Conveyancing Secretary
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £20000 – £25000/annum
Our client has a permanent vacancy for a Conveyancing Secretary. You will be a Residential Conveyancing secretary with minimum 2 years’ experience. This is an exciting opportunity for a Legal Secretary looking for personal and career growth opportunities; allowing you to build upon your experience within a modern and dynamic practice.
The role & Responsibilities:
General:
* To make your contact with clients a high priority and to convey a high degree of courtesy and responsiveness to their needs.
* To work as a team member with your fee-earner(s) and other colleagues.
* To anticipate problems and difficulties and take suitable action.
* To be continually sensitive to all facets of the overall quality of service being received by clients.
Specific:
* To carry out word processing as required by Fee Earner accurately and at a speed appropriate with the required standards.
* To answer incoming calls quickly and to deal with them in accordance with the firm's good practice procedures.
* To assist the fee-earner in diary management, including the maintenance if a reminder system, and daily priorities.
* To keep constantly updated summary of your fee-earner's current cases, and to be able to deal with simple queries from clients.
* To efficiently control filing and record system for your fee-earner.
* To efficiently control the flow of mail, faxes and other messages.
* To locate and extract information as required by the fee-earner.
* To undertake copying, collating, binding of documents and associated work.
* To undertake telephone contact with clients and potential clients under the direction of the fee-earner.
* To take personal responsibility for your own professional development, (within the context of the firm's Investors in People Policy).
* To maintain and improve your professional expertise.
* To participate in and contribute to the flow of information within the firm.
Skills Required:
* Legal secretarial experience of at least two years in a private practice.
* Excellent typing skills.
* Word processing "windows" and "word" knowledge.
* Good organisational skills.
* Professional telephone manner.
* Experience of and ability to deal with clients.
* Knowledge and experience of IT Skills especially "Case Management".
Due to the large number of responses we receive it is not always possible to respond to every application. We will only contact those candidates short-listed for this role. If you have not heard from us within 7 days please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. If you wish to apply for further roles please do so. We will retain your details on file and contact you should a suitable vacancy become available
More Information
- Address Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
