Legal Administrator - Estate Planning

Legal Administrator - Estate Planning
£21,255 plus excellent benefits including annual bonus, 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays), and discounts (Work Level 6C)
Full time, 37.5 hours, Monday-Friday
Bristol, BS32 4SD – office based

We’re looking for enthusiastic legal administrators to join our estate planning team at Co-op Legal Services.

As a legal administrator, you’ll support case handlers and the wider team with a variety of administrative tasks, and most importantly looking after our clients. Whilst you don’t need any legal experience for this role, you’ll gain great exposure to a variety of legal work. So, if you have the skills we’re looking for, we can offer you the opportunity to grow and develop in an ethical legal business.

What you’ll do:

• support the case handlers with a variety of client and third-party communications and administrative work
• taking a number of inbound calls building positive relationships and dealing with any issues which may arise
• work effectively from a task list, making sure that the task list is well maintained, scheduling follow-up tasks with both third parties and internal partners
• complete a variety of ad-hoc requests to meet the needs of the team which may include outbound calls to customers and / or third parties
• answer email queries via a shared inbox
• support the development and implementation of any system or process changes

This role would suit people who have

• some previous administration experience
• great communication skills with the confidence to speak to clients on the phone
• excellent organisation skills with the ability to prioritise a varied workload
• a high level of attention to detail

Why Co-op?

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We’re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we’ll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We’ll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

If you’re successful in your application, we’ll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include an SRA check, credit checks, and a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. Please note Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.