Residential Property Assistant (6191)

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

The role of the Legal Assistant is to provide conveyancing admin support to fee earner colleagues (southern based) to allow them to provide quality legal advice and exceptional conveyancing and secured lending services to our clients.

You will assist fee earners with managing their caseloads of purchase, sale, remortgage, secured lending and other associated matters for both freehold and leasehold properties. More specifically, the conveyancing tasks you can expect to support fee earners with include, but are not limited to:

• Completing file openings and conducting conflict checks.
• Assisting with compliance procedures.
• Preparing sales packs and liaising with managing agents.
• Preparing initial forms.
• Completing post completion processes including Land Register applications.
• Requesting property searches.
• Preparing letters to clients, banks, other solicitors and third parties.
• Updating spreadsheets and keeping track of statutory dates.
• Liaising closely with clients to keep them up to date on the progress of their matter.
• Ensuring all appropriate documentation is recorded and updated as required.
• Reprographics tasks including photocopying, scanning, binding and printing.
• Dealing with incoming and outgoing post.
• Ensuring that documents and emails are filed to the electronic files.
• Dealing with payment and invoice processing.

About You

We're looking for a Legal Assistant with a personable nature, a willingness to get stuck in and a desire to join a close knit team. Our ideal candidate will have the following:

• Demonstrable experience providing support to fee earners within the conveyancing/residential property space.
• Demonstrable experience working in an administrative/secretarial capacity, handling strict deadlines in a fast paced environment.
• A familiarity with HMLR, SDLT and conveyancing searches and documentation.
• The ability to provide excellent customer and client service.
• Good IT skills, specifically high proficiency in all Microsoft Office packages.

The role requires working five days per week on site in Newbury during the probation period for training and will then revert to a hybrid working model upon successful completion of probation.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - you can buy up to 35 hours of extra holiday.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days - two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid).
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
• Wide-range well being initiatives, including a Flexible by Choice programme for a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

Additional Information

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group's onboarding process, all successful applicants are required to complete the group's employment screening process. This includes establishing eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with our trusted third parties. The employment screening process fully complies with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.