Legal Disrepair Business Support Officer

Job Introduction
**Job Title**:Legal Disrepair Business support Officer

**Salary**: £30,000

**Contract**: Permanent

**Location**: Northwest

**Weekly Hours**: 35

**So. What is this role exactly?**

This is an exciting opportunity for a Legal Disrepair Support Officer to work within the Asset management legal disrepair team.

The role requires someone with relevant experience and who is qualified or working towards a relevant qualification and who has the business acumen to motivate other members within the internal legal disrepair team and more widely within the group to provide support to other colleagues within the business.

The Legal Disrepair Business Support Officer will undertake multi complex legal administrative & operational duties, research & development and be able to use data analytical tools. In addition to providing support for the case handlers.

Importantly this role requires someone with the natural flair & ability to influence the decision-making process and who can support the legal disrepair team.

**What will my working week look like?**

You will be a regional worker, living within the Northwest, within a reasonable travelling distance of our Head Office in Warrington.

You will attend regular team meetings and training courses and both our regional head offices and other regional offices as and when required.

**What will I be responsible for doing?**

You will set up all new claims onto the YHG data base systems, and ensure full responses and disclosures are provided for all new claims within the requisite legislative timescales.

You will allocate disrepair claims, and directly instruct internal YHL colleagues, external surveyors, solicitors, barristers, agencies and organisations as necessary to minimise potential risk & financial loss to the organisation through the effective case management and response to legal disrepair claims

You will have knowledge and proven experience of contract law and litigation enforcement experience and be someone with the ability to work alone but someone who also works well within a team environment.

One of the great things about this role is the opportunity for professional advancement and continual professional development. As well as the variety of challenges you will face as a Legal Disrepair Business Support Officer you will find that no 2 days are ever the same.

You will have a proven record of working independently on your own litigation and / or client case loads without the need for close supervision and you will have excellent legal drafting skills on various Court documents / Injunctions /witness statements.

**And what would make me stand out from the crowd?**

To be a successful as a Legal Disrepair Business Support Officer**,** here at YHG, you will have..

Case / litigation administrative experience, whether as a claimant or defendant litigator with experience of all general areas of litigation, and in particular Contract law, Housing law, Possession actions.

You will have previous experience and be able to demonstrate key leadership administrative skills whilst dealing with critical developing situations.

You will currently hold a business degree and / or be training towards an equivalent CILEX administrative qualification.

Ideally you will be a well-motivated collaborative team player with the ability to work autonomously and with mínimal supervision.

You will have the personal and professional drive and desire to excel in this area of litigation and be able to provide support to other members of the team as and when required

You will have relevant experience of working with claimants whether within legal private practice, local government agencies or within the Social Housing Sector

This role is ideally suited to someone with the skill set, confidence and ability needed to make on the spot critical judgments and someone who can naturally support others in order to achieve successful outcomes.

This role also offers genuine progression opportunities and support to excel both in terms of administration and experience and more widely within the general area of defendant litigation.

If you want a challenging and rewarding role that makes you want to be the best that you can be and which provides you with a structured and supported career path then we would love to hear from you

**That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?**

In return we offer £30,000 for a 35-hour week, and 25 days (pro-rata) annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee deal offers much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

We trust our people to manage their own diary’s, if you need time for an appointment, the school run or an exercise class, as long as it fits within the business needs, we’re open to what works for you too. And when you need to collaborate with your team, you can visit Youggle House - our wellbeing, social, collaboration and meeting space, in Birchwood, W