Company Description
UK Power Networks is the largest Distribution Network Operator in the UK, providing electricity to around a quarter of the country’s population. The organization owns, maintains, and upgrades regulated electricity distribution networks across London, the South East, and East of England. With a workforce of over 6,000 employees, UK Power Networks supports more than 8.5 million homes, businesses, schools, and hospitals. The company focuses on reliable power delivery, infrastructure resilience, and customer service, offering opportunities to contribute to essential services and long-term energy solutions.
Job Purpose
The main purpose of this full-time position is to work under supervision but responsible for their own case load, to support a newly formed team dealing with the full range of real estate transactions.
Start Date
The ideal candidate will be available to start around 10 August 2026.
Key Responsibilities
Conveyancing
- Advising and keeping instructing officers up to date with the progress of their transaction both via email and telephone contact.
- Ordering Searches on sale and on purchase reviewing same and interpreting results.
- Preparing Report on Title
- Undertaking, reviewing and reporting on search results, title investigation and negotiated documents
- Drafting and negotiating a range of documents including lease renewals, new leases, licences, freehold sales and acquisitions and surrenders.
- Drafting outside of precedent
- Regular client contact both transactional and relationship management
- Running transactions and files independently
Case Management
- Opening and closing files.
- Effective monitoring and scrutiny of files ensuring timescales are met and that paperwork is processed, filed and kept up-to-date.
Communications and Relationships
- Excellent internal personal and communication skills are required as this role has extensive communication with clients (primarily on the telephone)
Most Challenging part of Job
- Working under pressure to support solicitors in a busy department.
- Requires ability to prioritise and working to tight deadlines.
- Requires strong organisational skills with attention to detail.
Skills and Experience
- The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of previous experience in a Real Estate Paralegal role and will be able to work largely independently. You will require strong technical skills as there will be some drafting outside of precedent.
- Flexibility of working hours and discretion are essential.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Adaptable and flexible with ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
- Ability to prioritise heavy workload within tight time constraints under pressure.
- A pro-active approach is essential.
- The person appointed will enjoy working as a team player, be effective at working on their own initiative and be used to meeting strict deadlines and prioritising workloads.
- A high level of organisation, influencing and communication skills is essential.
- IT Skills: Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP and advanced in Microsoft Word. Extracting information from the internet with confidence and speed is also essential in this role.
- The person appointed should have a cheerful disposition and be able to deal constructively with demanding clients from across the business.
- Normal working hours are 09:00 to 17:30 with an hour for lunch.
UK Power Networks is committed to a policy of equality in its employment practices and values a workforce that is representative of the customers we serve and the communities in which we work. We consider our people to be crucial to achieving success. We believe that it is important for our employees to strike a sensible balance between work and life outside work and will consider requests for working arrangements under the Work-Life Solutions process. Full details of the Equal Opportunities Policy and Work-Life Solutions can be found on the Human Resources intranet site.
Pay: £30,000.00-£39,000.00 per year
Application question(s):
- Have you completed the LPC or SQE 1 and/or SQE2? (Not essential)
Experience:
- property paralegal: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London SE1 6NP
