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26.121 EO Legal Administrative Assistant
Disclosure & Barring Service —Liverpool
- £30,993 a year
- Temporary
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Travel
- Organisational skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme

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26.121 EO Legal Administrative Assistant

Disclosure & Barring Service -
Liverpool

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Job details

Temporary | Part-time | Full-time
£30,993 a year

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

Stakeholder liaison
Presentation skills
Legal research
Organisational skills
Communication skills

Full job description

Details

Reference number

475880

Salary

£30,993 - £30,993

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Executive Officer

Contract type

Temporary

Length of employment

This role is a temporary appointment available until the return of the substantive post holder, estimated to be October 2027. There may be potential, but no guarantee, of extension or permanency.

Business area

Legal Services

Type of role

Administration / Corporate Support
Legal Services

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

Number of jobs available

Location
About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
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Location

This role is available on a remote, hybrid, or office basis. Initially, all DBS employees' contracts are office-based at one of our two sites (Liverpool and Darlington). Employees can apply for remote or hybrid work from day one. If approved, the arrangement will start after six months for transfers from Home Office or after completing probation for new joiners. Requests will be considered based on business needs and role requirements. Informal hybrid working arrangements are also available from day one, subject to business needs and role requirements and will be discussed further following any job offer. Please note that this role is largely undertaken remotely.

About the job

Job summary

DBS has its own growing in-house legal team. This currently consists of 27 members of staff, including 13 qualified lawyers (solicitors and a barrister). The team supports DBS across all its key strategic outputs and delivers a full in-house legal service. This broad range of legal work includes the following:

Barring appeals litigation in the Upper Tribunal
Public law matters, including in-house advisory work and judicial review
Civil litigation
Operational and policy advice
GDPR / Data Protection and Freedom of Information matters
Commercial projects and disputes
Corporate governance
Employment matters

If you are ready for a new challenge, have an enthusiastic approach and enjoy working collaboratively with colleagues within the legal team and across the wider organisation, then we would be delighted to hear from you.

Job description

You will be joining the DBS Legal Services Team at an exciting time as it develops and grows. Our objective is to continue building and developing a Legal Team that is recognised and engaged as a crucial partner in the delivery of the DBS functions. You will work collaboratively and proactively with colleagues from various teams, building relationships and confidence in the Legal Services Team. This role will offer you varied, challenging, and rewarding work in a professional and fast-paced environment.

You will provide administrative support to the DBS Legal Services Team, including:

Supporting the lawyers in the Team wherever possible
Collating and reviewing documentation
Drafting basic internal and external correspondence
Assisting with the preparation of instructions to law firms/counsel
Liaising with external advisers
Engaging with DBS colleagues to ensure that advice queries are dealt with in a timely manner
Maintaining and updating the Legal Case Management System, other data bases and spreadsheets
Raising purchase orders and complying with financial processes for the provision of external legal services
Checking invoices and ensuring payment is made in a timely manner
Managing the data retention of files, and the process for the destruction of files
Reviewing the Legal Services Team inbox and ensuring that matters are signposted to allocated lawyers

Work flexibly and undertake such other duties appropriate to the level of the post that may reasonably be required.

Resources

The Job holder will have support from other members of the Legal Services Team

Accountability

The Job holder will report directly to the Legal Support Officer and be supervised by individual lawyers in the Team

Other Information

The role is for a fixed term to cover maternity leave until the end of October 2027.

The role may require occasional travel between the Liverpool and Darlington DBS sites, with the possibility of overnight stays.

Person specification

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

Ability

Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently, with good client care skills
Good written communication skills to the level required for the preparation of legal correspondence
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
Ability to work flexibly
Ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced team
Excellent organisational skills

Experience

A background in providing support in a legal environment
Experience of using all Microsoft Office packages, particularly Excel

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

Ability

Ability to conduct legal research

Experience

Experience of working with a legal case management system

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Managing a Quality Service
Seeing the Big Picture
Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £30,993, Disclosure & Barring Service contributes £8,978 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

The DBS offers a number of excellent benefits for its employees. These can include:

Generous annual leave entitlement
Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption schemes (after a qualifying period)
Commitment to the health and wellbeing of our employees
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible working opportunities
Eyecare voucher scheme
Occupational Health Service including referrals for counselling and physiotherapy
24/7 Counselling and Wellbeing Service
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

The DBS vision and purpose is to make people safer by being a visible, trusted and influential organisation, providing an outstanding quality of service to all our customers and partners, where our people understand the important safeguarding contributions they make and feel proud to work here. To do this, the DBS is committed to being an employer that is able to attract, develop, retain and engage diverse talent that is representative of the communities we serve, and to be an organisation providing outstanding service to all our existing and new customers, who are diverse and have a range of different needs. We want all our staff to be able to bring their whole self to work.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

To apply for this role, please provide a CV along with a Personal Statement of no more than 500 words, outlining how your skills and experiences meet the requirements of the role. This should include all essential and desirable criteria and the key responsibilities. In addition, you will also be required to provide examples for the following behaviours, Managing a Quality Service, Seeing the Big Picture and Delivering at Pace.

For all candidates who are successful at the initial sifting stage, you will be invited to attend a behaviour based interview process. The interview will be conducted via MS Teams and will be separated into 2 parts:

Part 1: Practical exercise which you will be required to complete under timed supervision. This will be measured against the essential criteria. You will undertake this exercise prior to the interview at Part 2.

Part 2: Behaviour based MS Teams interview. This will be measured against the behaviours Managing a Quality Service, Seeing the Big Picture, and Delivering at Pace.

Probing questions will also be asked against essential criteria.

Advert closing date: 1st September 2026

Interviews will be conducted once the sift has been completed. Should there be a large number of applicants, the sift will initially be conducted on the C.V, Personal Statement and the lead behaviour, Managing a Quality Service.

Whilst we will endeavour to provide some flexibility with regard to dates wherever possible. It is unlikely that we will be able to offer an alternative date once an appointment has been scheduled.

Further Information:

To view the DBS Recruitment and On-boarding Privacy Notice, please click the link below:

DBS Recruitment and On-boarding Privacy Notice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

This privacy notice covers personal data collected during the recruitment, security clearance and on-boarding process.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : People Support Team
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