Legal Disrepair Business Support Officer

The role requires someone with relevant experience and who is qualified or working towards a relevant qualification and who has the business acumen to motivate other members within the internal legal disrepair team and more widely within the group to provide support to other colleagues within the business.

The Legal Disrepair Business Support Officer will undertake multi complex legal administrative & operational duties, research & development and be able to use data analytical tools. In addition to providing support for the case handlers.

Importantly this role requires someone with the natural flair & ability to influence the decision-making process and who can support the legal disrepair team.

What will my working week look like?

You will be a regional worker, living within the Northwest, within a reasonable travelling distance of our Head Office in Warrington.

You will attend regular team meetings and training courses and both our regional head offices and other regional offices as and when required.

What will I be responsible for doing?

First and foremost, you will administratively case manage and triage all daily email communications for the team in a timely manner and ensure that the case handlers are provided with communication contacts in a swift and timely manner.

You will set up all new claims onto the YHG data base systems, and ensure full responses and disclosures are provided for all new claims within the requisite legislative timescales.

You will allocate disrepair claims, and directly instruct internal YHL colleagues, external surveyors, solicitors, barristers, agencies and organisations as necessary to minimise potential risk & financial loss to the organisation through the effective case management and response to legal disrepair claims

You will have knowledge and proven experience of contract law and litigation enforcement experience and be someone with the ability to work alone but someone who also works well within a team environment.

One of the great things about this role is the opportunity for professional advancement and continual professional development. As well as the variety of challenges you will face as a Legal Disrepair Business Support Officer you will find that no 2 days are ever the same.

You will have a proven record of working independently on your own litigation and / or client case loads without the need for close supervision and you will have excellent legal drafting skills on various Court documents / Injunctions /witness statements.

Case / litigation administrative experience, whether as a claimant or defendant litigator with experience of all general areas of litigation, and in particular Contract law, Housing law, Possession actions.

You will have previous experience and be able to demonstrate key leadership administrative skills whilst dealing with critical developing situations.

You will currently hold a business degree and / or be training towards an equivalent CILEX administrative qualification.

Ideally you will be a well-motivated collaborative team player with the ability to work autonomously and with minimal supervision.

You will have the personal and professional drive and desire to excel in this area of litigation and be able to provide support to other members of the team as and when required

You will have relevant experience of working with claimants whether within legal private practice, local government agencies or within the Social Housing Sector

This role is ideally suited to someone with the skill set, confidence and ability needed to make on the spot critical judgments and someone who can naturally support others in order to achieve successful outcomes.

This role also offers genuine progression opportunities and support to excel both in terms of administration and experience and more widely within the general area of defendant litigation.

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.

As one of the North's sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.

We're an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

In return we offer £30,000 for a 35-hour week, and 25 days (pro-rata) annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee deal offers much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

We trust our people to manage their own diary's, if you need time for an appointment, the school run or an exercise class, as long as it fits within the business needs, we're open to what works for you too. And when you need to collaborate with your team, you can visit Youggle House - our wellbeing, social, collaboration and meeting space, in Birchwood, Warrington.

On top of this, we'll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through BHSF, that doesn't just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.