Henry Boot
Paralegal
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Henry Boot is one of the UK’s leading land, property development and home building businesses, renowned for transforming land and spaces.
Founded in Sheffield in 1886, Henry Boot was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1919. Today, our reputation is built on quality, expertise, delivery and a partnership approach. We focus on three long-term growth markets: residential, industrial and logistics, and urban development. Our group of businesses consists of Banner Plant, Hallam Land, HBD, Road Link and Stonebridge. Together, we are where great places start.
We're looking for a Paralegal to join our Legal Team and play a key role in supporting legal activity across our diverse group of businesses, including Hallam Land, HBD, Stonebridge and Banner Plant.
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive legal professional who enjoys variety, thrives in a collaborative environment and wants to gain exposure to a broad range of commercial, construction and property matters.
The opportunity
As a Paralegal, you'll work closely with the Head of Legal and wider legal team, providing practical, business-focused legal support across the Group. From drafting and reviewing contracts to conducting legal research and supporting governance and compliance activities, you'll be at the heart of helping the business make informed decisions and manage risk effectively.
You'll build strong relationships with stakeholders across the organisation, gaining valuable insight into how legal services support commercial objectives while contributing to projects that make a real impact.
What you'll be doing
You'll be involved in a wide range of legal and administrative activities, including:
- Drafting and negotiating commercial, construction and real estate documentation.
- Supporting lawyers on a variety of legal matters across the business.
- Undertaking legal and regulatory research.
- Assisting with governance, compliance and policy development.
- Preparing reports, legal documents, correspondence and presentations.
- Coordinating document execution and maintaining accurate records.
- Building effective working relationships with colleagues and external advisers.
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.
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What we're looking for
We're interested in hearing from candidates who have:
- A recognised legal qualification.
- Experience supporting legal matters such as contracts, property transactions, compliance or governance activities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- The confidence to work independently while collaborating effectively with others.
- A proactive approach to problem solving and continuous improvement.
Experience within a PLC environment or using legal case management systems would be advantageous but is not essential.
Our offer:
We are passionate about our people, and we are committed to your career development with us. You will have full access to our People Development team, and we encourage you to consider your personal development desires. We pride ourselves on fully supporting you in undertaking development and education to achieve your goals and objectives.
We have a competitive and progressive benefits package to help shape and support you inside and outside of work.
- We pay you a competitive salary – we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and gender pay parity;
- We will provide you with access to electric and hybrid vehicle leasing through our salary sacrifice scheme;
- We share our financial success with our bonus scheme;
- We invest in your future with our pension plan provided by AVIVA;
- We protect your loved ones by giving a life assurance benefit based on multiples of salary;
- We support you when you might have health concerns for you or your family with our Digital GP app;
- We will help you manage the balance of work and home with agile working (where possible) and flexibility to ensure that you can be there for those important life events;
- We give you 24 days of annual leave, with the ability to buy additional leave;
- We support a complete business closure between Christmas and New Year, which does not require you to use your annual leave entitlement;
- We give you enhanced pay if you take leave due to becoming a parent; however you become a parent;
- We support your career aspirations; we are committed to personal growth and internal talent development;
- We cover the cost of professional membership fees for recognised bodies such as CIPD, RICS, CIAT, and others, supporting your continued professional development.
- We offer you access to our Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, which includes access to e-bikes;
- We support you when you need external support with our Employee Assistance Programme.
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We put our people first. As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to creating an environment in which we can all be our best and bring our authentic selves to work.
We ensure our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably, should you wish to discuss any adjustments please contact our people team (people@henryboot.co.uk)
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time in advance of the closing date.
We are unable to accept applications from agencies who have not been directly instructed to act on our behalf, this includes communications shared with hiring managers, for more information, see the recruitment agency disclaimer on our Careers home page.
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