Legal Assistant

4 days ago

Worcester, United Kingdom Sanctuary Group Full time

Sanctuary is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.

Legal Assistant – Conveyancing

 

Worcester based with a balance of home and office working

 

£26,982 per year (pro rata)

 

35 hours per week

 

Temporary position for up to 9 months

 

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Legal Assistant – Conveyancing to join our Conveyancing team based in Worcester. As a Legal Assistant you will be dealing with all aspects of property resales for the business and the main focus of the role will be to support the delivery of conveyancing services in line with legal obligations and the Group's policies.  

 

The role of Legal Assistant - Conveyancing will include:

  • Supporting the timely processing of enquiries/applications including re-sales, assignments, staircasing, lease extensions
  • Supporting and progressing administrative tasks for the team which will include for example set up of new files, responding to re-sale enquiries, preparation of leasehold information packs and post completion tasks
  • Providing a range of support and guidance services to relevant third parties concerning the above applications and enquiries
  • Undertaking affordability assessments
  • Communicating with different teams to request and gain information to then report this back to stakeholders and management
  • Coordinating an effective legal administrative service, ensuring relevant activity is accurately recorded and maintained in line with corporate compliance
  • Building and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders

 

Skills and experiences:

  • Proven experience within a similar administrative role is essential
  • Previous experience within a customer service focused admin role
  • A working knowledge of housing regulations, legislation and current practice
  • High accuracy with excellent attention to detail
  • The ability to prioritise workload in order to meet deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills with a good telephone manner
  • Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams or similar

 

Why work for us?

One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 14,000 people and manages over 116,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.  

 

Our Benefits    

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

  • 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays (pro rata)
  • A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
  • Life Assurance
  • Employee Volunteering scheme
  • Employee Advice Service including counselling
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Voluntary health plans  
  • Employee discounts
  • Wellbeing support and tools
  • Employee recognition scheme
  • Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
  • Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues
  • £26,982 per annum (pro rata)

 

The full time equivalent salary for this role is £26,982 based on 35 hours per week rising to £28,402 after 12 months service and subject to satisfactory performance

 

To view the job profile please click here (if the link is unavailable please visit the Sanctuary careers website)

 

Closing Date: 16 October 2024

 

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

 

For an insight into what it’s like to work for us, take a look at our company page on Linkedin

 

Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference.  We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission.  We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status. 

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. 
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent unlawful working.
Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.

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