Opportunity Available
Job Role: Residential Conveyancer
Experience: 5 years’+ in Residential Conveyancing.
Type: Permanent, Full or Part time
Hours: 9.00am-5.00pm, at least 4 days per week
Location: West Kirby Office (34 Grange Road CH48 4EF)
Although hybrid working is available.
To Apply: Contact Sarah Boynton, Head of HR.
E-mail: sarahboynton@maxweb.co.uk or T: 01704 872156
The Role
We are seeking applications from Residential Conveyancers to join our Property Team. Ideally, we would be looking for someone with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in both Freehold and Leasehold Residential Conveyancing to hit the ground running and undertake varied matters including sales and purchase, mortgages and re-mortgages, transfers of equity and first registrations.
To succeed in this role, we are looking for people who have good time management skills and the ability to work under pressure to meet both client demands and financial and time recording targets. In addition, a caring and empathetic approach towards both clients and colleagues is required as well as strong decision-making, motivation, teamwork, cooperation, and communication.
We would also be looking for candidates who are creative and innovative to support marketing and business development. The types of opportunities in this regard include attending networking events, preparing blogs and articles, and participating in career fairs and practice interviews at schools.
Main Duties
- Attend upon clients and others to take instructions.
- Meet client demands and expectations, as well as case specific demands (such as deadlines).
- Draft and Dictate letters and documents, such as contracts and completion statements.
- Review documentation and advise clients accordingly, e.g., on mortgage offers, leases and searches.
- Undertake full due diligence investigations to satisfy AML and source of funds/wealth requirements.
- Oversee the whole transaction, including post-completion duties.
- Comply with all professional obligations.
- Flexibility to work at any other office, as and when required.
- Accurately record matter related time.
Salary and Benefits
The salary for this role is up to £45,000 FTE depending on experience and level of PQE.
Annual holiday entitlement will also depend on experience. For example, if you are 3 years’ PQE, your entitlement in a full calendar year is 23 days (increasing to 25 days in line with PQE). If you are 5+ years PQE on starting with us, you would be on 25 days. This is in addition to bank holidays and an extra 3 days to be used between Christmas and New Year. This is the fulltime holiday entitlement and would be pro rata depending on number of days worked.
Furthermore, we offer paid sick leave, dependency leave, and birthday leave. We have a health benefit in place with Medicash, which new starters can join after 6 months’ service. In addition, we offer staff wellbeing and social events as well as annual teambuilding. There are different opportunities for reward and recognition throughout the year including a Bonus Policy, Employee Referral Programme, employee recognition whereby colleagues can nominate each other as well as a client care quarterly reward. We have a formal development and training/performance review process and review salaries and bonuses in June of each year.
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 will thrive in an open and supportive culture. Our values are Team, Support, Guidance and Resilience, which we expect our people to demonstrate both in their professional and personal lives.
We are committed to providing employees with meaningful opportunities and therefore welcome applications from those looking for prospects of career development. You will be asked about your motivations and career aspirations at your interview. Beyond this, you will have opportunities to discuss training, development, and your goals/objectives at your probation review meetings and development & training/performance review.
We look forward to hearing from you.
