Legal Support Officer

7 months ago

Cirencester, United Kingdom Cotswold District Council Full time

Cotswold District is a great place to live, work and visit, and we are rightly proud of our businesses, communities and residents. We are busy recreating a council that’s pro-active and responsive to the needs of our residents and businesses in a fast changing environment. That means we need to be ‘fleet of foot’ and look for innovative and creative ways to deliver against our Corporate Plan priorities.

**About the role**

Cotswold District Council is on the lookout for a proactive and efficient Legal Support Officer to enhance our Legal Services team. This role is pivotal in supporting our team of lawyers with administrative tasks and development of administration requirements, records and systems.

Key Responsibilities:

- Providing administrative support such as copying, collating court bundles and other documents.
- Maintaining a compliant filing system, including opening and closing files.
- Scanning and updating Council deed records lists, sealing and binding documents when necessary.
- Managing diaries and inboxes for the Legal Services team.
- Coordinating requests for document executions by attaching the Council's seal.
- Managing and updating the Legal library and archive.
- Carrying out daily maintenance of Legal Support software/systems.
- Handling non-contentious enquiries regarding ex-local authority properties and Freedom of Information requests.
- Overseeing the payment of invoices and maintaining stationery stocks.
- Liaising with other service officers, Barristers and Court officials in support of Chartered Legal Executives and Solicitors.

Join Cotswold District Council and contribute towards our mission of delivering excellent public services.

**You will need**
- Educated to A-level or equivalent standard.
- A high level of IT skills to undertake the inputting of complex data accurately onto different systems
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Proactive/self-motivated
- 3 years’ experience of working in a multi-disciplined environment in a supporting role

For more information about this role please see the Job Description/Person Specification.

**What can we do for you **
- Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working
- Flexible working arrangements _(depending on the role)_
- 26 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays, which increases to 29 days after five years of service
- In addition you will have an extra two volunteering days a year for you to support a charity of your choice
- Health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care
- Generous contributory local government pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with huge tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars
- Paid for access to digital financial advice (covering mortgages and other finances)
- Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements

Terms and conditions apply

These are just a handful of the benefits that you can enjoy when you join us

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