Legal Support Officer Role B - Property

Brighton-; Hove; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council seeks a Legal Support Officer (Role B - Property) to join the Legal Services Property Team at Hove Town Hall. The role requires handling drafting, client communications, and case management duties with flexible office arrangements.

Candidates should have strong administrative skills and be proficient with Word and Excel. Legal environment experience is an advantage but not essential, with a pro-active, collaborative approach encouraged.

Qualifications

• Excellent organisational and admin skills.
• Experience using office productivity tools (Word, Excel) and databases for time recording/case management.
• Experience in a legal environment is advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Draft simple legal/transactional documents.
• Liaise with clients and record information in case management systems.
• Conduct legal research (including AI tools) and support administrative duties.

Skills

Administrative skills

Time management

Tools

Word

Excel

Job description

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location_on Location Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

Salary £29,071 - £34,811. Scale 4b to Scale 6, depending on skills and experience.

Basis Flexi Hours

Job profile for Legal Support Officer Role B - Property

Legal Support Officer Role B - Property

Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ 29/11/2026 Legal Support Officer Role B - Property Apply online

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Salary £29,071 - £34,811. Scale 4b to Scale 6, depending on skills and experience. Contractual hours 37 Basis Flexi Hours Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job description

We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated candidates with excellent organisational and admin skills to work as Legal Support Officers/Paralegals in the Legal Services Property Team.

This is a friendly and very busy team supporting client departments across the Council. The role requires working at least 3 to 4 days in the office at Hove Town Hall with some flexibility to work from home on other days.

The successful candidate will need to be flexible and be able to undertake a range of duties including general administrative duties and have experience of using office productivity tools such as word, Excel spread sheets and other database applications for time recording and case management.

Contract type: Permanent

Interviews to be held: Week Commencing 7th December

There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Tom Riggs, Senior Lawyer, at [e-mail] .

About the role

The successful candidates will need to be flexible and be able to undertake duties including drafting simple legal / transactional documents, reporting to and communicating with clients, recording information and documentation within the case management software and databases, legal research (including the use of AI) as well as general administrative duties.

Experience of working in a legal environment is an advantage but not essential. The Council is an existing Unitary Authority and the Legal Services team is recognised by Lexcel as an Excellent and well-led service. We have had many award successes, including winning the 2024 LLG Legal Team of the year.

Encouraging a diverse workforce Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Please note that this post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Criminal Records Check.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.