Trainee Costs Draftsperson

**About us**

**Why this job?**

We are offering a professional legal job, with full training, which has an interesting and diverse caseload. We invest in great people, great training and great systems. We offer excellent uncapped earning potential after your year of training. Having a degree is not essential as a full training programme will be provided. You will go through the training programme completing all of the sessions on our training platform and then you are tasked with completing mock files before moving on to live files. All live files will go through a checking process until you are, something that we call, signed off.

**We are looking for a trainee who will undertake responsibilities such as**:

- Preparing legal forms and detailed bills of solicitors legal costs
- Manage a caseload of work
- Prepare documents
- Analysing files and preparing advice on compliance with Legal Aid Agency regulations and guidance
- Update case management software
- Swiftly deal with client queries
- Maintain and promote relationships with clients
- Ability to prioritise urgent work and meet deadlines

**Essential requirements**:

- GCSE grades C (or equivalent) and above in English and Maths
- Excellent IT skills
- Motivated team player who can work use their own initiative when required
- Ability to regularly check your own work and provide a high standard of accuracy and precision
- Great organisation skills
- Good Keyboard and communication skills

Frenkel Topping Group is an equal opportunities employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Frenkel Topping Group is proud to be Disability Confident Committed. If you are invited to take part in our recruitment process, please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments that will allow you to perform to the best of your ability.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £20,820.80 per year

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Store discount
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Alfreton