Job Description

Family Team Legal Secretary – Birmingham Office

We are seeking a permanent, full-time Family & Childcare
Team Secretary for our newly expanded team in our Birmingham office.

Your Profile:

You will preferably:-

1.Have some experience
working as a legal secretary or similar with ideally some experience and
interest in family & child care law.

2. Have strong organisational skills

3.Have the ability to work
under pressure

1. Fast
   and accurate typing skills and spelling.
2. Clear
   and precise written and verbal communication skills.

We would like the ideal candidate:

• 1. To type from digital dictation,
  or otherwise including typing.

1. To do such electronic filing as may be
   required.
2. To deal with telephone calls whether
   incoming or outgoing from clients, Counsel, experts and other third
   parties.
3. To keep appointment diaries for any Fee
   Earner or any Senior Member of the team.
4. To deal with clients and others visiting
   the office as may be appropriate.
5. To ensure compliance with all office
   procedures as laid down in the Practice Manual including any variations or
   amendments.
6. To deal with
   CCMS legal aid matters / applications.
7. To action any
   fee notes and/or matters pertaining to experts’ invoices.
8. Any other such
   matters as required.

Working with us: -

The salary for this position is dependent on experience, but starts at
the Living Wage.

We will offer ongoing training and support to develop your
career as part of a strong and growing multi-office team.

Our offices are friendly, working entirely paperless with recent
significant investment in modern IT to enable you to work proficiently.

The role is full-time and after satisfactory training upon our
systems, we offer up to 2 days per week remote working.

We offer a great package of annual leave to ensure you get
enough time away from work. Our annual leave for this role provides 23 days (plus
bank holidays / Christmas and New Year).

We review annual leave and increase with service.

Employee benefits with GTS:

· Competitive
base salary.

· Pension
Scheme with employer contribution.

· Optional
Benenden Health Care.

· Administrative
support.

· Firm
laptop

· Ongoing
training and development.

· Supportive
supervision from mentors.

· Annual
appraisals and salary reviews.

· Bi-annual
parties for Summer and Christmas.

· Additional
perks and benefits.

· Competitive
training packages.

We have a dedicated in-bound telephony team to take calls and
messages for our fee earners. Lawyers also have the benefit of dictation and
support staff to assist in easing the pressure and enabling efficient working.

We are a multi-office, multi-service Legal 500 and Chambers
& Partners firm recognised for excellence in a variety of legal fields.