Senior Legal Counsel - Housing Litigation

Michael Page (UK); Wembley; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social housing provider in London is seeking a legal professional to manage a team and supervise the legal caseload related to housing matters. The ideal candidate will have strong housing law experience and a valid Practising Certificate. This permanent position offers an opportunity to contribute to a supportive and high-performing environment.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar legal role with housing law focus.
• Demonstrable experience in managing tenancy management legal matters.
• Proven track record of handling complex legal cases.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and monitor legal caseload for housing matters.
• Provide high-quality legal advice to the business.
• Lead and manage a legal team effectively.

Skills

Housing law knowledge

Experience managing a legal caseload

Supervision of team members

Education

Valid Practising Certificate

Job description

• Market leading Housing Association
• Supervising & monitoring the caseload for all housing related matters

About Our Client

This is a permanent opportunity within a well-established Social Housing provider based in London. The organisation operates with a medium-sized team, focusing on meaningful initiatives and fostering a professional work environment.

Job Description

Managing a team, you'll be responsible for supervising and monitoring the legal caseload for all housing related matters. You will partner with the business to provide high quality and result oriented legal advice, ensuring that the legal team provides excellent customer-focused legal services to its clients. You'll also be responsible for your own caseload of complex legal cases in relation to housing and tenancy management, ensuring resolution and seeking to protect and serve the best interests. This includes:

• Claims relating to housing disrepair, possession, injunction and breach of tenancy
• Access injunctions for gas and electricity safety
• Liability assessments and solution advice
• Negotiating settlements and cost agreements
• Leasehold management advice
• ASB injunctions

Other responsibilities include:

• Providing strategic input to the business to help deliver key deliverables, objects and the corporate plan
• Effective leadership of the team, ensuring a supportive and positive environment to enable high performance
• Creating, designing and managing team quality controls within the legal team, such as working on procedures and processes, adapting to legal changes, compliance with legal standards, monitoring risk and client care
• Assisting in the review, creation and drafting of policies and procedures for SNG ensuring compliance with legislation and regulation
• Carrying out duties in relation to contract management of the panel of external solicitor firms used for legal services by the organisation
• Supporting with the performance of the external panel solicitors

The Successful Applicant

You'll need previous experience in a similar legal role, with demonstrable experience in legal matters relating to housing and tenancy management. You'll also need:

• A valid Practising Certificate (or equivalent) to ensure you can carry out Reserved Work as defined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, as well as be responsible for the supervision of members of the team who are not qualified to undertake Reserved Work
• Significant PQE, working within a legal department, housing association or local authority and managing own legal caseload of similar cases
• Excellent housing law knowledge and proven experience in handling complex cases
• Experience of supervising others work and managing a high functioning team

What's on Offer

For further information relating to this role, including details of the package on offer for this permanent position, please apply to this advert.