Legal Executive Conveyancing

Golearnleicestershire; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive pay

Pension scheme

Job summary

Nottingham City Council seeks a Legal Assistant for the Legal Services Conveyancing Team. The role involves conducting routine conveyancing and property transactions, preparing documentation, and providing property-related legal advice to multiple departments.

We offer hybrid working, competitive pay, generous pension, and leave entitlements. The successful candidate will join a busy team and support disposals, leases, and asset projects.

Qualifications

• Some experience of handling routine property legal work.
• Experience with preparation and completion of conveyancing and related documentation.
• Ability to plan and organise own workload and work flexibly in a pressured environment.
• Ability to work largely independently on a large volume of routine conveyancing matters.
• Clear oral and written communication and ability to work as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct routine conveyancing and property related transactions.
• Advise on and prepare necessary documentation for conveyancing and related matters.
• Deal with disposals, lettings and a range of property related legal advice across Council departments.
• Support asset rationalisation, regeneration projects and other property related advice.

Skills

Property law experience

Conveyancing documentation

Workload management

Independent working

Team communication

Job description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £29,542 (Level one) rising to £32,046 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location:Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

The Legal Services Conveyancing Team is recruiting for a Legal Assistant to join its busy team. The role will conducting routine conveyancing and property related transactions including advising upon preparing and completing all necessary documentation. The work will include disposals, lettings and a variety of property related legal advice.

The successful candidate will be dealing with a range of routine in-house conveyancing and property related transactions and legal advice to various departments within the Council. You will be dealing with a range of property transactions on behalf of various Council departments which include Right to Buy disposals, auctions sales and other disposals, purchases, granting of leases, lease management transactions, licences, easements, supporting the Council’s asset rationalisation, regeneration projects and other property related advice.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Some experience of handling routine property legal work
• Experience of dealing with the preparation and completion of conveyancing and other property related documentation
• Experience of planning and organising own workload and be able to work flexibly in a pressured environment
• Ability to work largely independently on a large volume of routine conveyancing matters
• Ability to communicate clearly both orally and in writing and to demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team

You can find the job description for this post here.

This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Therefore, applicants must have an existing right to work in the UK and not require sponsorship from Nottingham City Council, either now or in the future.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional informationfor applicants page.

For informal enquiriesplease contact Mick Suggett, Solicitor and Team Leader of the Conveyancing Team, by telephone on 0115 8763198 or by email at [e-mail]

Closing Date: Midnight on 18th October 2026

Interviews will be held:Dates to be confirmed