Solicitor

Metropolitan Thames Valley; Sunderland; Hybrid; GBP 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in affordable housing is seeking a Supervising Solicitor/Legal Executive to lead a high-performing Legal Services Team. The role involves supervising junior lawyers, managing housing law cases, and ensuring compliance with legal standards. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and benefits, including hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

Enhanced pension with matched contributions

Health cash plan scheme

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years PQE in housing law.
• Experience in supervising and mentoring junior lawyers.
• Knowledge of housing and leasehold legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of junior lawyers in Legal Services.
• Manage a varied caseload of housing management cases.
• Ensure compliance with KPIs and SLA standards.

Skills

Supervision

Coaching

Housing Law

Stakeholder Management

Education

Admission as a Solicitor in England & Wales

Fellow of The Institute of Legal Executives (FILEX)

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Title: Supervising Solicitor/Legal Executive

Salary: £64,769

Location: London, EC1N 8JS

Permanent Role - Full-Time Position 37.5hrs Hybrid role – 3 days to be based in the office

MTVH conducts an annual review of salaries for colleagues. The salary displayed does reflect any agreements reached during our 2025 review.

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK’s leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1900 colleagues to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, East Midlands, Southern and the East of England. We are a proud member of the National Housing Federation the G15 – which represents London’s largest housing associations – we influence policy for the benefits of our residents and the wider sector.

We’re looking for a confident and self-motivated Supervising Solicitor/Legal Executive with proven experience of supervising and coaching junior lawyers. You will be responsible for supervising and conducting housing management and leasehold cases and leading and mentoring a team of junior lawyers to support all functions of the Legal Services Team.

This is an opportunity to join a high performing in-house Legal Services Team at the beginning of a journey of expansion and to help shape the future of the Legal Services provision at MTVH.

The role

The Key Responsibilities For The Role Are

• To lead an efficient and high performing team of junior lawyers to support all functions of the Legal Services Team
• To supervise, mentor, coach and develop junior colleagues to deliver a cohesive, high performing department, providing a consistent service of the highest standards to protect the interests of MTVH whilst supporting successful completion of training and qualifications
• To manage a varied caseload covering housing management and leasehold disputes and work cross-functionally to protect the interests of MTVH
• To monitor and ensure compliance with KPI’s and SLA standards and make recommendations on best practice to the Head of Legal Services
• To prepare and deliver effective training as required on a variety of housing management, leasehold and property law issues to colleagues
  
  

What You'll Need To Succeed

• Admission as a Solicitor in England & Wales or a Fellow of The Institute of Legal Executives (FILEX).
• Substantial post qualification experience (a minimum of 5 years PQE) in housing law acting on behalf of social landlords and tenants gained in private practice, local authority or in-house RP legal team.
• Detailed knowledge of housing and leasehold legislation, case law, litigation practice and procedure and managing complex legal cases.
• Experience in managing and coaching a high performing team and the ability to create a learning culture where knowledge and best practice is shared.
• Proven experience in building and sustaining working relationships with key stakeholders and partners both internal and external and act as a “go to” person
  
  

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What’s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
  
  

About Us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability
  
  

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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