Use our Launch Pad Apprenticeship Programme to start your legal career

Are you looking for an alternative to university?

Would you like to earn whilst you learn?

Would you like to kick start a great legal career in a bank?

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

OSB Group are offering a rare opportunity to join our Legal team as a Legal Apprentice. This position will give you fantastic insight and experience working across numerous divisions within the Legal department, giving you a wide spectrum of knowledge across multiple disciplines.

You will earn while you learn, completing a Level 3 Paralegal Apprenticeship programme for the first 2 years, with the view to complete an additional 4 years’ study upon completion to ensure you become fully qualified to kick start your career!

On a typical day, you’ll be completing a variety of legal work under supervision relating to Contracts, Savings, Mortgages, Data Protection, Litigation, Corporate and Employment law as required.

This includes:

• Drafting and reviewing basic legal documents and providing advice to business stakeholders.
• Assisting with instructions to external law firms and our panel arrangements.
• Assisting with creating and updating templates and how-to/process guides.
• Helping the Governance team with day-to-day tasks, including supporting committee updates and training activities, and assisting with the preparation of simple monthly reports for internal committees 
• Drafting support documents for business stakeholders, such as court documents for litigation.
• Supporting with ad hoc business projects.
• Assisting in arranging team events and social activities.

• A permanent contract
• A qualification path with the established legal training provider, BPP, supporting you all the way
• A buddy to help you navigate your first steps in your financial services career
• Earn while you learn: a £14,000 starting salary rather than building up debt
• 5% annual performance related discretionary bonus
• A Monday – Friday, 9-5 job (no weekend working!) with one day a week dedicated to study leave
• A great benefits package including 28 days holiday, a bonus scheme and lots of added extras on Perkbox (includes cheap cinema tickets, discount codes for eating out and high street stores and free phone insurance!)

OSB Group is a specialist mortgage lender, supported by our savings brands. Our key purpose is to help customers, colleagues and communities prosper. 

Proud to be listed in The Sunday Times ‘Best 100 Companies to Work For’, we have over 2,000 employees across the UK and India. We’re focused on developing positive relationships in the communities in which we’re based, and over the last two years we’ve donated over half a million pounds to local charity partners. 

Our Apprenticeship Programme is open to all people. In particular, we would love to talk to those of you who are from a diverse and wide range of backgrounds and experiences and we strongly encourage applications from people with a disability, ethnically diverse people, LGBTQ+ people and all gender identities.

We are looking for talented individuals who have the experience and knowledge set out below:

• An inquisitive mind!
• Good communication skills and a willingness to learn the department from the ground up
• Determination to learn and develop new skills, with the long-term aim to progress
• Minimum GSCE’s (Grade 4/ C or above) in Mathematics and English
• Three A-Levels (or equivalent qualification) equivalent to 120 UCAS points are essential.
• Right to work in the UK
• (You cannot apply if you have an existing qualification in the apprentice area you wish to apply for)

• APPLY – please complete the simple questions via our online portal, helping us understand why you’re interested and in what area of the business
• We will be aiming for a start date of September but are happy to have a conversation should this not be suitable.

If you are considering a career within Financial Services please click the ‘Apply’ button to send us your CV or if you’d like to talk to us first, please email at recruitment@osb.co.uk stating “Launch Pad” in your subject heading and we will be in touch.