Job Description

Your new role
We're looking for a qualified legal adviser to undertake the role of Housing Management Lawyer within our Legal team. This is a twelve month fixed term role.
You'll be a high-achieving individual, capable of managing your own caseload and making decisions to support our day to day operations. You'lll work alongside the Head of Legal and provide housing management and litigation services, including where appropriate training.
You'll be a qualified housing solicitor, barrister or chartered legal executive with up to 5 years PQE and have expert level experience of providing advice and interpreting legal issues in relation to the housing sector and be specialist in this area of legal practice.
We're looking for someone who is confident, with sound judgement and able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
You'll be working either from our Eastleigh office (SO50 6AD), Bracknell office (RG12 1RF) or our Yeovil office (BA22 8WN) a minimum of three days per week to connect and collaborate with colleagues and the other two days can be worked from at a place of your choosing whether that's at another of our offices, a cafe or at home.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is self-motivated and looking for a new challenge to work in a varied role. You will work alongside and support other legal professionals as part of new team and you will lead the housing management practice, working on complex housing related matters, including but not limited to, anti-social behaviour, housing management, disrepair, leasehold management and income management.
The role is at the heart of the business, offering advice and guidance in a hardworking and fast-paced environment. You will be expected to be a team player, willing to contribute to challenges and questions, as well as play your part in adding value and improving the services we provide.
If you feel you have the experience, skills and attitude, we want to hear from you.
Interviews will take place on between 13 October 2025 - 20 October 2025.
Who we are
Abri is a large housing provider who own and manage more than 58,000 homes and various community assets, serving around 113,000 customers across the South of England.
We believe everyone has the right to a good quality safe, warm and sustainable home in a community where they can belong, grow and thrive. What does that look like in real terms?
We're investing 689m over the next ten years in our existing homes to improve building safety and make them more energy efficient.

• We're delivering 10,000 homes by 2030, ensuring affordable housing is built where it's needed most
• We're investing in our communities, to address local issues and create opportunities for everyone

As we grow, we're re-establishing our strong local presence to provide a really good service. Abri has adopted a regional approach to service delivery, with our operating areas split into three, each with their local governance and leadership. This will ensure our colleagues are more visible, accountable and better connected to our customers and local communities to meet their diverse needs.
More information about Abri and our strategic objectives can be found at .
What you can expect
What you can expect
28 days holiday + the opportunity to buy and sell holiday
Generous pension scheme with contributions up to 10%
Money off tons of high street and online retailers
Life assurance of 5x your annual salary
Generous parental and family leave
Health and wellbeing packages
Flexible working
Free eye tests
Cycle to Work scheme
About you
We've all got different backgrounds, strengths and experiences. But we share the same values. It's these shared values that bring us together as one team.
Our colleagues embrace these every day. Be the difference to our customers and colleagues, always curious and look for better solutions, achieve together by working in partnership with others, own it openly through working with others in an open and honest way, and finally embrace possibility and see changes and challenges as welcomed opportunities.
We also expect our colleagues to share Abri's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults.
If you share our values and want to make a real difference in the world, you're on to a winner and we'd love to hear from you!
Be yourself
We're committed to promoting an inclusive culture. We welcome and respect the individual differences, life experiences and knowledge that all our colleagues bring into the workplace, and we value their contribution to our amazing company. Everyone is different, everyone is unique.
Flexible working
We recognise the benefits flexible working can bring and we aim to support colleagues who need to work flexibly wherever we can, provided the needs of both Abri and the colleague can be met. Please feel free to let us know about any flexibility you might need when applying for this role. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to consider it fully.
To our agency friends
We already have a number of carefully selected agency partners who know our business well and who support our in-house recruitment team during exceptionally busy periods. We're not looking to add to our preferred supplier list right now but if you'd like to be considered at a future date please don't hesitate to register on our procurement portal.

Skills Required