Office Services Administrator

1 week ago


Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom Ashtons Legal Full time

The Firm


Ashtons Legal is a growing firm in the East of England with a focus on providing excellent legal advice to a diverse range of individuals, institutions and executives across our region and beyond.


We are a friendly and supportive team of professionals working together to make sure our clients get the best advice possible.

Our firm has a flexible reward and benefits structure and a culture of openness with an innovative leadership looking to the future

The Office Services and Facilities Team


Our Office Services and Facilities teams are in place to support all of our colleagues with the day-to-day running for the office - enabling them to deliver a smooth service to our clients.

As a team, we are responsible for delivering all front of house, postal and admin services in all locations.

Our team also have Health and Safety, Manual Handling and First Aid responsibilities and you will be expected to take on these duties, with the necessary training.


The Role
The Central Office Services team provide invaluable admin support to our divisions.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for supervising a small team to deliver the following services:

Post Services

  • Sorting incoming post, scanning and distributing the post to the correct teams and divisions
  • Preparing outgoing post ready for collection at the designated time
  • Franking of our mail, making sure all couriered and DX items are signed for and dealt with correctly
  • Ensuring that any cross office post is ready for collection at the designated time
  • Resolving, as far as possible, the owner of any unclaimed mail

Reprographics

  • Providing photocopying and binding services when requested to all the teams, taking ownership of each reprographics job produced and ensure end users are informed about the production of their work and that deadlines are met. Quality checking all work completed
  • Scanning of all documents, including the preparation of electronic and hard copy court bundles and bibles
  • PDF Amendments

Filing, Archiving and Retrieval

  • Assisting the team with archiving; sending and retrieving boxes as needed
  • Document management including the maintenance and timely updating of paper files and appropriate online filing systems; creating electronic files on the relevant systems where this isn't in place

Office Services

  • Maintaining sufficient stationery and refreshment supplies within a budget.

Reception Duties

  • Providing reception duties for client meetings, including organising refreshments for meetings when necessary
  • Ensuring equipment required for client and internal meetings is set up and tested ahead of time
Full training on equipment used will be provided

It may be necessary to update tasks and responsibilities and introduce new processes from time to time.

Knowledge, skills and experience required
We would like you to have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong attention to detail
  • A methodical approach to you work, even when dealing with routine tasks
  • A pride in your work
  • Strong communication skills the ability to liaise effectively and professionally with external and internal clients
  • Be committed to building relationships with the legal teams
  • Ability to work on own initiative, following set instructions but without supervision
  • Able to work well under pressure and with often conflicting deadlines
  • Computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Outlook (training will be provided for firmspecific software)
  • Flexible attitude to working alongside different team members
  • Ability to use own initiative to solve problems on the job

This is an entry level, permanent, full time role.

Pre-employment screening:

Should we make you an offer of employment, we will be carrying out pre-employment screening.


These checks will relate to professional and academic qualifications, references from previous employers, social media checks, your eligibility to work in the UK, disciplinary search with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

We will also carry out a DBS search (Disclosure and Barring Service) which checks for any previous criminal convictions. Some roles at Ashtons Legal require a financial background check to be carried out.


Please be assured that we will not be carrying out any checks prior to your formal acceptance of our offer and your confirmation of resignation.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

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