Senior Legal Assistant - Adult Social Care
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Bootle, L20 3DLView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£33,673 to £37,563
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time
Closing date
29 October 2026
10 days leftJob description
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Please apply online via the link provided.
Please note, we do not accept CV’s (unless specified on the advert).
Please fully complete the online application form.
A Senior Legal Assistant is required to assist the lawyers in the adult social care team in the Sefton Legal Services Department. The successful applicant will have relevant legal qualifications and/or experience in a legal team dealing with social care matters.
What will you be doing?
We are looking for a Senior Legal Assistant to join our in-house Adult Social Care legal team. The role will require you to support the provision of legal services to the client department including:
- Attend meetings, courts, tribunals or other forums to take notes or transcripts of proceedings
- Case management and bundling – to include assembling bundles, indexing and paginating digital and where necessary physical court bundles for hearings
- Provide support to lawyers when issuing applications, obtaining and organising documentation to meet the requests of the court
- File documentation within proceedings
- Ensure effective diary management to ensure that court directions and other deadlines are complied with in a timely manner
- Plan and prioritise allocated work efficiently
- Provide support to other teams if requested to do so
- Be flexible with regards to working hours to ensure that service needs and client requirements are met
- Carry out such other tasks as may reasonably be required.
The closing date for this vacancy is Thursday 29th October 2026 (or earlier in the event
of high volume of applications being received).
Provisional interview date: Thursday 5th November 2026
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
LG Jobs
First seen
20 October 2026
Last checked
20 October 2026
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