Family Paralegal - Canterbury

Job Title:

Family Team Paralegal

Location:

Canterbury Office

Salary:

DOE

We are seeking a permanent, full-time Family Paralegal for our busy Canterbury office to join our expanding team.

Your Profile:

• Be embarking on or have completed either the LPC or BPTC and undertaken the family law elective Private Law Children
• Be able aim to demonstrate an interest in Family law
• Have strong organisational skills
• Have the ability to work under pressure

We would like the ideal candidate to:

• Provide the highest level of client care in the management of client matters
• Provide support to Fee Earners
• Build relationships with internal and external parties
• Ensure that files are managed effectively, creating letters or documents on the case management system
• Attending clients and taking notes
• Completing public funding applications
• Collating and redacting large documents for Court bundles where necessary
• Liaising with the local authorities, Police and medical professionals to request/receive documents. Liaising with Courts and experts

Working with us:

The salary for this position is dependent on experience.

We will offer ongoing training and support to develop your career as part of a strong and growing multi-office team.

Our offices are friendly, working entirely paperless with recent significant investment in modern IT to enable you to work proficiently.

We offer a great package of annual leave to ensure you get enough time away from work. Our annual leave for this role provides 23 days (plus bank holidays / Christmas and New Year). We review annual leave and increase with service.

Employee benefits with GTS:

• Pension Scheme with employer contribution.
• Administrative support.
• Firm laptop
• Ongoing training and development.
• Support from colleagues for case cover.
• Supportive supervision from mentors.
• Annual appraisals and salary reviews.
• Bi-annual parties for Summer and Christmas.
• Additional perks and benefits.
• Competitive training packages.

We have a dedicated in-bound telephony team to take calls and messages for our fee earners. Lawyers also have the benefit of dictation and support staff to assist in easing the pressure and enabling efficient working.

We are a multi-office, multi-service Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners firm recognised for excellence in a variety of legal fields.