Legal Clerk

Legal Clerk - Housing Disrepair Team

Fixed Term Contract up to 23 months

Grade A - £24,796 - £27,254

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

A brilliant opportunity to join a dynamic, progressive legal service where you will be given the opportunity to work in a large team dealing with essential housing litigation cases while learning and developing as a leading local government officer.

Birmingham City Council's legal service is unique and one of the largest in-house local authority legal teams. The City Council is on its journey of improvement and everyone within legal services is essential to the Council's success and achieving beneficial outcomes for our citizens. You could be part of this.

Legal Services covers all areas of work that the Council undertakes, from employment to property, from social care to contracts. The variety of work that our team undertakes is wide and at the highest level. The work is challenging and rewarding in equal measure. Based in Victoria Square in the City Centre, you will have excellent transport links, access to Courts and tribunals, partner organisations and all the benefits that working in the wonderful City of Birmingham brings.

Birmingham City Council is committed to achieving excellence, putting our citizens first, acting courageously and being true to our word. If this resonates with you, then we want to hear from you.

We have vacancies for Legal Clerks in our newly formed fixed term Housing Disrepair Legal Team, where you will be working with a team of paralegals, and lawyers.

As a Legal Clerk within the team you will be working on large volume cases, progressing matters in line with Court orders and directions, supporting the paralegals and lawyers with the overall aim of improving citizen wellbeing. This is meaningful work and this is your chance to join Birmingham as we invest into this area of work. Effective Legal Clerks are essential to the successful functioning of the legal service at Birmingham.

Key responsibilities

• Producing accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date legal documentation and court bundles, under direction, to tight deadlines
• Opening new legal case files using the case management system including setting up initial documentation and completing acknowledgments.
• To close files on the case management system, prepare paper files for off-site storage and update team spread sheets with case outcomes.
• Processing and responding to routine communication (received by post, telephone or email) taking messages, copying and scanning and distributing information as necessary.
• Operating legal procedures including authentication and sealing of documents, producing case management reports and assisting with routine processes such as processing invoices.

Benefits of working at Birmingham City Counci l:

• 30 days annual leave – Increases to 33 days after 5 years and 35 days after 10 years, plus option to purchase additional leave
• Access to voluntary benefits providers that support health, wellbeing and making the most of your leisure time
• Family friendly policies e.g., maternity/adoption, paternity, shared parental leave, carers’ leave
• Health and wellbeing support networks e.g., independent, and confidential employee assistance and counselling, occupational health, etc.
• Employee communities and support groups including Corporate Black Workers Support Group, Disability and LGBT+ Networks, Menopause Support Forum, etc.
• We are a disability confident employer
• Membership of job-related pension scheme , West Midlands Pension Fund or Teachers’ Pensions, with generous employer contributions
• Access to ‘My Rewards’ – over 800 individual brands providing discounts and savings including high street stores, supermarkets, utility, and insurance providers, as well as great days out … to name but a few!
• Opportunities to join great salary sacrifice schemes e.g., Cycle to Work, Annual Travel and Car Parking, as well as making the most of Tax and National Insurance savings (additional schemes to launch soon)

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact the Resourcing Team

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements , before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Sponsorship is not available for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK that does not require employer sponsorship for the duration of the appointment.

Birmingham City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our citizens and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You can view our Corporate Safeguarding Policy | Birmingham City Council here.

Job Description and Person Specification

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