Legal Support Officer

6 months ago


Coleford, United Kingdom Forest of Dean District Council Full time

**Legal Support Officer, Coleford**

**Part time, 25 hours per week**

**About the role**

We are 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 our team and contribute towards our mission of delivering excellent public services.

This is new role which will cover the Forest of Dean. Within the District, there are plenty of places to see and visit whether you love hiking or cycling. With our agile working ethos: you will be spoilt for choice.

**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

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding the welfare of vulnerable adults, young people and children. Safer recruitment practices are applied to all job vacancies



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