Plowden Facilities is the administration, facilities and management organisation for Parklane Plowden Chambers, a leading Barristers’ Chambers in Leeds and Newcastle, offering the services of Barristers to clients throughout the UK in commercial and personal legal cases.
We are looking to recruit a highly organised, disciplined, and confident Junior Practice Administrator to support our team in Leeds helping to administer cases on behalf of the Barristers as well as undertake routine administration and diary management.
In this developmental role, you will be supported to become highly competent as a Barristers’ Practice Administrator, interacting with a wide range of people within the legal field.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Office administration processes
• Using MS office applications in a business setting
• Using MS Teams to communicate information
• Diary administration / arranging meetings for others
• Producing written communications in a business setting
• Organising own workload and prioritising tasks
• Working as part of a team

SKILLS

• Ability to prioritise and to work to deadlines
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to appropriately deal with clients, barristers and colleagues in a professional manner
• Able to understand complex information
• Excellent telephone manner and accurate written communication skills
• Attention to detail and accuracy in work completed
• Disciplined and methodical in how work is done
• Organised and structured
• Able to manage a number of tasks at the same time
• Able to solve problems using logic and reason
• Confident user of MS Word, Outlook and MS Excel
• Able to make decisions based on reasoning
• Able to work independently when needed
  Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
  Pay: £25,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Leeds LS1 2RD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Administrative: 2 years (preferred)
• Customer service: 2 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds LS1 2R

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Active monitoring of emails to ensure that queries or questions are resolved quickly and in a professional manner
• Proactively raising potential or actual problems and addressing them in an appropriate manner
• Ensuring that all daily or routine administration tasks are completed fully and on time