Junior Barristers’ Clerk (Chester)
Salary range: from £25,400 p.a. (depending on skills and experience)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm (1-hour lunch) – flexibility will be considered
Holidays: 25 per year plus Bank Holidays (rising with length of service)
Benefits: contributory pension scheme, private healthcare and cash plan, group life policy
This is a great opportunity to join one of the largest barristers’ chambers in the country, and to commence a career as a barristers’ clerk on the first level of our Clerks Job Family. The Job Family has 5 Levels, from Junior to Senior Clerk, offering excellent long term personal development and career progression.
This is not a role for someone who wants to practice law (e.g. as a solicitor or barrister), but for anyone interested in working in an administrative and business support capacity in the legal sector in a vital role supporting the practice of barristers. We offer long term career prospects and development as a clerk.
As a member of our clerking team, you will help to provide a smooth and comprehensive clerking service to our members working in Crime, Family and Civil cases, including careful diary management, recording of briefs and instructions, checking court listings and dealing with email and telephone bookings and enquiries from clients. As your career with us progresses you will become more involved in fee negotiation, networking, barrister practice development and business development.
You’ll need to be able to demonstrate strong and professional written and spoken communication skills, great interpersonal skills, the ability to follow processes carefully and with particular attention to detail, a polite and friendly manner, confidence with IT, a willingness to learn and the ability to work well with colleagues to deliver an excellent overall service.
Ideally you will have proven experience of working as an Office Assistant, Administrator or Clerk in a barristers’ chambers or similar legal or professional services environment. Essentially, you will have working experience of administration, including email and telephone liaison with professional clients, confidence and experience in the use of office ICT and equipment and a flexible and team-oriented approach.
In return we offer a friendly and sociable working environment, a competitive salary and benefits package and, with over 40 clerking roles across our four sites, excellent opportunities for peer support and career development in the company.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Avril Vaughan, Lead Clerk on 01244 323070.
Please click here to view a full job description and person specification for the role and to apply.
Closing Date: we encourage swift applications and will close when we have sufficient applications shortlisted for interview.
We positively encourage applications from all sections of the community and operate an equal opportunities approach.
