This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm (1-hour lunch) – flexibility will be considered
Holidays: 25 per year plus Bank Holidays (rising with length of service)
Benefits: contributory pension scheme, private healthcare and cash plan, group life policy
This is a great opportunity to join one of the largest barristers’ chambers in the country, and to commence or further develop a career as a barristers’ clerk. We are looking for someone to join at Level 1 (entry) or 2 (skilled) of our Clerks’ Job Family based in our Criminal Law team in Chester. The Job Family has 5 Levels, from Junior to Senior Clerk, offering excellent long term personal development and career progression.
You will work as part of a small friendly team based in our newly refurbished offices in the centre of Chester, focusing on supporting the criminal clerking team primarily and the family and civil team from time to time as needed.
This is not a role for someone who wants to practice law (e.g. as a solicitor or barrister), but for anyone interested in working in an administrative capacity in the legal sector in a vital role supporting the practice of barristers. We offer long term career prospects and development as a clerk.
As a member of our clerking team, you will help to provide a smooth and comprehensive clerking service to our members, including careful diary management, recording of briefs and instructions, checking court listings and dealing with email and telephone bookings and enquiries from clients. As your career with us progresses you will become more involved in fee negotiation, networking, barrister practice development and business development.
You’ll need to be able to demonstrate strong and professional written and spoken communication skills, the ability to follow processes carefully and with particular attention to detail, a polite and friendly manner, confidence with IT, a willingness to learn and the ability to work well with colleagues to deliver an excellent overall service.
Ideally you will have proven experience of working as an Office Assistant, Administrator or Clerk in a barristers’ chambers or similar legal or professional services environment. Essentially, you will have working experience of administration, confidence and experience in the use of office ICT and equipment and a flexible and team-oriented approach.
In return we offer a friendly and sociable working environment, a competitive salary and benefits package and, with over 40 clerking roles across our four sites, excellent opportunities for peer support and career development in the company.
The full job description is linked below. For an information discussion about either role, please contact Mark Robinson, Senior Clerk (Chester) on 01244 323070.
Closing Date: we encourage swift applications and will close when we have sufficient applications shortlisted for interview.
We positively encourage applications from all sections of the community and operate an equal opportunities approach.
The Company
The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.
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St Johns Buildings Ltd
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Chambers needs to process this data to take steps at your request prior to potentially entering into a contract with you. It may also need to further process your data in order to enter into a contract with you. In some cases, Chambers needs to process data to ensure that it is complying with its legal obligations, for example, it is required to check a successful applicant's eligibility to work in the UK before employment starts.
Chambers has a legitimate interest in processing personal data during the recruitment process and for keeping records of the process. Processing data from job applicants allows Chambers to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate's suitability for employment and make decisions about who to offer employment to.
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We seek a basic level DBS check for most roles because of the nature of the data that employees have access to. Higher level checks will only be performed for roles meeting the DBS eligibility criteria.
We have a policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders which is available on our website and from the Human Resources department.
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Our recruitment processes are not normally based solely on automated decision-making. However, we may for some vacancies use external web services which will carry out some automated decision-making based on whether you are able to confirm that you have certain specified skills, qualifications and/or experience which are deemed essential for the role. If that is the case and you are unable to respond affirmatively, because you do not meet the essential criteria, it is possible that your application may not be further progressed
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Your information may be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes: members of the HR and recruitment team, interviewers involved in the recruitment process, managers in the business area with a vacancy and IT staff if access to the data is necessary for the performance of their roles.
Chambers will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. Chambers will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you and with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) in order to administer relevant recruitment checks and procedures.
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How Chambers protects your data
Chambers takes the security of your data seriously. It has internal policies and controls in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by our employees in the proper performance of their duties.
Chambers’ Policies regarding Data Protection can be obtained from the Human Resources team (human.resources@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk)
How long Chambers retains your data
If your application for employment is unsuccessful, Chambers will hold your data on file for 12 months after the vacancy has closed. After this period, it will be fully anonymised. If, on request, you agree to allow Chambers to keep your personal data on file beyond this, Chambers may hold your data on file for a further time period which will be specified to you when requested, for consideration for future employment opportunities. At the end of that period or once you withdraw your consent, your data is deleted or destroyed.
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