Legal Administrator
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
