Are you an experienced solicitor with a background in Housing Management and a passion for supporting an organisation that makes a real difference in people's lives? Paradigm Housing Group is looking for a Senior Solicitor, a pivotal in-house role offering flexibility, meaningful work, and the opportunity to help shape our legal landscape.
Hours: This is a part-time opportunity, offering 25-28 hours per week with a high degree of flexibility. You can structure your hours across 3 to 5 days per week, as long as they fall within our core hours of 08:30- 17:30. We're open to discussing a schedule that suits your needs, whether it's shorter days spread throughout the week or a condensed schedule over fewer days.
About the role:
As Senior Solicitor, you will deliver high-quality, in-house legal expertise across Paradigm, managing complex cases, advising senior leadership, and helping uphold our strong culture of continuous improvement and risk management. Reporting to the Head of Legal, you'll partner with key stakeholders, including Directors and Heads of Service, providing guidance that supports our strategic goals and safeguards our operations.
In this varied role, you will lead on property litigation matters such as residential landlord/tenant issues, housing management, and anti-social behaviour cases. You'll also contribute to a proactive, high-performing Legal Services team, championing best practices, enhancing our housing management expertise, and helping us achieve value for money in legal operations.
Key Responsibilities:
* Act as a trusted business partner, delivering expert legal services and guidance across the Group.
* Manage an active caseload of contentious housing management matters, including possession action, disrepair and matters relating to property conditions, anti-social behaviour action and Property Litigation disputes.
* Dealing with non-contentious matters such as policy advice.
* Dealing with ad-hoc queries.
* Representing Paradigm in Court and Tribunals as required.
* Support the management of legal risks across the organisation, working with colleagues to develop mitigation strategies and maintain our Legal Risk Register.
* Champion a culture of legal awareness, supporting teams to manage disputes effectively and understand risk management's role in delivering quality services to customers.
* Develop and lead training sessions for colleagues, helping them become intelligent clients when engaging with external legal services.
* Work with the Head of Legal on strategic projects, deputising as needed and drafting well-structured reports on legal matters for senior stakeholders.
* Actively engage in CPD and seek feedback to support your professional growth and enhance our legal team's expertise.
About you:
To succeed in this role, you'll be a qualified Solicitor (minimum 8 years' post-admission experience) or Barrister with expertise in contentious landlord and tenant matters. You'll be confident working independently, adept at managing relationships at all levels, and able to deliver high-quality results under pressure. Your skills in networking, negotiation, and influencing will allow you to support colleagues effectively, and your ability to explain complex legal issues in clear terms will make you a trusted advisor within the organisation.
Key skills and experience:
* Qualified Solicitor of England and Wales with a current practising certificate or Barrister called to the Bar (minimum 8 years post-qualification).
* Proven expertise in housing management, anti-social behaviour, property litigation, including residential landlord/tenant law.
* Comprehensive knowledge of civil procedure rules, residential landlord and tenant law, and contract law.
* Strong networking, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with an ability to communicate clearly across a wide variety of audiences.
* Experience managing relationships with senior leaders, producing high-quality written and verbal reports, and working under pressure to meet deadlines.
* Experience supporting Boards and Committees, ideally in multiple sectors and/or within group structures.
* Knowledge of the social housing, charity/not-for-profit, or property sectors is advantageous.
Further information:
For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email (see below) and we will respond as soon as possible.
As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.
Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.
Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.
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