Legal Admin Assistant

**What's involved with this role**:
**Temporary Legal Admin Assistant - Children's Litigation Team**
**Reference no: Knowsley RQ801306**
**Pay Rate: £16.00 per hour PAYE**
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Drafting requests for police records and following up and tracking progress on those.
- Drafting letters of instruction to experts; identifying experts and counsel as required.
- Interpreting policy/ procedural guidance, where courses of action are not clear, and advise others accordingly.
- Compiling and maintaining records and administrative systems both manual and computerised.

**“Role Requirements” - to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria**:
**Qualifications**:

- Relevant experience as a Legal Secretary or Administrator within a fee earning environment. - Or
- Law degree, or equivalent.

**Skills & Experience**:

- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Administrative experience, ideally in a legal environment.
- Literacy skills in order to research and produce reports, management information, non-standard correspondence, minutes and accurate records of meetings.
- Ability to analyse information, conduct legal research and prepare reports
- Complete understanding of the Appeals and dispute process
- Dealing appropriately with confidential information.
- Experience Of gathering or presenting evidence or advice in public or in court.
- Litigation Support experience.
- Able to communicate effectively with Members and outside professional bodies e.g. barristers and Court.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

**To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF**
**If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.**

**Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items**:

- **Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.**
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- **Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.**

**Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable**:

- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.

**Job Ref: Knowsley RQ801306**

**Anticipated Length of Assignment**: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.