Legal Administrator

Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Legal Administrator for our client a local government organisation in Gloucester.

The successful candidate will support a team of Lawyers and Paralegals covering public law child care proceedings within the Children and Families Legal Team.

This is initially a 6 month contract with the possibility to extend after that date. This role is hybrid working.

Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:

Take a proactive approach to supporting the Lawyers, Senior Lawyers, Principal Lawyers and Legal Services Business Partner in managing their cases.
Take a flexible approach to working across Legal Services in providing support.
Support the improvement of the administrative processes for the service through the use of electronic systems (amongst other things) and Legal Services’ Case Management System.
Under the direction of the lawyers, the preparation of standard legal documents and correspondence forming part of the work of Legal Services.
Provide an efficient and effective support service to the lawyers to facilitate legal meetings, court hearings, inquiries and committee meetings.
Preparing and maintaining statistics relevant to each area as required by the Principal Lawyer and Legal Services Business Partner.
Dealing with general enquiries relevant to the work of Legal Services.
Assist the Team with time sensitive court matters (e.g. bundling).
Assist with general correspondence (i.e. sending out letters via DocMail).
Assist with invoicing process as well as opening files on our case management system.
Arrange meetings, make telephone calls to help with ICT queries etc.
Be a point of contact with our Service Area clients.
Monitor our general inbox and allocate matters or queries to the relevant lawyers.
Personal Requirements:

Previous experience of the provision of administrative support.
Experience of working in a legal environment (Desirable).
Experience of working in local government (Desirable).
Computer literacy, including Microsoft Word and Outlook.
Good IT skills including the ability to use a case management system together with the ability to introduce changes to improve service delivery through the use of the system.
NVQ Level 2 in Business and Administration (Desirable).
Working Hours: 37hrs / +:00am - 17:00pm / Monday to Friday

Pay: £17.74 p/h

Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.