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Jazz Personnel
Our Client, a leading criminal defence, family law, and prison law firm with over 15 branches across England and Wales are currently recruiting an experienced clerk for their Bristol Crown Court Department, covering courts in Bristol, Wiltshire and beyond.
Job Description
The Crown Court Department Clerk manages and supervises their department by maintaining control of the workflows and managing advocate resources.
Responsibilities and duties:
- Diaries - ensuring all diaries are up to date and all hearings are covered by an appropriate advocate.
- File management - ensuring all files comply with standards set by Lexcel and internal company policies whilst ensuring funding is in place, setting up files and preparing files for caseworkers and advocates.
- Monitoring the secure email system and liaising with the courts, CPS, caseworkers and advocates to assist with case progression
- Arranging prison visits and conferences for caseworkers and advocates
- Work flow control - allocating files to caseworkers to carry on with case preparation, maintaining and updating the crown court Excel spreadsheet.
- Client Care - first point of contact for new client queries.
- Admin - letters to clients and other parties, filing, chasing and following up queries, maintaining undertaking register
- Billing - submitting file claims at the end of each case ensuring deadlines are met.
- Assistance with archiving of closed files.
Person Specification
- Razor sharp organisational skills.
- A supreme eye for detail and the ability to work within a high pressure, high workload environment.
- Be self confident, proactive and able to develop good working relationship with the in-house team of advocates and caseworkers, surrounding barristers' chambers and court staff.
- Confident and clear communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Be computer literate with experience of using Microsoft Office packages.
- Must be able to multi-task, think on your feet and prioritise workloads.
Experience within either a criminal solicitors office or a barristers' chambers are required, with salary reflecting experience and skills.
This position is full time with the working hours being Mondays - Fridays 09:00 17:00, with one hour for lunch.
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Jazz Personnel is an innovative, legal business support recruitment consultancy with an emphasis on quality of opportunity for candidates and excellence in our offer to clients.
With offices in the North East & South East, we listen and learn from our clients and candidates in order to continually develop and enhance our service delivery, responding to their needs. This commitment together with a relentless work ethic will ensure a progressive quality service which encompasses all of our work.
Integrity is vital to our operations and our services are open, transparent, detailed and designed to deliver an excellent customer experience with exceptional results.
Our passion is for delivering excellence in recruitment outcomes.
The go-to resource for legal business support talent in the UK.
We specialise in matching the best legal secretarial and business support staff with leading law firms across the country. People are a business’ most important asset, which is why we work closely with all of our candidates and clients to ensure a perfect fit.
Innovative
When it comes to business technology, we’re at the forefront of innovation, making our recruitment process simple, effective and streamlined. For this reason, we continue to invest in the latest recruitment software on the market, together with leading candidate sourcing, job posting and applicant tracking software. We also reach out and engage with our candidates, clients and followers on social media channels.
Knowledgeable
We share the latest news from the legal sector on our blog and social media, enabling candidates and clients to remain up-to-date with important developments and trends. Our consultants are some of the most experienced in the business, and always make informed decisions when it comes to placing people in workplaces.
Aspirational
As a fast-growing consultancy, we know a thing or two about ambition. We began our journey in 2016 with a clear vision; to provide a truly bespoke and personal service to our candidates and clients. Since then, we’ve worked tirelessly to build lasting relationships with law firms and to help further the careers of our candidates. Our reputation has enabled us to develop from a regional to a UK-wide recruitment agency.
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