Senior Legal Assistant - Adult Social CareCouncil

About the Role

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

Position type: Full Time