Junior Secretary – Maternity Cover (1 year)
Salary: Competitive
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The company
Invicta Law’s Child Protection group prides itself on providing comprehensive and proactive legal advice and support at competitive rates to local authority clients in all areas of child protection law. We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Secretary to join our team of experienced professionals on a 1-year fixed term contract for Maternity Cover.
We are looking for a Junior Secretary to play a vital role in supporting our team of expert lawyers to deliver high-quality and value for money advice to key clients within Child Protection. The role will look to provide an individual service to an allocated fee earner as well as an array of administrative tasks.
The successful candidate will provide effective and efficient support to the team, have the ability to work to deadlines, and achieve and maintain good working relationships with clients, colleagues, Local Authority employees and external practitioners and partners.
Prior administration experience is required, as well as knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (training will be provided on our own in-house systems). Education to a GCSE standard (minimum graded A – C, including English).
Benefits:
- Opportunities for job advancement and growth
- Flexible Working
- Group Pension Plan
- Enhanced Annual Leave
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Statutory Pay
- Strong CPD opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Modern offices in the heart of Maidstone
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Provide effective and efficient support to qualified lawyers and others as directed.
- Liaise effectively with colleagues and clients.
- Achieve and maintain good working relationships with internal and external clients, colleagues, other Local Authority staff, and external practitioners and partners.
- Legal administrative tasks including (but not limited to) opening and closing files, compliance checks, inputting documents into Invicta Law’s case management system.
- Assisting with Court Bundles and liaising with courts, letter correspondence, incoming post, and invoices.
- Other general administrative tasks throughout the Team.
Interested?
If you are interested, we would like to hear from you. Please submit a CV and covering letter (please keep to a maximum of one side of A4) to careers@invicta.law. The closing date for applications is 19th March 2021.
If you would like any more information about the roles including the full job description, please contact our HR Administrator Helen Wright on 03000 411100. For more information on working for Invicta Law, check out our Careers page.