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. Additionally, you will handle various post-completion tasks, progressively taking on more responsibility for deadlines. You will engage 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 also 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.
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. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying.
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, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. 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 you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most.
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, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers 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.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021. We actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law.
Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.
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