Join our leading UK Law firm as a Conveyancing Assistant in Oxford!
Are you an experienced Legal Administrator in Conveyancing, based in Oxford, and eager to advance your career? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our friendly and supportive Plot Sales team. If this sounds like your ideal role, we’d love to hear from you! Our Conveyancing Assistants are vital to our team, efficiently managing caseloads and providing crucial administrative support to ensure smooth operations. This role offers a fantastic chance to learn new skills and develop your career in a dynamic and challenging sector.
What you will do
As a Conveyancing Assistant, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our Conveyancing team with both routine and complex administrative tasks. Collaborating closely with our Conveyancers and Legal Administrators, you will ensure the delivery of exceptional service. Your responsibilities will include:
* Amending and collating letters with enclosures, adhering to deadlines, and securing appropriate signoffs from relevant Lawyers.
* Handling various post-completion tasks, progressively taking on more responsibility for deadlines.
* Engaging with clients, stakeholders, and third parties, promptly addressing correspondence, calls, and emails.
* Working alongside Matter Lawyers, the Team Manager, and members of the wider Real Estate Group.
This role offers ample opportunities for growth and development into more complex tasks.
What we’re looking for
* Experience working within Conveyancing and an understanding of Conveyancing procedures.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with great attention to detail.
* Capability to develop and maintain strong client relationships.
* Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
* Ability to complete tasks quickly and accurately, meeting the needs of assigned lawyers.
* Commitment to working within a quality standard environment.
* Strong IT skills with the ability to quickly learn new systems.
* Desire to work in an interesting, fast-paced, and collaborative environment.
About the team
Our Conveyancing Services team spans a multitude of different specialisms. Each team has specific levels of support and technical experience, and each of our Conveyancers takes ownership of their caseloads, assisting their clients through the drafting of relevant documents and ensuring compliance to enable housing transactions to go through smoothly. We strive to get to know our clients and take the responsibility of our instructions seriously. You will have the backing of a 50+ employee team to help you along the way. We are an accredited member of the Conveyancing Quality Scheme and have been appointed to over 60 of the major UK lending panels. Our continued success has led to us receiving accolades such as the best firm in our region at the ESTA Conveyancing awards 2019.
Pre-employment screening
Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team at recruitment.team@footanstey.com.
Eligibility to work in the UK
Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship.
Our offer to you
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well-supported coaching and mentoring programmes. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, private medical insurance, and a sabbatical every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme.
Why Foot Anstey?
As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them to deliver solutions. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.
Our people are central to our success, and we actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Talent Development programme and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us.
Apply for this Job
First Name * Last Name * Email * Phone Resume/CV Cover Letter Do you have legal admin experience in a conveyancing related environment? * Are you able to work each day in our Oxford/OX2 office? * Please detail your salary expectations * Please detail your notice period /availability to start the role * Please detail the hours of work you require *
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