Legal Assistant

3 weeks ago

StratforduponAvon, United Kingdom Shakespeare Martineau Full time

**Legal Assistant - Social Housing - 12 month FTC**:

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- Company:
- Shakespeare Martineau- Closing date:
- 01/09/2023- Term:
- Contract- Duration:
- 1 year- Working hours:
- Full-time- Team:
- Social Housing Development- Location:
- Stratford-upon-Avon- The opportunityAre you proactive with a can-do attitude? Are you looking for an opportunity to join a forward thinkging and high energy team? Then we might have just what you are looking for...

**We can offer you**:

- A competitive salary with great benefits including private medical, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and a bonus day off for your birthday
- A culture of trust, empowerment and autonomy over your work
- Part of a vibrant, forward
- thinking team with the support of friendly, approachable partners who encourage and support your career development

We are looking for a Legal Assistant to join our vibrant Social Housing team based in our Stratford office on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract.

You will provide critical secretarial and administrative support to help our legal teams deliver a great service to our Housing Association clients, dealing with a variety of sale transactions including shared ownership, ‘right to buy’, ‘Surrender’ and Plot Sales’ Transactions.

**Your key duties will be**:

- providing timely and effective support to requests for assistance from members of the team
- accurately producing and amending correspondence and documentation by tracked changes including the use of digital dictation
- attending to clients in person and on the phone, taking messages and assisting where appropriate
- using a case management system to process and progress files
- managing file opening, closure and archiving
- producing bills and other financial administration
- managing diaries for the team, planning and organising meetings and making travel arrangements
- organising and maintaining departmental filing systems and document storage
- photocopying, scanning, faxing, printing, filing and other general administrative tasks

**Key skills and experience you will have**:

- a minimum of 2 years of previous experience in a secretarial role, ideally gained predominantly in Social Housing Association
- fast and accurate keyboard skills
- confidence with IT systems to include Microsoft Word, Excel and ideally PowerPoint

**Key competencies you will need**:

- the ability to work in a high volume and fast paced environment
- the ability to work well in a team and develop good working relationships with colleagues and others
- confident interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise openly and clearly with colleagues and clients
- to be able to produce a high standard of work, often to tight deadlines, whilst maintaining accuracy and good attention to detail
- ability to prioritise well and be able to cope with challenging and changing demands
- to be able to demonstrate professionalism, flexibility, initiative and self confidence

**About you - you will be**:

- highly enthusiastic, willing to go the extra mile and be happy to go beyond the job description
- respectful towards others and have a positive, willing and ‘can do’ attitude
- keen to learn, interested in driving your own career progression and be proactive in taking ownership
- How we workWe embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

We have hubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leicester, London, Lincoln, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will be based from our Stratford office initially, with the opportunuty to work on a hybrid basis over time
- Additional information- Equal opportunitiesShakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
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