Paralegal

A2Dominion Housing Group Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK housing association is seeking a Paralegal to join their Legal Services Team in Ealing, offering a hybrid working model. The role involves supporting property transactions, managing caseloads, and performing legal research. Ideal candidates should possess a law degree or equivalent, along with strong IT and communication skills. Benefits include competitive salary, flexible working, and professional development opportunities, making it a perfect step for a motivated individual looking to enhance their legal career.

Benefits

25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays)

Up to 8% contributory pension

Flexible working

Investment in learning and development

Up to £300 health and lifestyle benefits

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English.
• Completed law degree / CPE / GDL or equivalent.
• Experience of managing own caseload.

Responsibilities

• Assist in meeting objectives as outlined in service level agreement.
• Manage own caseload of property transactional work under supervision.
• Carry out legal research using appropriate sources.
• Ensure a high level of organisation and manage files and calendar.

Skills

Strong IT and communication skills

Organisational skills

Ability to prioritise

Residential property law experience

Education

Law degree / CPE / GDL or equivalent

CILEX Level 3 Professional Diploma

GCSE level in Maths and English (Grades A*- C)

Tools

Lexis Nexis

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)

Job description

Paralegal

Location: Ealing - Hybrid working

Starting Salary: £35,053

Contract: Permanent, Full time, 35 hours per week

About us

We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

About the Legal Team

The Legal Team is a high achieving in house team providing litigation and transactional property legal services. As an entrepreneurial team, we are constantly looking at how we can add value and improve the services provided to A2Dominion so that it can reinvest back into its social purpose. We also support professional and personal development, and many of our team members have been promoted into their roles and supported to qualification. It is because of this success, that we now have this opportunity in our team, owing to team members moving on to new roles consisting of promotions and new areas of law. The Transactions Team in particular, deals with many areas of property transactions for freehold, leasehold and shared ownership properties, including resales, staircasing, lease extensions, deeds of variation, asset disposals and right to acquire. We also regularly provide advice, with deed interpretation and title structure research being the main areas where this is provided. The Team is also currently exploring opportunities to assist A2Dominion with access requests and the alterations process. The Team is inclusive and diverse, and collaborate well together. We’re looking for people who can enhance our offering, are team spirited, and those who maintain an interest in what is happening in law and within A2Dominion.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Paralegal to join our dedicated Legal Services Team. This role will be tasked with supporting the Transaction division with administration as well as managing their own caseload.

Key responsibilities

• Assist the team in meeting and exceeding its objectives as outlined in its service level agreement
• Assist qualified members of the Transactions Team with all administration tasks associated with their matters. This includes file set ups, drafting simple correspondence, issuing consents, arranging signing and sealing, dealing with completion, post completion, and requisitions from Land Registry, and archiving documents
• Manage own caseload of property transactional work under supervision. This will involve a substantial amount of drafting of deeds and other contracts. Matter type allocation will be dependent on level of experience and training will be provided as needed
• Carry out legal research using Lexis Nexis, Land Registry, Companies House and other sources as appropriate
• Manage files and Transactions calendar, and ensure a high level of organisation, including good document and task management
• Track new matters and fees within case management software and on spreadsheets
• Use Microsoft office for tasks including Word for track changes and Excel for spreadsheets
• Ensure that expenditure is forecasted and captured correctly, this includes recording time taken to carry out work and recording disbursements against matters
• Performance focused and deliver an excellent service to our Clients and Stakeholders
• Explore ways of self-development in line with team objectives
• Represent Legal Services with internal and external teams including attending Client meetings and working collaboratively with Clients and others
• Actively participate in improvements to service and feedback on projects and changes made

More about you

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A*- C)
• Completed law degree / CPE / GDL or equivalent or CILEX Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice or Level 4 Higher Apprenticeship in Legal Services
• Strong IT and communication skills
• Demonstrable organisational skills and the ability to prioritise
• Experience of managing own caseload
• Residential property law experience – Desirable

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

• 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Flexible working
• Investment in your learning and development.

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: [e-mail]

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer

We are committed to employing disabled people and will:

• actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
• provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
• offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
• make reasonable adjustments as required

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting the role requirements

We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at [e-mail].

A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity,and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.