Opportunity Available
Job Role: Secretary/Assistant – Family Team
Type: Permanent, Full-time
Hours: 9.00am-5.00pm
Monday to Friday (35 hours per week)
Location: Maghull Office (37-39 Liverpool Road North, Maghull L31 2HB)
Experience Required: At least 3 years’ experience working as a Legal Secretary/Assistant. Family Law knowledge/experience is advantageous.
The Role
We are seeking applications from candidates who have general secretarial and administration skills to assist Fee Earners with legal work in relation to Family Law (including divorce, children, and financial issues). Ideally, we are looking for candidates with at least 3 years’ experience working as a Legal Secretary/Assistant. Experience, or interest in, Family Law is advantageous.
Effective administration skills and a good telephone manner are required for this position. This includes the ability to work under pressure, good time management and communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work as part of a Team. The successful candidate will need to be organised, caring and could multitask and be proactive.
Main Duties
- Attend upon clients and others to take instructions and information.
- Open new files on the case management system and prepare initial client care documentation.
- Type dictated letters, documents, and notes.
- Obtain ID from clients and complete ID checks in accordance with Anti-Money Laundering Procedures.
- Liaise with third parties such as Counsel, Counsel’s clerk, the Court.
- Prepare Court bundles.
- Arrange appointments with clients as well as conferences with Counsel and any Court hearings.
- Assist with progression of matters such as general chasers for documents.
- Prepare and send costs information, updates and assist with preparing bills as well as monitoring and chasing costs.
- General administration duties such as scanning post onto the system.
Salary and Benefits
The salary for this role is up to £24,000 per annum depending on experience.
Annual holiday entitlement in a full calendar year is 20 days, increasing yearly to 25 days by 5 years’ service. This is in addition to bank holidays and an extra 3 days to be used between Christmas and New Year.
We have a health benefit in place, which employees are eligible to join after 6 months’ service.
In addition, we offer company sick pay, as well as paid dependant’s leave.
Check out our Careers’ page for more information.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We are committed to ensuring our working practices and job roles are inclusive to meet a wide variety of needs. Therefore, should you require any reasonable adjustments or have access requirements, please make us aware when applying for the position so that we can arrange a suitable interview. Successful candidates will be asked about reasonable adjustments for their employment at Maxwell Hodge when they are formally offered the position, so that we can ensure the role meets their requirements.
About Maxwell Hodge
Maxwell Hodge is an independent firm of solicitors with 7 offices across Merseyside and Wirral. We were established over 150 years ago and our focus is on providing the best legal service and advice for our clients.
With a solid reputation, well ingrained in the local community, we offer an excellent working environment, where you can attend social and wellbeing events, have regular performance reviews with management and benefit from birthday leave, employer supported volunteering, an annual salary review and different reward and recognition incentives.
As a company, we are committed to providing employees with meaningful opportunities and therefore welcome applications from those looking for prospects of career development.
If you are interested in joining our team, please send your CV and covering letter to sarahboynton@maxweb.co.uk
We look forward to hearing from you.
