Paralegal

Paralegal

  • SCHADS Award Level 4, salary sacrificing available
  • Moreton Bay
  • Fixed-Term, Full-Time/Part-Time until 30 June 2026

Are you an experienced and motivated Paralegal who is driven to support the community, in particular the community legal sector? Do you work with energy, curiosity, professionalism and optimism? Do you want to say goodbye to the burning of the candle on both ends and a hello to a healthy work life balance? Then, we’d love to hear from you.

Working in the not-for-profit space offers the following benefits:

  • No billable targets
  • Salary-sacrifice to optimise your tax benefits
  • Annual leave loading
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance
  • Professional development
  • Training opportunities to advance your legal career and broaden your understanding of community services

About the Team

Encircle Pine Rivers Community Legal Service (EPRCLS) provides free legal advice, information, referrals, and community legal education to people experiencing disadvantage across the Moreton Bay and greater North Brisbane region.

PRCLS operates from Strathpine, Caboolture, Redcliffe, Deception Bay and Kallangur, with outreach services at Bribie Island and the Family Relationship Centre in Strathpine. The service also supports the Domestic and Family Violence Duty Lawyer Service at Pine Rivers Magistrates Court and assists with services at Redcliffe and Sandgate Courthouses.

Encircle Community Services Ltd (Encircle) is the preferred community services provider in the City of Moreton Bay. We are a community-owned and operated organisation offering a range of support services and activities directly to families and individuals living in Moreton Bay and the greater North Brisbane area.

Since 1987, we have been committed to developing programs and services that support the wellbeing of community members, to encourage and enable community participation, and respond to identified community issues and needs.

Encircle operates across six sites including Kallangur, Lawnton, Redcliffe, Strathpine, Caboolture and Kedron. We have 80 staff and approximately 130 volunteers. Our programs and activities demonstrate a wide variety of integrated options for the people in our region.

About this Role

Working across the Moreton Bay Region, you will support a team of solicitors to provide quality legal services to clients in line with funding agreements.

To be successful in this role you will possess the ability to:

  • Possess strong organisational skills with attention to detail.
  • Handle sensitive information with confidentiality and discretion.
  • Provide legal assistance to a team of solicitors with legal document drafting, research, prepare for and provide community legal education.
  • Conduct client interviews to obtain instructions within the scope of relevant rules and regulations.
  • Provide administrative support to the team as required.
  • Coordinate our popular evening walk-in services when rostered.

With a strong focus on collaboration, you will build relationships and strengthen networks as part of a multidisciplinary organisation to provide referral pathways for clients to other Encircle support services or to other agencies within the region, where appropriate.

You will be able to provide evidence of: 

Requirements:

  • Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Legal studies or similar qualifications preferred
  • Client interview skills and experience
  • Legal knowledge and skills necessary to assist solicitors in drafting legal documents, correspondence to clients and research tasks
  • Administrative experience in a legal setting in an advantage
  • Administration experience in a mediation service is an advantage

Key Selection Criteria:

  1. A high degree of professionalism and well-developed interpersonal and verbal skills with a capacity to liaise effectively with clients under stress, to access justice with a calm and helpful personality.
  2. Demonstrated experience in legal knowledge and skills necessary to undertake client instructions and the ability to research points of law.
  3. Demonstrated time and organisational management skills, and ability to prioritise in a fast-paced program environment, within a small team setting.
  4. Experience and skilled in mediation intake processes and party interviews.
  5. Demonstrated high level communication skills, both verbal and written.
  6. Demonstrated understanding of Social Justice principles.
  7. Demonstrated understanding of contemporary challenges, needs, issues and sensibilities of all people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), LGBTIQA+ backgrounds and other vulnerable population groups and the application of Social Justice principles.

To view the full position description for this role, click here.

Encircle is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from a CALD background and people living with a disability.

If you’re ready to be a part of something bigger, we’d love to hear from you!!!

To apply for this position:

  • ensure you meet the qualifications and experience requirements;
  • provide a cover letter (not more than 2 pages) demonstrating your suitability for this role against the key selection criteria; and
  • provide a current resume (3 pages maximum).

If you feel you have the right qualifications, and experience and would like to work in the Community Services space, please apply by submitting your application here via seek.com.au.

For any questions email .

Please note that we will not be accepting applications via employment agencies.

Applications will be reviewed and progressed as received. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply promptly in order to be considered for this exciting position.