Ashfield Healthcare

Location: Office Based, Birmingham City Centre

Salary: £27K - £28K + Company Benefits

The Role:

We are working with our client, an established Law Firm, who are seeking an experienced Legal Secretary to join their dynamic and growing team.

As a Legal Secretary you will provide vital administrative support to their fee earners, ensuring they always have access to quality support, so that admin tasks are completed quickly and to a high standard.

You will be a key member of the team working within a collaborative environment committed to providing excellent service to their clients!

Role Responsibilities:

• • Provide full secretarial support to fee earners, including diary management, document preparation, and client liaison.
  • Dictation typing and preparing correspondence, documents, and forms.
  • Manage correspondence, filing, and maintaining client records.
  • Maintaining good organisation of new and ongoing files using an electronic case management system (Tikit).
  • Handle telephone and email inquiries from clients and external parties.
  • Ensuring confidentiality and compliance with GDPR and firm policies at all times.

   Experience & Expertise:

  • Demonstrable experience as a Legal Secretary with Dictaphone & Audiotyping
  • Excellent typing skills, able to quickly and accurately process legal documents, including correspondence and bills, from manuscript or digital dictation, with minimal supervision.
  • Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise a busy workload.
  • Experience of Tikit (or similar case management system) and BigHand dictation would be advantageous but not essential.
  • and a professional telephone manner.
  • Excellent IT skills with the ability to pick up new systems quickly.
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work well as part of a team and independently.

   

    What they offer you:

  • 24 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
  • 2 additional days holiday are normally provided at Christmas (usually Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve)
  • Option to purchase up to 3 days additional holiday
  • 8% pension (4% employee contribution, 4% employer)
  • Life Assurance of 4X salary
  • Up to 2 days off for volunteering
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme & Bereavement Support helpline
  • Free flu jabs
  • Discounted will writing and conveyancing