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About the Role
Our Legal Officers play a critical role in helping deliver justice by supporting the effective administration of Tribunals business. This role offers the opportunity to make informed decisions on processing appeals, ensuring better access to justice.
Responsibilities
- Undertake a range of complex case work and assessment activity to determine how best to advance caseloads and remove barriers to case progression.
- Make informed decisions on how best to process appeals.
- Make case management decisions as part of delegated judicial powers.
- Liaise with key stakeholders and HMCTS colleagues to ensure the effective administration of justice.
- Occasional travel to other sites may be required.
Requirements
- A law degree or equivalent technical experience is desirable.
- Demonstrate a transferable decision-making aptitude, working within a set framework or guidance and previous precedents, under supervision.
- Ability to communicate with multiple levels of stakeholders, internal and external to the Tribunal, using varying communication methods and adapting communication to the audience.
- Understand the importance of impartial decision making.
- Ability to understand a wide range of information at pace.
- Must have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom.
- DBS Basic check required.
Skills
- Confident communicator
- Decision maker
Location
- Taylor House, 88 Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4QU
- London
Work Type
- Office-based
- Full Time
- Part Time
- Job Share
- Flexible Working
Experience Level
- HEO (Higher Executive Officer) grade
Education Level
- Law degree or equivalent technical experience is desirable.
Salary/Compensations
- £40,014 - £42,859
Benefits
- Annual leave is 25 days on appointment, increasing to 30 days after five years’ service.
- Scheme to buy or sell up to three days leave each year.
- Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day.
- Civil Service pension schemes.
- Extensive range of training and development opportunities.
- Opportunity to join employee-run networks.
- Range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts.
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.
About the Company
- Part of HMCTS, the Tribunals Directorate is responsible for the effective administration of Tribunals in England and Wales and non-devolved Tribunals in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- We work with an independent judiciary across a wide range of jurisdictions to provide a fair, efficient and effective justice system.
- The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows.
- All employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
- The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
- The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace.
- The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
- The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria.
- MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.