Description
Thompsons Solicitors is seeking an experienced and efficient Office Administrator to support the Regional Managing Partner, Regional Managers, and wider office teams. This is a key role ensuring smooth day-to-day operations across business and administrative functions.
Key Responsibilities...
This role is central to ensuring the smooth operation of our branch by overseeing business processes, coordinating office and property services. You’ll manage office budgets, authorise expenses and invoices, maintain client and employee records, and assist with recruitment and onboarding.
As the first point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, you'll champion administrative best practice and support day-to-day office needs including health and safety compliance. You’ll also lead and supervise a team of Administrative Assistants, offering guidance and performance support.
Who we are looking for...
We're seeking someone with excellent communication and organisational skills, strong IT proficiency, and a proactive, client-focused approach. You should be adaptable, discreet, and confident managing a wide range of responsibilities independently and collaboratively. An understanding of the Trade Union movement is a welcome advantage.
This Grade 3 role offers the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to a values-driven legal practice and help empower the teams that fight for working people across the UK. If you’re ready to make a real impact in a trusted and respected firm, we’d love to hear from you.
What we offer...
* Contributory pension scheme
* 5 days additional leave over Christmas
* Permanent health insurance
* Healthcare Cash Plan (Medicash)
* Life assurance
* 23 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Cycle to work scheme
* Subsidised sports and social club
* Annual travel and parking loans
* Financial assistance for professional development
At Thompsons, we don’t just talk about justice—we deliver it. We’ve been consistently recognised in The Times’ Best Law Firms and are proud to be the UK’s most experienced trade union, claimant, and employment rights law firm.
You’ll be part of a friendly, supportive environment where your career can thrive. We offer regular supervision, feedback, and development opportunities to help you grow into a leader in the field.
About Thompsons Solicitors
For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.
Thompsons ran:
* the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
* the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
* the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
* the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
* hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).
Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.
Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.
We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.
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Thompsons Solicitors is a trading name of Thompsons Solicitors LLP.