Junior Paralegal
What you’ll be doing
As Optivo’s Junior Paralegal, you’ll have a fantastic opportunity to manage your own caseload of property transactions for Optivo and its Group partners.
You’ll undertake residential conveyancing from instruction to completion including the preparation of property related transactional documents from precedents. And you’ll be able to assist the Property and Contracts Lawyers as required.
This role requires you to build and maintain effective working relationships with staff, external contacts and partners. There are opportunities to take on the wide variety of work that an organisation the size of Optivo offers under the supervision of experienced solicitors and within a friendly and supportive team.
What you’ll need
You’ll ideally have a Law degree, or equivalent level of legal training. Excellent IT skills, in particular Microsoft Office suite and Outlook. With the ability to present information in a variety of forms to a high standard.
You’ll consistently strive to learn and develop, you will seek feedback to help improve your knowledge and skills. Along with the passion for providing good service consistently to ensure that the client is satisfied with the results.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 21st April 2021 at midnight
Shortlisting will take place on Monday 26th April 2021
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams video link and will take place the week commencing the 10th May 2021
Please ensure you complete your application in full as Hiring Managers will not have visibility of your CV upon application.
What’s in it for you?
You’ll enjoy a great salary and benefits package, including 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a day off for your birthday. You can also buy and sell leave up to 5 days. We have generous pension and life assurance schemes too, plus a cycle to work scheme and travel loans. Add in a healthcare cash plan covering dental, glasses, physiotherapy, vaccinations, 24 hour GP and more, plus various high street discounts, (not to mention flexible working and in house career development opportunities). If you are passionate about what you do and share our ambitions, we look forward to hearing from you.
Inclusion and Diversity
At Optivo we work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual. We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.