literacy and good organisation skills.
We are based at Shire Hall in Warwick but currently 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.
For more information about the role, please see the job description and person specification.
Additional Information
Should you wish to obtain further information about the role, please contact Richard Clark on [email protected]
Closing date: Monday 21st August 2023
Interviews: W/C 4th September 2023
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As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification.
Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact [email protected] and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce, this is because we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds within our workforce. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups. WCC has a number of staff network groups which provide peer support and safe spaces for employees who hold these and other identities. See more.
