Job title: Legal Team Leader - Housing
Job type: Permanent
Emp type: Full-time
Industry: Property and Housing
Salary from: GBP £37,000.00
Salary to: GBP £39,000.00
Location: Worcester
Job published: 08/09/2025
Job ID: 35375

Job Description

LEGAL TEAM LEADER - HOUSING

WORCESTER, HYBRID

£37,000-£39,000

 

Our client is looking for a Legal Team Leader to join their Housing Litigation team. You’ll be joining an established team that run pre-action and litigated claims including housing conditions, disrepair, possession, and injunctions.

 

BENEFITS

This opportunity comes with a range of benefits, including: 25 days annual leave (rising to a max of 30 days), a pension scheme, health and well-being plans, discounted products and services, counselling, family-friendly arrangements, tax efficient benefits and generous annual leave.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Legal Team Leader you will:

 

  • Provide legal services to operational teams including high quality, accurate and timely legal advice and support to ensure that corporate compliance is maintained            
  • Effectively manage, develop and support a small team to ensure SLAs and customer expectations are met
  • Assist in managing external providers, including spend and invoice management, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and organisations financial procedures
  • Ensure that legal services are delivered in a cost-effective way that limit risk to the Group
  • Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, identifying any shortfalls in service and ensuring corrective actions are carried out
  • Monitor corporate compliance, reviewing and updating relevant policies and procedures to ensure continued compliance with legal and regulatory requirements

 

REQUIREMENTS

As a Legal Team Leader you will bring:

 

  • Recent experience undertaking a similar role, ideally within housing association or local authority                                             
  • Have excellent knowledge of housing law and the civil procedure rules, including disrepair
  • Proven experience of working to deadlines and prioritising workloads                                          
  • A soliton focussed approach with experience of analysing and diagnosing problems and implementing solutions                                           
  • Proven experience of advising senior managers and staff on legal issues                                       
  • Experience of managing a team

 

 

If you are interested in the Legal Team Leader apply with you CV today! Our team will review your application to see if it’s a match and get in touch to learn more about you. If you aren't contacted within 7 days, please assume your application was not selected.

 

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