Family Paralegal

**Family Paralegal**

**Maidstone or Canterbury**

**Monday - Friday**

**Attractive Salary DOE**

Are you an experienced Family Paralegal looking for a new role to progress your career with one of the South East’s leading Law Firms? Or are you an enthusiastic individual with a professional temperament and willingness to learn, looking to progress yourcareer within the legal sector? This may be the ideal role for you

Whilst the Firm expect employees to work hard, they also want them to enjoy their work and establish successful careers with the business.

Duties
- Liaising with clients, the Court Service and relevant third party intermediaries
- Assisting with RSPCA work and general Legal support
- To meet and contribute to meeting individual and departmental financial and performance targets
- Accurately record time and ensure time recording targets are achieved
- Attending team, firm and training meetings a
- Assisting and supporting all members of the team
- Undertaking any other reasonable tasks, duties or requests as and when required by the team or the wider partnership
- An experienced Paralegal/Legal Secretary with a knowledge of the relevant processes and forms required
- Customer service experience
- Excellent IT skills (including Microsoft Office, primarily Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint)
- Ability to use a CMS or willingness to learn
- Strong numeracy and the ability to understand financial ledgers
- An appreciation of the need for discretion and confidentiality
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills

**Benefits**:

- 23 days holiday per year, rising to 26 days after 3 years’ service
- Life assurance
- Opportunities to train, develop and grow
- Private medical insurance
- Group income protection
- Staff discounts
- Social events
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme
- And much more