Legal Support Assistant, Residential Property Team

3 months ago

Exeter, United Kingdom Kitsons LLP Full time

**Our Residential Property Team**

The Residential Property team combines efficient legal support colleagues with trusted and experienced conveyancing lawyers who, together, deliver outstanding client service across the full range of residential property services.

Our Residential Property department is led by Jenna Hamilton-Pursglove, a Partner and a Chartered Legal Executive, who is familiar with a broad range of conveyancing matters, specialising in shared ownership purchases, unregistered land and lease extensions. Jenna is based in our Exeter office and supports the rest of the team based across Exeter, Torquay and Plymouth. Collectively the team provides our clients with a first-class service, offering clear advice and support along every step of the conveyancing process.

In our friendly and experienced Residential Property team, you will feel supported in what you do whilst enjoying the autonomy to use your initiative and self-manage your working day once you have become familiar with our processes and procedures and the firm’s standards and expectations.

In our friendly and experienced Residential Property team, you will feel supported in what you do whilst enjoying the autonomy to use your initiative and self-manage your working day once you have become familiar with our processes and procedures and the firm’s standards and expectations.

**The Role**

You will also assist the fee earners with progressing residential conveyancing matters from instruction through to completion. This will include but will not be limited to the preparation and submission of searches, conducting searches and enquiries through the Land Registry Portal, filing SDLT returns, preparing completion work including raising cheques, completion statements and preparing files for closing and archiving.

And finally, you will assist in ensuring that the work of the Residential Property team in Exeter is carried out in accordance with the firm’s own standards and you will endeavour to deliver a high quality, efficient and effective professional legal service by ensuring that documentation is prepared and produced to a consistently high standard within required deadlines.

**Who You Are**

You will be an efficient and effective administrator and a strong team player who is keen to both support and learn from colleagues:
You will:

- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and will be articulate and able to communicate clearly, concisely and without jargon.
- Have experience of working with a variety of business packages and a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Be able to develop and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues, clients and other professional contacts.
- Have the ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure, whilst maintaining a thorough, organised and methodical approach to your work.
- Be flexible and adaptable when necessary.

**The Reward**

It is extremely important that all our team members feel valued and their hard work and commitment is recognised so we offer a generous remuneration package which makes Kitsons an employer of choice.

If you work for us, you will enjoy a range of benefits which include:

- Competitive salary
- Employer Pension contribution
- 33 days’ holiday per annum
- Flexible working and the opportunity to work remotely on occasion
- Supported training
- Opportunities for career progression
- An additional day’s leave on your birthday
- Corporate health care cash plan for all employees
- Free staff legal services - wills and conveyancing
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Membership of Mindful Employer
- A range of initiatives to support physical and mental health wellbeing

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

**Salary**: £19,000.00-£21,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Exeter: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- legal support, secretarial or administrative: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: LSA/Resi Prop Ex

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