Apprenticeship Within a Manchester Barristers

**LEGAL SUPPORT APPRENTICE BARRISTERS CHAMBERS**
- **An excellent opportunity to start a career, complete an apprenticeship and progress within a Barristers Chambers. General duties may include making and receiving telephone calls, preparing precise attendance notes, and filing, etc.**:

- **Fantastic opportunity to build a career in the legal sector working with some of the best lawyers and managers in the business and learning a wide range of knowledge and skills, transferrable into all walks of life.**

**Future Prospects**
- **We have promoted the last three apprentices over the last 6 years at the end of their successful apprenticeship.**:

- The salary would be in the region of £17,000.**:

- **The progression prospects are limitless. Many of our team have started at the most junior level in various chambers and progressed to the highest levels of the organisation including all current Senior Clerks and our Chambers Director. Obtained through hard work, continued professional development and training.**

**The Chambers**

**Barristers Chambers**

**Provide a platform for 80 plus barristers, across all areas of law to represent their clients. This is achieved through providing services including: administrative, diary management, practice development, business development, marketing, fee.**

**The Position**

**4 story Georgian Building.**

**Busy working environment but with relaxed and friendly atmosphere.**

**The Apprentice would work between three teams, clerking, marketing/front of house and fees.**

**The varied work leads to a challenging working day but every day will provide a different challenge.**

**The Office Junior/Apprentice position is divided into the following areas of responsibility and activity**:
** opening and distributing barrister’s briefs, instructions and associated post to appropriate clerking/marketing/fees teams;**

** taking books, briefs/papers and robes to court;**

** delivering urgent documents to client premises and other chambers;**

** assisting with stationery supplies/ordering;**

** working with clerking teams and checking court listings against chambers diary and case management systems to ensure accurate case listing information;**

** general administrative duties;**

** provide support and cover for front of house as and when required**

** assist the Fee Collection Team with administrative support**

** assisting barristers as and when requested.**

** answering phones and transferring to relevant clerking/accounts teams or barrister.**

** Cover for front of house including dealing with incoming calls, setting up conferences.**

**As the role progresses additional opportunities will arise, such as**:
** General clerking duties including, conflict checks, allocation of work, diary management, fee negotiating, data entry etc.**

** proactively seeking work for the chambers by keeping in touch with solicitors and undertaking other marketing activities, such as holding seminars and hosting events;**

** keeping chambers presentable across all areas of the building;**

** attending marketing events to assist marketing and clerking teams;**

** social media, maintain a responsible social media platform to support chambers;**

** administrative assistance in promoting marketing events;**

** research and development;**

**IMPORTANT**

**Desired skills**

4-9 grades English and maths GCSE's
- Confident with excellent communication skills.
- Ability to multitask and manage reception in conjunction with other administration duties
- Good attention to detail
- Good working knowledge of ICT packages including Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Ability to demonstrate or gain a clear understanding of the firm’s in-house systems where training will be given
- Excellent presentation, organisation and timekeeping skills
- Awareness of confidentiality and safeguarding
- The ability to use own initiative, be able to work individually as well as part of a team
- Must be well-presented with a clear, pleasant telephone manner
- Good organisational skills
- Good client care skills

**Personal qualities**
- Well presented and polite
- Ability to take the initiative
- Confident at dealing with people at all levels
- Reliable and adaptable
- Willingness to take on challenges and to push oneself further
- Motivated and keen to learn new skills

**You will complete the Level 3 Business Administrator Apprenticeship Standard.**
- This Apprenticeship will involve off the job training.
- You will also develop your knowledge, skills and behaviours.
- You need to have an employer to support your Apprenticeship and be employed in a relevant job role.
- The typical length of this Apprenticeship course is 18 months.
- This course has multiple start dates throughout the year

Apprenticeship information

Business Administration | Gateway Website (gatewaytrainingconsortium.co.uk)

**Things to consider**
- Please have a CV prepared on a word document
- Vacancy is for an immediate start, please consi