- Pay Rate:
£17.48 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
- WEMBLEY, LONDON,
HA9 0FJ
Temporary Legal Assistant - Housing
Reference no: Brent 5235294
Pay Rate: £17.48 per hour PAYE
36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: WEMBLEY, LONDON
To review, to handle a specific project, to seek access injunctions for circa 500 properties to carry out electrical safety inspections. Housing Legal Assistant to draft LBAs, liaise with tenants, housing officers and Managers and Wates and the disrepair team regarding access, drafting witness statements and proceedings for access injunctions for electrical safety inspections representing the council at these hearings in the County Court
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via job[email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Experience of drafting LBAs.
- Experience of drafting witness statements and proceedings for access injunctions for electrical safety inspections desirable.
- Experience of representing at hearings in the County Court.
- Good communication skills to liaise with tenants, housing officers and Managers regarding access.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
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