Senior Solicitor/Legal Executive

Title: Senior Solicitor/Legal Executive

Salary: 70,104 - 77,893 (dependent on location and experience)

Location: Nottingham-NG9 1LA or London-EC1N 8JS

Permanent Role - Full-Time Position based on a 37.5hr working week

Hybrid role ? 3 days in the office

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK?s leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1900 colleagues to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, East Midlands, Southern and the East of England. We are a proud member of the National Housing Federation the G15 ? which represents London?s largest housing associations ? we influence policy for the benefits of our residents and the wider sector.

We?re on the look out for a confident and pro-active Senior Solicitor/Legal Executive with proven experience of managing and coaching a high performing team of lawyers. You will be responsible for overseeing and conducting housing management and leasehold cases and providing strategic and consistent legal advice to support MTVH?s business objectives.

This is an opportunity to lead a team of lawyers who are passionate about social housing law in an environment where your ideas are valued and where you could help shape the future of the Legal Services provision within the organisation.

The role

The key responsibilities for the role are:

• To lead an efficient and high performing team of Solicitors/Legal Executives to support all functions of the Legal Services Team
• To mentor, coach and develop colleagues to deliver a cohesive, high performing department, providing a consistent service of the highest standards to protect the interests of MTVH
• To monitor and ensure accurate reporting on compliance with KPI?s and SLA standards, make recommendations on best practice to the Head of Legal Services and work collaboratively and cross-functionally to implement service/process improvements
• To prepare and deliver effective training as required on a variety of housing management, leasehold and property law issues to colleagues

What you'll need to succeed

• Admission as a Solicitor in England & Wales or a Fellow of The Institute of Legal Executives (FILEX).
• Substantial post qualification experience (a minimum of 7 years PQE) in housing law acting on behalf of social landlords and tenants gained in private practice, local authority or in-house RP legal team.
• Detailed knowledge of housing and leasehold legislation, case law, litigation practice and procedure and managing complex legal cases.
• Experience in managing and coaching a high performing team and the ability to create a learning culture where knowledge and best practice is shared.
• Proven experience in building and sustaining working relationships with key stakeholders and partners both internal and external.
• Familiar with the regulatory environment affecting registered providers including, data protection laws and housing standards.

What you need to do now:

If you have been successful in your application we will contact you during the week commencing 3rd March 2025 to formally invite you to attend an interview on one of the dates given below.

The in-person interview will consist of 45 minutes of competency based questions with an interview panel of 2 people, a 15 minute presentation which will be sent to you in advance and at the time of the formal invitation to interview followed by a 45 minute written exercise.

Expected Interview Timeline

18th March 2025 - In-person Interviews, presentation and written exercise in Farringdon, London

20th March 2025 - In-person Interviews, presentation and written exercise in Farringdon, London

21st March 2025 - In-person Interviews, presentation and written exercise in Beeston, Nottingham

Note: the presentation brief will be sent at the time of invite to the in-person interview to allow time for preparation. The written exercise will be set blind at the interview.

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What?s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.