Legal Assistant - Disrepair

Summary

What you'll do

Notting Hill Genesis, one of London's largest housing associations, is recruiting two Legal Assistants on 9‑month fixed-term contracts to join our Repairs team, supporting the management of complex legal cases with a particular focus on disrepair matters.

As a Legal Assistant, you'll play an important role in helping us manage legal risk, support operational teams and achieve positive outcomes for residents. Working closely with colleagues across Repairs, Housing and Legal, you'll provide practical legal support on a range of housing management issues, with a strong emphasis on disrepair cases, legal escalations and ensuring cases are progressed effectively and efficiently.

How you'll do it

• Manage a caseload of legal matters, with a particular focus on disrepair cases and other housing management issues requiring legal support.
• Prepare, draft and review legal documentation, bundles, evidence and witness statements.
• Work closely with Repairs, Housing, Safeguarding and other operational teams to ensure cases are progressed effectively and risks are identified early.
• Liaise with panel solicitors and external stakeholders where specialist legal support is required.
• Provide practical advice, training and guidance to operational colleagues on legal processes, risks and housing management issues.
• Represent NHG in external settings, including court hearings, multi-agency meetings, mediation and case review panels where appropriate.
• Maintain accurate records, update systems and monitor case data to provide clear oversight of performance and risk. l team through effective administration, document management and collaborative working.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Essential:

• Experience of working on disrepair matters or housing litigation cases.
• Understanding of social housing, tenancy management or leasehold-related legal issues.
• Legal drafting skills and experience preparing legal documentation..
• Ability to exercise sound judgement, identify risks and escalate issues appropriately.
• Familiarity with the Civil Procedure Rules, particularly in relation to recovery and legal action.
• Experience working with legal case management, debt recovery, housing-related legal matters or similar legal processes within a legal practice, housing association or comparable environment.

What's in it for you?

Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/

Selection Process

Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now!

Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to interview and assessment

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.

Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.

NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.