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Deadline: 5pm, Monday 17 March 20251 Year Fixed TermHours: 35 hours per week (28 considered)We are looking for a dedicated Employment and Welfare Rights Paralegal to join our team and help support local residents facing employment and welfare benefits challenges.This role is more than just legal support—it’s about empowering individuals, ensuring fairness, and helping people access the rights and benefits they deserve. Our employment solicitor and welfare rights supervisor provide vital casework and expert guidance to those in need, as well as supporting local voluntary sector organisations through second-tier advice.As a key member of our team, you will play an essential role in fighting for workers’ rights, tackling discrimination, and ensuring vulnerable individuals receive the support they are entitled to. Your work will have a tangible impact on people’s lives, helping them secure fair treatment, financial stability, and peace of mind.What You’ll Be Doing:<ul><li>Supporting the work of the Employment, Discrimination, and Education Supervisor, assisting with casework, research, and client interviews.</li><li>Assisting the Welfare Rights Supervisor in ensuring individuals receive the benefits and financial assistance they are entitled to.</li><li>Developing your expertise to progress into managing your own caseload and contributing to second-tier advice delivery.</li></ul>&nbsp;Why Join Us?This is an exceptional opportunity for someone with a strong sense of social justice who wants to build a career in employment law and welfare rights. You will gain hands-on experience, professional mentorship, and opportunities for career progression while making a direct and lasting impact on your community.If you are committed to fairness, equality, and ensuring that no one is left behind, we want to hear from you.The post will be based at our office in Camberwell with some outreach and attendance at evening meetings. SLC has adopted an agile working policy and encourage staff to work partly from home.Southwark Law Centre has an Equality Diversity and Inclusion policy. We welcome applications from candidates who meet the person spec regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex (gender) and sexual orientation.Starting salary and relevant experienceThe Law Centre criteria for starting salaries aims to ensure that all relevant experience is recognised for all posts within clearly justifiable limits so that starting salary does not unfairly reward on the basis of age. Experience is only relevant for these purposes if it is equivalent to the role on offer. The post holder salary increases by 1 point each year until the top of the scale is reached within NJC payscales. In addition the Law Centre pays cost of living increases agreed nationally by the NJC.Relevant experience 1-2 years SP9 £31,884Relevant experience 2-5 years SP11 £32,817Relevant experience 5 years + SP13 £33,780Closing date for applications: 5pm, Monday 17 March 2025Interviews: Tuesday 25 March 2025To download the application pack, click Apply

Paralegal (FTC) - Employment and Welfare Rights - Southwark Law Centre

Flex Legal was originally conceived as a platform for law graduates to find fixed-term paralegal work. Law firms and legal teams would come to us with their workload challenges, and we would find the perfect paralegal to help solve them. Our organisation has changed a lot since then (we now also place lawyers and trainees), but facilitating paralegal placements remains the heart of our business.If you’re a seasoned paralegal looking to explore new legal practice areas, or a recent law graduate hoping to build that initial bit of legal work experience, Flex Legal is here to help you! This page is full of information to help your application.How the process works1. Apply Fill out an application form and submit your CV. Then, undergo a basic competency test and interview with our team.2. Build your Profile Create a legal profile on our platform, that we can show to our clients when they need support.3. Work When we find a suitable role, we’ll check your interest via text or email. If you're successful at interview, great! You’ll start and be paid fortnightly.As one of the UK’s foremost legal work organisations, we receive hundreds of applications to join our platform every week. Flex is committed to helping as many paralegals as possible find work opportunities – but can only accept your application to the platform if we are confident that we will be able to place you.For paralegal applicants:<ul><li>A UK-specific legal qualification such as an LLB or GDL is required as an absolute minimum.</li><li>Prior experience in a legal or administrative role is an advantage.</li></ul>We would also ask that paralegal CVs:<ul><li>Are no longer than 2 pages in length.</li><li>List your education from most recent to least recent.</li><li>List your work experience from most recent to least recent.</li><li>Do not include photos or headshots.</li><li>Use “professional” fonts such as Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman.</li></ul>Once you've built a profile on our platform, we will pass suitable roles over to you as and when they come to us - which you can accept or reject with no commitment required. Here's what our platform offers you:<ul><li>A digital CV and profile video that you can customise at any time, and is visible to potential clients.</li><li>A digital availability calendar you control.</li><li>Text and email notifications for new paralegal roles.</li><li>Fortnightly pay.</li><li>Access to our SQE journal, where you can record Qualifying Work Experience towards your SQE qualification.</li><li>Access to our supportive and helpful team of Client Services Associates, who help you find the roles you want.</li></ul>

Paralegal - various - Flex Legal

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