Job Description

Job Title: Legal Administrator
Location: Northampton, NN4
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Legal Administrator and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
We're one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders -- FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.
At Persimmon, we don't just build homes -- we build careers. When you join us as a Legal Administrator, you'll benefit from:

• 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Employee Benefits Platform - giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

What is the role?
This is an exciting opportunity for a Legal Administrator to join the Legal Team. Reporting to the Company Solicitor at the Midlands office the position will involve assisting the Plot team.
What you'll do as a Legal Administrator

• Dealing with registration of notices of assignment, charge etc.
• Dealing with requests for permission to make alterations as required (consents)
• Preparing engrossments for affordable housing and investor contracts
• Completing forms (land registry, SDLT and alike)
• Handling general organisational and administrative tasks for the legal department
• Archiving for the plots team, both physical copies and on tikit
• Dealing with miscellaneous/historic legal queries such as obtaining a copy of a section agreement or title information
• Assisting the plots team with reservations and/or ID checks where required
• Ordering office supplies, stationery, furniture etc. if required
• Opening, sorting and distributing post
• Assisting with general enquiries from regions and former customers
• Preparing and coordinating periodic reports as required
• Organising travel and accommodation as required
• Covering annual leave of other Plot Administrators
• Taking minutes at meetings as required
• Reception cover as required

What experience do I need?

• A minimum of 5 GCSEs (including a grade C in English and Maths) or equivalent
• Experience and competence in:

• General administration, to include compliance tasks as required.
• Producing documents efficiently and accurately under direction of the team.
• Document management, including proficiency in using Word, Power Point and Excel along with typing, formatting and editing PDF documents.
• Diary management, ideally including travel and event booking.
• Confident communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Attention to detail.
• Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively
• Good time management and organisational skills, and escalating when required.
• Willing to continually learn and adapt to new procedures.
• Ability to be proactive, take initiative and self-motivate.
• Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines while remaining calm.
• Ability to demonstrate discretion to maintain absolute confidentiality at all times

Skills Required