Paralegal x 3 – Legal Services

Unison Legal Services is looking for three committed paralegals to join our busy in-house legal team. You will need to be pro‑active and confident, and willing to assist the union’s solicitors with all aspects of their work

UNISON Legal Services covers the provision and management of all of the union’s legal services.

• This includes the internal and external legal provision, covering employment law services, as well as personal injury, criminal and immigration law.
• The team conducts strategically important and often ground‑breaking litigation on behalf of the union and its members: successful cases include the challenge to the imposition of Employment Tribunal fees in the Supreme Court and Lock v British Gas in the ECJ.
• We give internal advice to the union, including on HR policy and staffing matters.
• We also deal with legal complaints, including defending litigation.
• Part of our work covers applications to the CAC and other CAC matters.

Your role as a Paralegal involves supporting the legal team with case management, litigation assistance and legal research. It also entails providing effective secretarial, clerical and administrative assistance.

You will be reporting to the head of legal services or one of our senior legal officers and you will be based at the UNISON Centre in Euston, London.

You will need to be a qualified legal executive or have a law degree or graduate diploma in law. You will also need to have worked in a legal environment, ideally dealing with employment law and/or personal injury law and/or immigration law.

The person

• Excellent communication and administrative skills;
• To be able to work effectively in a team;
• To organise and manage your own workload;
• To be able to work under pressure.

For full requirements of the role please refer to the job description and person specification.

Completed application forms must be received by no later than 5pm on 16 November 2026.

UNISON is the UK’s leading public services trade union, with over 1.3 million members working in the public sector, private, voluntary and community sectors and in the energy services. We employ approximately 1,200 staff, with around 370 at our national centre in Euston in central London and the remainder in our 12 regions across the UK, including Northern Ireland.

UNISON is a dynamic, progressive union, committed to equality. We encourage men and women of all ages, Black and minority ethnic groups, disabled people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to work with us.

Location: UNISON Centre, 130 Euston Road, London NW1 2AY

Contract type: Permanent

Weekly hours: 35

Starting salary: £36,820 per annum, plus £7,170 London Weighting allowance

Job reference: ORD/42, ORD/110, ORD/194

UNISON in numbers

• UNISON has more than 1.3 million members and activists, making us one of Europe’s largest unions
• More than 70% of our members are women
• UNISON is spread over 12 UK regions
• UNISON has more than 1,000 UNISON UK branches

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