Personal Injury Legal Secretary

3 weeks ago

Sandwich, United Kingdom Girlings Solicitors Full time

**The Role**:
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Legal Secretary to join our sister company Girlings Personal Injury Claims, based at Discovery Park in Sandwich. The successful applicant will support the director and team by providing a full range of secretarial support including arranging appointments, dealing with client queries, audio typing and preparing correspondence and documentation.

**The Firm**:
Girlings Solicitors is one of Kent’s leading law firms, with offices in Canterbury, Ashford, and Herne Bay. Girlings Personal Injury Claims is based in Sandwich and has been awarded the Law Society’s accreditations for both Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence. Memberships also include Headway Brain Injury Association, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and The Foundation for Infant Loss Training. We are a friendly, supportive, and inclusive employer. We nurture a thoroughly welcoming and collaborative work environment, supplemented by numerous social events and networking opportunities.

You will have previous secretarial experience in a legal environment and good audio typing skills. Familiarity with clinical negligence and/or personal injury work is desirable.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Providing full secretarial support to the Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence teams, including arranging appointments and dealing with client queries in person and by phone, together with preparation of correspondence and documents by audio typing via the digital dictation system.
- Filing, photocopying and opening/closing client files in a timely manner.
- Maintaining and coordinating diaries and diary notes and reporting on these to the team fee earners as necessary.
- Regular consideration of client files and liaising with team fee earners on action required.
- To provide ad hoc secretarial cover for sickness and holiday absences in the team when needed.

**Salary**: Competitive

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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