Deadline: 13th April 2025
Permanent (inc. 30 month Level 7 Apprenticeship Programme)
£29,000 + Pension + Bonus + AXA + ShareSave Scheme + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working + Paid Study Leave
Southampton / Hybrid (2-3 days per week at the office).
We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Trainee Solicitor – Legal Apprentice and you’ll be a big part of this.
PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE AN IN PERSON ASSESSMENT ON 15TH MAY 2025.
Required skills & experience
We are looking for a driven individual to join B&Q, the UK’s leading home improvement retailer, part of the Kingfisher group. You’ll be joining a fast paced, exciting legal team with a fantastic opportunity of future career development.
Our Legal apprenticeship scheme is a 30-month programme, to support gaining a professional legal qualification (SQE). Alongside this, you will gain relevant work experience and essential skills & behaviours training. There will be plenty of support along the way in the shape of your development from your peer group, line manager and mentor.
You will develop skills in areas such as:
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts
- Providing pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice
- Taking instructions and communicating with a variety of stakeholders
- Supporting senior managers and team members with high profile work
- Collaborating with and supporting internal legal team
- Legal research and analytical skills
- Time management skills and prioritisation
- Critical thinking and problem solving
What we need?
- Individual with an English law degree or equivalent
- Self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced business environment
- Ambition to learn, grow and develop
- Ability to adapt, be flexible and embrace change
- Strong communication and organisation skills
- Team player - builds strong relationships with peers and stakeholders
- Ability to produce high quality work under pressure
- Can prioritise effectively - always clear what is important
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy
What's in it for me?
You’ll gain on the job experience in a variety of legal areas, including commercial, company secretarial, data protection, consumer law, regulatory and compliance.
As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.
We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!
So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.
About the Apprenticeship course
The Graduate Solicitor Apprenticeship is a 30-month apprenticeship designed for those with a recent English law degree. Training ensures a good understanding of foundational legal principles to prepare for the SQE examinations, with a day release to dedicate to apprenticeship studies. The course provider will supply supported study materials aligned to the SQE specification to enable Graduate Solicitor Apprentices to revise and refresh their knowledge of these underlying areas of law.
Please be aware that this vacancy will be open to applications until 13th April 2025. Due to the high volume of interest that we anticipate, we'll be in touch to update on the outcome of your application after this date. We also reserve the right to close the adverts ahead of this time.
We're ideally looking for the successful candidate to join us on Monday 28th July 2025.
