Legal Assistant

Description

Salary: £27,705 - £32,594 pa

Location: London – Hybrid, 2 days minimum in the office 3 days working from home.

Hours: Full Time

Contract: Fixed-term Contract – 18 months

We have an exciting opportunity for a Legal Assistant to join our team on a fixed term contract. If you offer experience of maintaining legal files and databases, and possess good customer service skills, this is an opportunity to play a key role providing comprehensive support to our In-House Advisory Service at the General Dental Council.

Person Specification:

Experience of maintaining legal files, databases and other records in a legal environment - demonstrating commitment to ensuring quality and accuracy of work, with excellent attention to detail.

Experience of dealing with evidence and preparing trial bundles.

Ability to plan and organise workload, managing own time effectively and suggesting new and more efficient ways of working.

Strong team-working skills and ability to support others.

Good customer service skills with a positive, “can do” attitude to all tasks and challenges set.

Ability to ensure compliance with GDC’s policies and statutory obligations with regard to data protection, equality and diversity, health and safety, and employment.

About us:

Our primary purpose is to protect patient safety and maintain public confidence in dental services. To achieve this, we register qualified dental professionals, set standards for the dental team, investigate complaints about dental professionals' fitness to practise, and work to ensure the quality of dental education.

Our work matters and so do our people. We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion, by recruiting and strengthening our teams with team members from different backgrounds, life experiences and viewpoints. Equality and diversity are not just words, they are what makes our teams strong and able to deliver. We want to be champions of diversity and to have a sense of belonging in the workplace, where everybody has the chance to contribute and to share what is important to them.

Benefits:

The GDC is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, that provides an environment that reflects our values and culture and allows employees to flourish.

To support this we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, including flexible working arrangements from day one and employee networks that aid growth and development.

Some of our benefits include:

27 days holiday (plus statutory) - rising to 30 days after 2 years’ service

Flexitime scheme

Employer pension contributions up to 10%

Buy/Sell annual leave

Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave from 1 years’ service.

Life assurance, income protection plan and enhanced sick leave policy

Staff discounts including eye care contributions and discounted gym membership.

We encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and career development of people from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.

How to apply:

For further details about the role and to apply please click the apply button.

Closing date: 23:59 on 25 August 2025.

As part of your supporting statement, please provide examples of your work experience that align to the role and person specification above, using the STAR format.

We reserve the right to bring this recruitment campaign to an end without notice, and we encourage all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.

Please no agencies unless instructed otherwise

Ad ID: 5416927235