Job Title: Junior Barristers Clerk
Location: Sharston, M22 4HH
Salary: Up to £25,000 per annum
Job type: Full time, Permanent
Established in 2000, Express Solicitors is an award-winning law firm that deals with personal injury and clinical negligence claims. Based in Manchester, we serve clients nationwide. We are proud of the work we do helping injured people, and this is our core business. We have a 5-star ranking with Trust Pilot from over 6,000 reviews, which, coming from our clients, means a lot to us.
About the Role:
The Advocacy department are looking to recruit a Junior Barrister's Clerk to support our friendly team of 15.
The position is required to support our experienced Senior Barrister's Clerk with the department's diary management, reporting, assessing, and allocating incoming work, and further ad hoc administrative tasks.
- Are you a super organised individual?
- Are you a confident communicator?
- Do you have near perfect attention to detail?
- Are you a self-starter that can work on their own initiative?
- Do you possess excellent IT skills?
The successful applicant will have:
- Impeccable organisation skills
- Ideally experience of working in a busy scheduling role, preferably in a legal environment.
- It would be advantageous if you have experience working as a Junior Clerk at a Barristers' Chambers, but not essential as full training will be provided.
If you this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
Things you want to know:
- Salary up to £25,000.
- Our standard working hours are 8:30am to 5:30am Monday-Thursday and 8:30am to 5pm Friday.
- 23 days holiday a year, rising to 26 days, plus bank/public holidays.
- Extra day's holiday for your birthday after 2 years' service.
- 3 holiday buy backs per year after 1 year of service
- Private medical insurance available after 2 years' service
- Death in Service - 2 x salary based on annual salary only - eligibility commences when you join the company.
- Gym access 24/7 at South Court (subject to disclaimer form being completed)
- Active social committee, firm pays for trips to e.g. Bowling, Chester Races, Christmas party, Bi -annual Summer Barbecue
- Active training culture and various groups and events such as Diversity & Inclusion.
- Netball / Football team, 10km Manchester team and more.
- Enhanced Maternity Leave payment if you have over 1 year tenure, further enhanced at over 4 years' service.
- Other benefits including Employee Assistance Programme, free fruit delivered twice a week & annual (optional) flu jab.
Recruitment Process:
Interviews will be conducted by MS Teams and will include scenario-based questioning.
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Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Trainee Barrister's Clerk, Practice Manager, Sales, Account Management, Office Manager, Office Management, Legal Practice Manager, Practice Management, Barrister's Assistant, Business Support Manager, Legal Office Manager, Administration Manager, Finance, Human Resources may also be considered for this role.