Costs Scheduler

**Costs Scheduler**

**Location: Bolton**

**Salary: £Competitive**

**Contract Type: Perm**

**Position Type: Full Time**

**Bond Turner** is a leading law firm, proudly recognised by both _Legal 500_ and _Chambers & Partners_. We are committed to ensuring access to justice for our clients and their families, providing expert legal services with a client-centered approach.

With offices in Liverpool and Bolton, we offer nationwide legal advice across a wide range of sectors.

Our areas of expertise **include Credit Hire, Personal Injury, including Complex Injury, Clinical** and **Professional Negligence, Housing Disrepair, Group Action Claims** and **Public Inquiries**. We are driven by a commitment to achieving successful outcomes, surpassing client expectations, and creating a supportive environment that empowers our employees to build fulfilling and rewarding careers.

We understand that our growth as a business is driven by the success of our people. We take pride in fostering a positive, collaborative work environment where everyone can contribute to our shared success. With exceptional support at every turn, every employee is empowered to reach their full potential.

We are currently recruiting for a Cost Scheduler who will be based in Bolton. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about the work they do, the service they provide and getting the best results for their clients.

Providing bespoke Cost scheduling support to colleagues within the organisation. Working with colleagues within a close-knit team environment to ensure both individual and departmental scheduling expectations/targets are serviced and met. Responsible for management of allocated scheduling caseload and ensuring timely production of accurate/high quality schedules of costs in predominantly RTA claims (both Fast track and Multi track).

If you have got drive and determination, ambition and are looking for a stimulating career then we would love to hear from you.

**Responsibilities to include**:

- Drafting schedules of costs in accordance with Departmental requirements/workstreams to include schedules for interlocutory hearings, Trials and also for negotiation purposes.
- Providing dedicated costs support to colleagues, both within the Department and the legal business
- Working closely with colleagues and Department Manager/POD Supervisor within a team environment to ensure scheduling expectations are achieved
- Maintaining awareness of claim lifecycles and ensuring that service delivery is maintained. Ensuring colleague/management expectations and outcomes are met in a timely fashion.
- Identifying and adhering to department/group objectives
- Showing initiative with ability to work within a team environment but autonomously (managing own scheduling caseload) and the initiative/capability to deal with more complex matters
- Liaising with colleagues to maintain departmental working practices and procedures
- Understanding legal processes and documentation including internal case management system.
- Being passionate and enthusiastic about our work
- Thinking independently and taking ownership of work
- Being agile/responsive to work and adapting to change and evolution within the business

**About You**:

- Degree level (desirable)
- Experience in a costs scheduling role or within a costs environment
- Experience in drafting schedules of Costs (both fixed costs and hourly rate costs) in RTA claims
- Excellent communication and organisation skills
- Good understanding of the CPR, relevant legislation, case law and costs industry regulations
- Experience of using Proclaim case management system (desirable)
- Diligence and high attention to detail
- Personality, tenacity and enthusiasm

**Company Values**:
We’re a collaboration of companies established in 2006 working towards and guaranteeing the same goal. Our mission: We are driven to succeed. Our purpose is to help people move on in their lives through supporting our clients, our communities and each other.
- We support
- We surpass
- We succeed

**What we offer in return**:
We offer a clean professional office working environment with fantastic facilities in Horwich, Bolton. A competitive salary including 23 days holiday allowance plus 8 bank holidays. Employee Assistant Programme. Workplace pension scheme. Free Onsite parking. The opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with a wonderful Law firm.

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person