Support and Administrative Vacancies

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Employment Team Administrator to join our Northampton office.

You will be supporting the fee earners in our Employment Team with their administrative, organisational and audio typing tasks. They are a busy and successful Legal 500 recognised team, and they cover a diverse range of work for both employer clients and employees.

Responsibilities:

This is a full and busy role and will include the following:

• Preparing correspondence and documents for the team’s fee earners
• File openings and closures across a range of areas.
• General file administration including dictation, checking inboxes/ portals, writing file notes and invoicing.
• Corresponding with clients and booking meetings.
• Collating and printing documents for meetings.
• Writing up team meeting minutes, agenda and diarising key dates for the team.
• Supporting other members of the team and liaising with other business areas within the firm.
• Responding to general enquiries and assisting with the day-to-day work of the Employment team.

The ideal candidate will be accurate, work well as part of a team and have excellent administrative, organisational and client care skills. This role could also be an excellent opportunity for an ambitious person who has a passion for Employment Law.

The Court of Protection team manage the financial affairs of vulnerable or mentally incapable people living in the community and in care homes and hospital settings through authorisations from the Court of Protection and Powers of Attorney.

A full-time Legal and Finance Assistant is required to join this busy and interesting team at Northampton with a diverse client base. Working as part of the team, you will help with essential case management for these clients to help manage their financial affairs.

Responsibilities…

This is a full and busy role and will include the following:

• Supporting the team in all accounting roles, specifically the reconciliation of client’s bank accounts.
• Carrying out essential case management support to the Court of Protection team.
• Assisting the other team members in managing their case load on a task-by-task basis.
• Setting up payment authorisation reconciling bank statements; monitoring deputyship bank accounts and dealing with financial institutions, including opening and closure of bank accounts.
• Preparing files for detailed cost assessment and e-filing with The Senior Court Costs Office and dealing with the cost lawyers enquiries.
•  Preparing detailed file notes for all actions carried out on the file
• Completion of forms and applications at the case handler’s direction
• Taking and dealing with enquiries from clients and their family and care staff.
• General administration tasks for the management and organisation of the individual case files

Requirements

You will be well organised and possess a good aptitude for finances, banking and basic accounting.

You will be trustworthy, caring, patient, and understanding and possess an enthusiasm for work within the Court of Protection and Private client area of the law, working with vulnerable and elderly people and their families.

Previous Court of Protection exposure is preferred and some experience in dealing with finances is required. You must also be confident to use your initiative within set guidelines; be highly organised and have enthusiasm to develop a career in this area.

Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to have a basic DBS check and an enhanced credit check.

A Legal Secretary is required to support the Private Client team at our Leicester office. The work will involve support for a busy and dynamic team making Wills, lasting powers of attorney (LPA’s) and administering estate and trusts.

Tell me more about the role….

This is a full and busy role and will include the following:

• dealing with enquiries from clients;
• making appointments;
• preparing precedent letters;
• scanning and filing;
• conducting AML checks;
• completion of Will and Lasting Powers of Attorney documents, under instruction;
• task specific jobs including making phone calls, preparing distribution paperwork and general client communications;  
• filing paperwork;
• secretarial support using digital dictation;
• retrieval and deposit of Strongroom documents

Requirements

Although previous experience in these areas of work would be desirable, other suitable candidates will be considered as full training will be given.

 

We are looking for a team player with excellent client care skills, an abundance of common sense and empathy for elderly, vulnerable and bereaved clients. A strong team ethic, attention to detail and a passion for working with others is essential!

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