Paralegal - PIB Group : Job Details

ParalegalAttention!!!  Are you motivated by training and progression in your role?We have an excellent opportunity to join our growing Legal team in the UK’s largest tenant referencing and specialist lettings insurance company.With over 30 years of experience to our name, we’re the leading go-to experts for the lettings industry.  We provide fast, accurate and reliable tenant references to landlords and letting agents, helping them get the very best tenants for their properties. In fact, we've referenced more than a million tenants over the last three years.What will I be doing?Job Purpose: Responsible for your own portfolio of clients ensuring they receive a market leading service with the customer at the heart of everything you do. You will be helping landlords and their letting agents obtain possession of their rental properties and recover any money outstanding from their tenants.Key Responsibilities:

• Draft and serve possession notices on tenants renting in England and Wales.
• Draft claim forms and particulars of claim for possession and debt matters. Sending them to court for issue.
• Prepare bundles for court hearings, liaising with your client and the agent attending court to ensure they have everything they need.
• Support the wider team with the handling of defended litigation, by liaising with clients and their policy holders as to the prospects of success in a case, or the risks associated with it.
• Manage inbound post on your client’s matter ensuring all directions of the court and legislative timescales are met.
• Adhere to all policies, standard operating procedures, regulatory and business service level agreements and undertake any other reasonable requests.

Further informationAs well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits -

• Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
• Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
• Company pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave packages
• A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
• Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
• Referral schemes
• Discounted rates on PIB products
• We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
• If supporting the local community, engaging with charities and having the opportunity to ‘give something back’ interests you, you have the opportunity to take an extra day to support this with a Volunteering day.
• We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass – giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
• PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development
• Being a part of our PIB Community Trust, we support fundraising where you can apply for grants from PIB Group towards your chosen charity
• PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB’s carbon footprint.

We are proud of our success and growth and have been recognised for many industry awards across our business.  If you wish to work for a company that truly puts people at the heart of their organisation, then we would love to hear from you.  PIB operates a flexible working policy, and our management teams will talk to you about how that would meet both your flexible working needs and those of the business and role you are applying for. We would love to hear from you if you want to hear more about opportunities in PIB.We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.REF-219 981