Main Responsibilities of the Role
- Report directly to Department Director
- Responsible for all aspects of Housing work and on occasions, where appropriate providing technical expertise and guidance to other team members
- Ability to manage appropriate caseload types and complexities
- Assisting with a diverse caseload of public and private housing matters, such as:
- Homelessness applications and appeals
- Disrepair claims
- Eviction and possession proceedings
- Property ownership disputes
- Unlawful eviction cases
- Succession rights for tenants
- Neighbourhood and anti-social behaviour issues
- Conducting your own advocacy where appropriate
- Attending clients, taking instructions and preparing cases
- Dealing with correspondence
- Maintaining accurate time costing procedures
- Implementing any recommendations made by your supervisor following monthly file reviews ensuring that these are dealt with promptly
- Ensuring compliance with file management
Key Skills Required
- Must have a clean, valid Practising Certificate at the time of applying
- Strong management skills
- Committed team player with ability to approach team concerns fairly, foster culture of positive change and encourage cross referrals
- Previous proven supervisory experience and working to key performance indicators
- Professional with a pro‑active approach; excellent client care skills and ability to deal with vulnerable client matters in a sensitive manner and resolve complicated practicalities involved in Housing issues
- Excellent networking and communication skills with the ability to successfully market the Company and generate new business
- Excellent analytical and organisational skills
- Ability to use own initiative and sound judgment
- Working knowledge of the publicly funded Housing work including legal representation and legal help and have the ability to service privately funded cases
- Have extensive experience in dealing with all Housing related work
- Experience in own advocacy is an advantage
- Excellent IT Skills – familiar with Microsoft Office applications and document management skills
What we offer
- A fantastic supportive team
- Strong career progression with support for legal awards and professional recognition
- Attractive salary package with supervision bonus
Equal Opportunities
Duncan Lewis is committed to Equal Opportunities and embraces diversity of its staff. The Company strives to ensure that our staff reflects the diversity of the communities we serve, which is reflective at all levels within our workforce.
We guarantee an interview for candidates that disclose a disability and meet the essential requirements for the post. Please provide additional details in your covering letter if this applies.
Salary Structure – Housing
SALARY STRUCTURE – HOUSING SALARY
(London)
(Outside London)
NQ + * £48,000 £46,500 1 Year PQE + * £50,000 £48,500 2 Years PQE + * £52,000 £50,000 3 Years PQE + * £57,000 £55,000 5 Years Plus PQE + * Negotiable Negotiable Supervision Bonus up to * + up to £8,000 up to £7,400 * Terms and Conditions apply. Supervisor Bonus Per Annum:- Supervise 1 Paralegal £1,250 £1,150 Supervise 2 Paralegals £1,750 £1,600 Supervise 3 Paralegals £2,250 £2,100 Supervise 4 Paralegals £2,750 £2,550 Total £8,000 £7,400
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