Senior Clerk, Sheffield
PERMANENT ROLE
Salary range: Competitive
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm (1-hour unpaid lunch break)
Holidays: 32 per year plus Bank Holidays
Benefits: contributory pension scheme, private healthcare and cash plan, group life policy, enhanced maternity pay.
Location: Sheffield City Centre, with travel to other sites in the North and to clients.
St John’s Buildings is one of the largest barristers’ chambers in the country with sites across the North of England and over 240 barristers practising across multiple disciplines. We pride ourselves on excellent service and management and hold ISO9001 and ISO27001 accreditations as well as adhering to the regulatory requirements of the Bar Standards Board and Bar Council.
Our Sheffield site is host to 50 barristers servicing clients across the country, but primarily in Yorkshire and the surrounding areas.
In this vital role you will:
- Report directly to the Chief Executive
- Be an active member of Chambers’ Senior Management Team, contributing to the strategic vision and operational plans of Chambers
- Lead and manage a staff team of 10 (with some matrix management from others)
- Have management responsibility for running the Sheffield site, ensuring facilities are maintained and appropriate conference facilities provided to members and clients
- Drive business development activity for the Sheffield site, building and sustaining a network of clients
- Ensure the delivery of excellent clerking services and facilities from our Sheffield site, working in synergy with colleagues and barristers across all sites
- Assist in the recruitment and development of new pupils and barristers, guiding and supporting practice development and sustainable careers at St John’s Buildings.
The successful candidate will:
- Be a highly experienced and effective barristers’ clerk either working as a Senior Clerk already or ready for the step into a Senior Clerk role
- Be an excellent diary manager, ideally with experience clerking Family, Crime and Civil law, although expertise in one field will be sufficient to be considered for the role
- Have a positive record of business development, both in maintaining existing relationships through strong networking and interpersonal skills and the delivery of excellent service and in bringing in new clients and cases
- Have experience of training, supervising and ideally line managing others
- Have a robust knowledge of the legal market and the regulatory environment in which we operate
- Have an established network of contacts in the legal marketplace (ideally in the same region) and the skills and drive to build that further to the benefit of Chambers and its members
- Have a personality and approach that builds credibility and rapport with all stakeholders
- Be ready to work as part of a wider management team and unified multi-site chambers
- Have strong working knowledge of diary management software, e.g. MLC, Lex
- Have strong general computer literacy.
To apply for the role and view a full job description and person specification, please click here.
Please submit applications by 24th December 2025. We are aiming for a start date of 1st April 2026.
We positively encourage applications from all sections of the community and operate an equal opportunities approach.
