Legal Assistant - Regulatory Team

North Northamptonshire Council; Corby; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Hybrid and flexible working

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Benefits Scheme

Wellbeing support

HMRC travel rates

Job summary

North Northamptonshire Council is seeking a Legal Assistant to join our in-house Regulatory Team. You will provide high‑quality legal support across Planning, Highways, general Litigation, employment and licensing, helping to ensure compliance with the law.

You will work under senior guidance, support fee earners, and help enable service delivery for our residents in North Northamptonshire. The role offers a busy caseload and opportunities to develop within a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Hold CILEx, LLB Hons Law or be Level 3 qualified (or working towards CILEx Level 3) or a similar qualification, or have relevant experience in Law.
• Support the provision of legal advice commensurate to officers, client services and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong organisational skills with the ability to use initiative and prioritise workloads.
• Be able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Draft routine pleadings.
• Obtain and review reports, witness statements, working documents and papers for tribunal appeals and court hearings.
• Prepare/draft and file legal documents such as case summaries and position statements.
• Ensure Tribunal/Court Bundles are complete, paginated and ready for proceedings; distribute documentation to courts and relevant parties.
• Attend meetings, Courts, tribunals or other forums to take notes or transcripts of proceedings.

Skills

Organisational skills

Initiative

Teamwork

Education

CILEx

LLB Hons Law

Level 3 qualification / similar legal qualification

Job description

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Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28days, rising to 33days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

Join our Regulatory Team as a Legal Assistant

North Northamptonshire Council is an ambitious, exciting, innovative and supportive place to work. The Council is committed to focused service delivery to improve the lives of our residents.

Join our Legal Services Regulatory Team as a Legal Assistant and play a key role in supporting the delivery of vital public services across our local authority.

As a Legal Assistant within our in-house legal team, you will work on a diverse and rewarding caseload, providing high-quality legal support to fee earners to ensure compliance with the law.

As a member of the team, you will be supported at a senior level and by your peers in a growing and developing team of professionals. The team’s focus is on enabling service delivery, to achieve this we adopt a partnering model with our clients, supporting them to deliver an ambitious agenda for North Northamptonshire.

What will you be doing?

We are looking for a Legal Assistant to join our in-house Regulatory team. The role will require you to support the provision of legal advice to client services in the areas of Planning, Highways, general Litigation, employment and licensing including:

Supporting these areas by:

• drafting routine pleadings;
• obtain and review reports, witness statements, working documents and other papers required for tribunal appeals and court hearings;
• prepare/draft and file legal documents e.g. case summaries, position statements;
• ensure that Tribunal/Court Bundles are complete, paginated and ready for proceedings and the courts and other relevant parties receive the relevant documentation;
• attend meetings, courts, tribunals or other forums to take notes or transcripts of proceedings.

The closing date for applications is 8th November 2026.

About you

You will:

• Hold CILEx, LLB Hons Law or be Level 3 qualified (or working towards CILEx level 3) or a similar qualification, or have relevant experience in Law.
• Effectively and appropriately support the provision of legal advice commensurate to officers, client services other stakeholders.
• Have good organisational skills with ability to use initiative and prioritise workloads.
• Be able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)