Personal Reader Assistant for Visually Impaired
6 months ago
**Salary One day per week, normally a Friday, (7.5 hours) at hourly rate equivalent to statutory minimum wage. Location at One Angel Square, 4 Angel Street, Northampton NN1 1ED.**
Pathfinder Legal Services Ltd is an innovative social enterprise law firm providing legal services to the public and not for profit sector. We have grown significantly in recent years and in addition to our head office in Huntingdon, we have branch offices in Northampton and Shefford. We pride ourselves on giving high quality, comprehensive and affordable advice to our many clients, who include local authorities, health bodies, charities, schools and housing associations across the region.
This post is for a person to act as a personal reader assistant for a lawyer who is visually impaired and who is employed by Pathfinder Legal Services Limited at our Northampton office. His role is as a property lawyer, dealing with land acquisitions and disposals, and other land matters, such as leases and licences. The post holder will be employed directly by the lawyer needing assistance, and not by Pathfinder Legal Services Limited. The employing lawyer receives funding from the Department of Works and Pensions, via the Access to Work scheme, to fund the wages. He employs a number of assistants at present, who usually work with him one day per week. The post holder does not need to be legally qualified.
**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**
- The Assistant will work with a visually impaired lawyer who is employed by Pathfinder Legal Services Limited to help him to read documents (primarily electronic in nature) and to interpret plans and use a case management system and access various websites for legal resources. The assistant will also act as a note taker when required, and will accompany the lawyer who needs assistance to meetings on and off site and will provide general assistance.
- To assist with the use of photocopying machines.
- Assisting with formatting documents using Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Acrobat.
- Participate, with the visually impaired lawyer, in team/departmental meetings.
- To assist in maintaining a safe working environment for the visually impaired lawyer and to assist in the obtaining of refreshments (teas, coffees, etc) from the kitchen area within the workplace.
- To assist the visually impaired lawyer to evacuate from the workplace in the event of a fire or other emergency.
The workplace is in a modern office building with up to date IT technology, with break out areas and a canteen area on site. The post offers 4 days of paid annual leave (based on a pro rata entitlement). Additional days could be worked if cover is required and the assistant is available and willing to work additional days. The start and finish times may alter from week to week but will usually be for a 7.5 hour day, the earliest start time being 08:00 and the latest finish time being 17:00. A lunchbreak is provided (half hour) which normally starts at noon.
**Job Type**: Part-time
**Salary**: £7.49-£10.42 per hour
Expected hours: 7.5 per week
Work Location: In person
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