£30,585 - £36,708 per annum
Welcome to SLLP
We provide a wide range of legal services to the London Boroughs of Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, making us the largest local authority shared legal service in the Country. As such, we are able to offer employment opportunities across all aspects of local government legal work. We take pride in offering a high quality and proactive legal service, bringing all the insight that being an in house service involves and combining that with commercial expertise and a breadth of experience smaller teams may not be able to offer.
We are based in South West London and in normal times, our team can work out of any of 5 locations as well as remotely - agile working has been business as usual for a long time in SLLP. We have a wide range of flexible working options and have developed a number of health and well-being initiatives over the years.
We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic applicants, keen to develop their skills in a public sector environment. Please do not be put off if you don’t have local government expertise – it is your determination to provide a top class legal service which will matter most, the rest can follow.
This opportunity is for a Legal Assistants to join our Social Care & Education Team undertaking exciting opportunities to handle a variety and interesting workload for 5 London Boroughs (Merton, Richmond, Sutton, Kingston and Wandsworth. As part of your role, you will assist and support lawyers across the Shared Legal Service in conducting care proceedings and providing legal advice to Children’s Services. You will also hold your own caseload of private law matters. SLLP are committed to developing individuals’ legal skills and will provide exciting personal development opportunities as well as career progression in a supportive environment.
We offer the opportunity to work with professional clients, to enhance your knowledge of care proceedings from a local authority perspective and the opportunity to provide training to clients.
Closing Date: 08 April 2021
Interviews will be held on 22nd April 2021.
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