Job Description
What's on offer
Salary £Market Rate
Start Date: ASAP
Hours -9-5.15pm Mon-Thur and 9-5pm Friday with one hour for lunch.
Holidays : Standard plus extra bank holidays - Closed for Christmas.
Car Parking on Site.
Our well-established friendly client law firm based in Letchworth is now seeking a Receptionist for their front of house, where you will be the first point of contact for their clients.
The successful candidate will responsible for all reception and telephone answering duties, where you will be onboarding new clients, opening post and distributing it, carrying out administrative duties to include some photo copying etc. You will be meeting and greeting clients and be expected to carry out legal administrative duties including typing correspondence when required. You will be taking and passing on detailed telephone messages for all personnel in the firm. You will be keeping a diary for any scheduled meetings, whilst also dealing with deliveries to the office, collecting the morning post and taking it at end of day.
Ideally, our clients would prefer someone with previous experience of Reception duties within a law firm, have a good and confident telephone manner and the ability to stay calm at all times.
Experience with a Windows based telephone system would be helpful although induction will be provided.
If you are looking for a friendly law firm, where you can act on your own initiative, have discretion in dealing with confidential client and partnership matters, then this is the role for you. Preferably, this would suit someone who has worked in a similar position.
Skills/experience/qualifications required: Front of House experience. Telephone/Reception and Admin experience, with at least 50wpm typing speed.
Legals 4 Lawyers will try and respond to all applications within 48 hours. However, we have been experiencing high volumes of applications and if you have not heard from us within this period of time, unfortunately your application will not have been successful. Thank you and good luck.
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