Junior Clerk

JUNIOR CLERK OPPORTUNITY

Are you interested in law and wanting to build a career within the legal profession?

We are looking to recruit a highly organised, disciplined, and confident Junior Clerk to support our highly regarded, friendly and well-respected Barristers Chambers.
- About the role_
- Proactively raising potential or actual problems and addressing them in an appropriate manner.
- Ensuring that all daily or routine administration tasks are completed fully and on time.

**Administration**
- Daily checking of court lists.
- If requested ensuring briefs and instructions are printed and delivered in good time.
- To assist with incoming telephone calls, answering queries wherever possible and distributing calls accordingly.
- Provide other administrative support as requested and directed.

**Fee management**
- Responding in a timely manner to minor fee enquiries.
- Supporting the administration for billing of lower level work.
- Monitoring and recording incoming payments.
- Proactively recover outstanding fees from clients.

**Case management**
- Contacting clients and chasing papers that are required for cases.
- Administering the allocation of cases for the Barristers ensuring the diary is accurate and up to date.
- Process changes to dates and times for cases in a timely manner.
- About you_

**Experience and Knowledge**
- Office administration processes.
- Diary administration / arranging meetings for others.
- Producing written communications in a business setting.
- Organising own workload and prioritising tasks.
- Working as part of a team.

**Skills**
- Ability to prioritise and to work to deadlines.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to appropriately deal with clients, barristers and colleagues in a professional manner.
- Excellent telephone manner and accurate written communication skills.
- Attention to detail and accuracy in work completed.
- Able to manage a number of tasks at the same time.
- Able to solve problems using logic and reason.
- Confident user of MS Word, Outlook and MS Excel.
- Able to work independently when needed.

**Salary**: £19,000.00-£23,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person