Legal Assistant

6 days ago

Chichester, United Kingdom WSCC Full time

**About The Job** Salary**: £20,344 - £29,174 per annum.

**Contract type**: Permanent.

**Working pattern**: Full time, 37 hours per week.

**Location**: Chichester.

Are you an excellent communicator with a passion for a career in law? Come and join Legal Services and help make a difference to the people of West Sussex.

This is a fantastic opportunity to start a career in the legal profession, working towards a CILEX qualification whilst working in a legal environment. If you would like to work in a range of legal areas commencing in the team providing legal advice in the area of criminal and education law, then this could be the job for you. You will need a flexible approach and excellent organisational skills.

In the role you will conduct court cases and other matters. including undertaking advocacy in the Magistrates’ Court, communicating with witnesses, solicitors, barristers, court officers and members of the public as required, and making appointments, arranging court hearings and securing witness attendance. You will need to have attention to detail when putting together court papers and be aware of the importance of confidentiality. You will also, provide legal advice to the Council’s independent appeals panels. The role will involve moving to work within other teams in Legal Services including civil litigation, child protection, environment and property services.

Above all, you must be a team player able to work under pressure. You will need excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with people at all levels.

**Experience and Skills** Key Skills**:

- Excellent organisational skills to facilitate meetings and meet set deadlines for preparing court bundles and service court-related papers.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Analytical and judgemental skills to interpret complex information.
- Competence in drafting / report writing.
- Ability to work as part of a team and to have a flexible and adaptable approach to work.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- A level qualifications, or equivalent experience demonstrating that level of numeracy and literacy.
- Demonstrable experience of working in an office environment, producing high quality documentation and meeting deadlines.
- Computer literate.
- Demonstrable experience of handling a varied workload, producing high quality and accurate documents and working effectively as a member of a team.

**Benefits and Rewards**
- **24** days annual leave + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually.
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme.
- A range of flexible working options.
- Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave.
- Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring.
- A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers with the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform.
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres.
- A range of commuting and business travel discount and initiatives.

**Further Information**
The reference number for this role is **CRS00643**.

**You will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota, for which an additional allowance is provided.**

Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you

Job Reference: CRS00643

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