Legal Intern

3 weeks ago

Bournemouth, United Kingdom McCarthy Stone Full time

**Legal Intern**

**Location**: Bournemouth / Hybrid

**Internship date**: 1st July to 23rd August 2024

**Salary**: £11.50 per hour

**About the Role**

We are seeking an intern to join our Legal Team on an 8-week summer internship programme from 1st July to 23rd August 2024.

McCarthy Stone’s internship programme will provide you with an excellent exposure to both a commercial and a legal business environment where you will gain industry and field-related skills, and experience, while earning a competitive salary. Taking part in our programme will boost your CV and will ensure you have a deep understanding of our business, the industry that we operate in and an insight into our customers.

Our legal team works across all areas of the business so this internship will involve supporting the team with tasks such as:

- Helping to resolve legal disputes
- Problem solving
- Advising on property transactional related queries
- Drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts with suppliers
- Conducting legal research
- Horizon scanning and legal governance
- Legal administrative tasks
- Enhancing team organisational systems and processes
- Managing the general legal enquiries received into the team inbox
- Service charge management
- Rolling out new projects within the wider business

Alongside your role, you will be part of a cohort of interns which will instantly enable you to start building your internal network at McCarthy Stone. There will also be a series of Learning & Development opportunities to get involved in throughout your journey with us including insight and skills sessions and lunch and learns on key business topics.

**This internship is based in our Bournemouth head office. It is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days a week in the office.**

**About You**

**Education and Qualifications**
- Studying towards a degree and on target for a minimum of a 2:1
- 3-4 A Levels
- GCSEs in English and Maths

**Personal Attributes**
- Interested in a legal career
- Organised and works well to deadlines
- Able to multitask and prioritise
- Communicates clearly, both written and verbally
- Shows a good level of attention to detail
- Works well within a team, but equally on their own
- Good at building working relationships
- Has a flexible, positive and can-do attitude
- Computer literate and has experience in Microsoft Office software
- Confidence to ask questions and a willingness to participate

**What Next?**

As part of the selection process, you will have an initial phone or video interview. If successful, you’ll be invited to face-to-face interview.

Please note that we are not able to offer company sponsorship for student visas.

**About Us**

At McCarthy Stone, we believe that later life is filled with possibilities. We create warm and supportive retirement communities that bring people together to make lives more fulfilling. Everyone at McCarthy Stone is passionate about championing the role, wellbeing, and happiness of older people in society.

We aim to create a better understanding and appreciation of older people by playing our part in helping them to live happy and healthy lives. From senior executive positions to front-line colleagues, we have a shared vision of creating a thriving retirement community, built with innovation and heart, that celebrates later life.

We are delighted to be accredited as a Great Place to Work, and this reflects the evolving culture of excellence and inclusivity in our organisation, and the passion from our teams for what they do.

We recognise the successes, promotions, and achievements of everyone in our business and provide extensive Learning & Development opportunities to support and further you in your career.

As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.

We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list

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