£34,416 - £35,448 per annum

About Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role
This is a great opportunity to work as a Legal Assistant in a busy in-house legal team. The role entails working closely with our Social Care Lawyers. You will undertake work on a wide range of challenging and interesting cases. Your day-to-day work will include assisting fee earners with routine correspondence, administrative tasks, court bundling, contacting expert witnesses, disclosure, attending Court, and progressing your own caseload of section 7 and 37 matters.
About the team

This is an exciting time to join our excellent and friendly Lexcel accredited in-house legal team, which is delivering an efficient and high-quality legal service that enables the council to deliver its corporate priorities.

About you
We are looking for confident, motivated, resilient people with strong communication and influencing skills. You will able to work on your own initiative, objectively, calmly and efficiently under pressure in order to deal with priorities and manage time. You must also be able to develop and maintain good relationships with clients and key stakeholders.

Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk
 
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