Bradford Citizens Advice

Specialist Housing Caseworker

The Post-holder will offer housing law (residential landlord and tenant) advice and representation to clients. The post-holder may also be required to provide support in relation to housing law on other contracts.

Salary: £27,344 – £29,439 (Plus 5% pension contribution)
Hours: 37 per week
Holidays: 25 days plus 8 bank holidays plus 3 additional days
Location: Main base Bradford Manor Row Office

Closing date: 9am Friday 17th February 2023
Interview date: Wednesday 1st March 2023

For an Application pack please contact Naj Ilyas, by email: admin@bradfordcab.com or by telephone; 01274-758030.

We are committed to working towards equal opportunities for all groups subject to discrimination.

A2 Dominion

Various opportunities in our highly successful in house legal team including:

• • In house legal counsel – team manager (litigation) 1x permanent (£60639 – £73405)
  • In house legal counsel (litigation) 1x permanent 1x maternity cover from April (12 months fixed term) (£51,414 – £62,238)
  • Paralegal apprentices (route to CILEX qualification) 1-2x opportunities, 2 year fixed term wrapped around a professional study requirement and successful assessments/exams (£25,250 (increasing in increments on exams being successfully passed))

Salaries offered will be dependent on experience and due to be evaluated April 2023 and based on level of experience and A2Dominion’s pay policy guidelines

LOCATION  Hybrid – some office (Ealing/Paddington) and home

HOURS  35 Hours per week apart from apprentices who have a 1 day study day per week

We’re a flexible working employer and are able to consider part time and job share arrangements

For more details and how to apply, please contact ausilia.matraxia@a2dominion.co.uk

About A2Dominion Group

We are a residential property group with a social purpose. Our vision is to improve people’s lives through high quality homes and services. Whilst we take a commercial approach to housebuilding, we reinvest all of our profits into building more new homes and supporting the communities where we work, so by working with us, you are making a difference.

We provide affordable, private and social rented homes, student, NHS and temporary accommodation, as well as supported housing and homes for older people. We also offer high-quality sustainable homes for sale and shared ownership, available through our FABRICA by A2Dominion brand. Whilst we take a commercial approach to housebuilding, all of the surpluses the Group generates are reinvested into supporting our social purpose, helping to deliver more homes and services for customers.

This is an exciting time to join A2Dominion and be part of the Group’s change programme, which is transforming the way we work and improving the services we deliver to our customers.

ABOUT THE LEGAL TEAM

The Legal Team is a high achieving in house legal team providing litigation and transactional property legal services. As an entrepreneurial department and team, we are constantly looking at how we can add value and improve the services provided to A2Dominion so that it can reinvest back into its social purpose. We also support professional and personal development, and many of our team members have been promoted into their roles and supported to qualification. It is because of this success, that we now have a number of opportunities in our team, owing to team members moving on to new roles consisting of promotions and new areas of law. The litigation team in particular, deals with all areas of housing management including leasehold, carries out ASB and possession and other litigation, and currently, there is a disrepair focus. The team is inclusive and diverse, and work really well as a team. We’re looking for people who can enhance our offering, are team spirited, and those who maintain an interest in what is happening in law and within A2Dominion.

If you have the knowledge and skills and an abundance of practical experience, but are yet to qualify into law, we’d also like to hear from you!

ABOUT THE ROLES

The inhouse legal counsel – Team Manager post includes both supervisory and delivery responsibilities and an expectation that you can manage both a caseload of housing management matters for the internal client group and the management of a team; all the while ensuring compliance with SRA and Money Laundering requirements. The team currently consists of 3 in house legal counsel (you will be line managing between 3-6 lawyers/juniors or a mix of both) and the team supported by up to 3-4 paralegals /paralegal apprentices. In terms of delivery, you will have sound judgment and deliver excellent legal advice and be comfortable advising the Group in respect of policy and procedure where required, and provide training as appropriate. The role requires allocation of work, regular team contact, and reporting on activity, cost savings achieved and income generated.

You will be a qualified lawyer with a right to practice in England and Wales, have experience of litigation in particular in landlord and tenant and be financially literate. This role has supervisory responsibility as well line management responsibilities, so we are looking for a solicitor with previous line management experience who knows how to support a successful and high performing team and keep them engaged.

The inhouse legal counsel post is for a competent housing management lawyer able to work without supervision, and with a love of the law and zest for ensuring that our client’s properties are fit for purpose and inhabited by those entitled to be doing so. You will have sound judgment and deliver excellent legal advice and be comfortable advising the Group in respect of policy and procedure where required, and provide training as appropriate.

You will be a qualified lawyer with a right to practice in England and Wales, have experience of litigation in particular in landlord and tenant (preferably from a landlord/developer’s perspective) and be financially literate. You will be expected to support the paralegals in their roles where they are assisting you on your cases and be a positive influence on the wider team.

The paralegal (apprentice) posts are for law graduates with some legal experience, and a dream of qualifying and practicing law. You’ll have an interest in social housing/landlord and tenant and a passion for learning.

Rewards and Benefits

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel fairly rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits (up to £300), salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life. You are also provided with discounted childcare vouchers and cycling equipment throughout the year, and you pay for them by monthly salary deductions. On top of all of this you will also receive 25 days annual leave, usually grace days (leave days) between Christmas and the new year, and excellent pension benefits.

Closing Date: rolling recruitment for some of the posts

The Group is committed to equality of opportunity. We guarantee an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

For more details and how to apply, please contact ausilia.matraxia@a2dominion.co.uk 

Paralegal (Housing /Public Law)
Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU)

Job Title:       Paralegal

Hours:           Part Time (21 hours per week) for a fixed term of 9 months with the possibility of an extension of up to 12 months)

Salary:           £24,800 – £31,179 (including London weighting) depending on experience Location:           London

Deadline:      9am Monday 27^th February 2023

ATLEU is looking for a dynamic and committed individual to join our legal team as a Paralegal to assist our Housing and Public Law solicitors.  This is an exciting role, offering opportunities for growth and development, to build your housing and public law experience and knowledge through working on emerging issues affecting victims of trafficking, and effecting change for this hugely vulnerable group. The role involves providing housing and public law advice and representation to survivors of trafficking and slavery under a legal aid contract and will work primarily on housing cases.

We are a friendly, multidisciplinary team and this role offers the opportunity to learn and develop skills under supervision about housing and public law. You would also work alongside  colleagues practising immigration, compensation, working in finance, fundraising and operations, and who are involved in cutting edge policy work and improving survivor participation in the sector.

ATLEU welcomes applications from candidates with different levels of experience. This might mean you are at the start of your legal career with limited casework experience or more experienced and currently practising in legal aid with housing or public law experience. If you are at the start of your career or even if you have more experience but are new to working with survivors of trafficking, we welcome your application. We offer internal training for all new starters if they are less familiar with trafficking work.

We are looking for candidates who are intelligent, resilient, exceptional communicators and passionate about ATLEU’s mission and values.  We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. We particularly welcome applicants from those who are significantly underrepresented in our sector, such as individuals from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.

This position offers the right candidate an exceptional opportunity to develop their legal skills and knowledge working with ATLEU’s dynamic legal team.

Further information and an Application Pack can be found here: http://atleu.org.uk/job-vacancies/