Summary: The role of Legal Assistant - Childcare involves supporting a Local Government's legal team on a temporary basis, focusing on childcare-related legal matters. The position requires obtaining and reviewing legal documents, preparing legal filings, and attending court proceedings. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with various stakeholders and contribute to improving team practices. This is a full-time, remote position for a duration of three months.

Key Responsibilities:

• Obtain and review reports, witness statements, working documents, and other papers required for tribunal appeals and court hearings
• Prepare/draft and file legal documents e.g. case summaries, position statements
• Ensure that Tribunal/Court Bundles are complete, paginated, and ready for proceedings and the courts and other relevant parties receive the relevant documentation
• Attend meetings, courts, tribunals, or other forums to take notes or transcripts of proceedings
• Liaise with client departments and ensure a good level of customer service
• Work collaboratively with Northampton Children’s Trust and other teams and support the training and development of colleagues and clients
• Proactively support development of the teams working practices to increase efficiency

Key Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately (orally and in writing) with a range of stakeholders
• Flexible, positive can-do approach to managing change and work demands
• Problem solving
• Good knowledge and experience of IT systems including Office 365
• Ability to collate and analyse information and to present it clearly in writing on routine and less complex legal documentation
• CILEx LLB Hons Law or Level 3 qualified (or working towards CILEx level 3) or a similar qualification, or relevant experience in Law

Salary (Rate): 30.00

City: undetermined

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Legal