AddressWe are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated person with excellent organisational and admin skills to work as a Legal Support Officer/Paralegal 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 2/3 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.
Experience of working in a legal environment is an advantage but not essential.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 17th March 2023
To enquire further please email hannah.bassett@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Job Details IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MANAGERS:
As soon as your job has been approved by the recruitment team your role will be published into redeployment for a period of 1 week (unless you are affected by a period of vacancy controls). Your job will then be posted externally for a 2 week period once redeployment has finished.
If you have specific dates in mind for advertising, please make this clear in the job notes section below.
You also need to put your chosen application method and business case in the notes section. The 4 application methods are listed below:
- Application Form & Statement
- Application Form & Branching questions
- CV & Statement
- CV & Branching questions
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We would expect the majority of roles to be either frontline/office-based or working in a hybrid way (Options 1 or 2). By exception, and where there is a hard to recruit “professional” /specialist role for a fixed term temporary assignment, recruiting managers may consider allowing the role holder to spend the majority of their time working remotely from home, with only occasional attendance at the office required (Option 3 below). As the Council is still currently piloting its hybrid working arrangements and to ensure consistent and equitable treatment, such arrangements in Option 3 would need to be discussed and agreed in consultation with your HR business partner in the first instance.
Please confirm selection in the Internal notes section:
- Frontline roles or those that have remained office-based throughout
- Part office / part home
- Remote working with occasional attendance in the office
(IMPORTANT NOTE – OPTION 3 ONLY TO BE USED BY EXCEPTION)
Additional InformationYour starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
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.
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)
Company InformationEncouraging 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. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
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 fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Package DescriptionLegal Support Officer/Paralegal
Permanent Position
37 hours per week
Salary: Scale 5 – Scale 6 (£26,873 to £31,364)
Interviews to take place week commencing: 25th March 2024
