Paralegal, Temporary

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title:
  
  Paralegal
• Job Location:
  
  Shire Hall, Block 2, 1st Floor
• Salary: £17.86 - £19.39 per hour
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type:
  Temporary
• Duration: 6 months
• Closing Date: 30/01/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 13121

About The Team & Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Litigation and Education Paralegal to join our Legal Services Litigation Team. The work you will be carrying out will not only be invaluable to Legal Services but also pivotal to all Service Areas in Gloucestershire County Council. Your work will vary from providing support and assistance to the Litigation and Education Lawyers to holding and managing your own caseload of legal cases including advocating in court.

In return you will part of a legal team that actively encourages career development opportunities should that be something of interest or importance to you.

Please do apply if this resonates and you are happy to:

About You

As we are dealing with court deadlines, we need you to have excellent organisational and time management skills to allow you to prioritise workloads, some of which can be conflicting priorities. We also need you to be able to work well under pressure. You will need to be flexible and able to adapt from one area of law to another and also have excellent communication skills to be able to advocate at court and in Exclusion Review Hearings as well as build excellent client relationships.

About Us

Alongside the variety of interesting work, the following great benefits are open to you:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities – a mixture of both remote and office working arrangements are available for this role.

Additional Information

This role is via the Temporary Staff Service, please  Temporary Staff Service for more information.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.