Court Usher

Overview

Full time 37 hrs per week, Monday - Friday, long term temporary role, pay £12.71, location Staines, start date ASAP.

Key Responsibilities Administration

• Collecting and delivering files and bundles to the judiciary and clerks, ensuring necessary papers are available
• Providing support to colleagues & judiciary outside of court/hearing times
• General clerical work, including computer use and switchboard duties
• Filling out forms
• Operating recording equipment and maintaining records of hearing recordings
• Sorting and delivering lists of hearings for internal & external notice boards

Correspondence

• Completing standard forms where information is clearly defined
• Drafting acknowledgements, receipts, confirmations, court orders, warrants, etc.

Post Handling

• Opening, sorting, distributing and dispatching post as required
• Collecting and delivering post from appropriate offices

Monitoring Stock

• Ensuring court rooms are supplied with required forms and stationary
• Collecting and delivering stationary around the offices

Data Entry and Recording

• Checking accuracy and completeness against guidelines or proforma, including straightforward money handling (e.g., issuing jury payments, petty cash under instruction)

Operating Equipment

• Managing office and court equipment: computers, fax machines, scanners, photocopiers, switchboards, franking machines, messaging equipment, tape, and video recorders

Handling Telephone Calls

• Answering standard enquiries and passing messages to others

Arranging Meetings

• Preparing rooms for hearings, tribunals, trials, meetings, and clearing the court/hearing room at the end of the day
• Using electronic diaries

Reception of Parties to Court

• Assisting members of the public, judiciary, juries, solicitors and barristers, police, and external agencies
• Providing information related to proceedings, escorting court users in and out of the building, swearing oaths, etc.
• Calling people into court/hearing rooms in priority order, liaising with Court Clerks, Legal Advisers, and the Witness Service as necessary
• Answering face to face enquiries
• Keeping parties informed of changes (e.g., courtroom and hearing times)

Other Duties

The post holder is required to work in a flexible way and undertake any other duties reasonably requested by line management that are commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of this post.

Equal Opportunities

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and, as a Disability Confident Leader and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, guarantees a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer for veterans, spouses/partners of military personnel, and applicants with disabilities.