Part Time Support Assistant - Manchester, United Kingdom - Thompsons Solicitors

Description

Description:

We are currently recruiting for a Support Assistant to be based in our Manchester office.

In this role, you'll be providing crucial support to one of our senior solicitors, ensuring their daily tasks run smoothly and efficiently.

Your responsibilities will involve arranging diaries, maintaining documentation, and ensuring everything is kept updated and in order.


Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting our employment lawyers and trade union clients so that they have access to information and resources quickly and easily.
• The role involves providing full administrative and executive support to one of our Professional Support Lawyers.
• Your role will be key in supporting our collaborative and cross functional knowledge team to work on the creation of contemporary learning and development interventions nationwide.
• You will be required to assist with arranging training events including online webinars and managing resources for our clients.

About You:

• Proficiency in MS Office (MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and Outlook).
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise work.
• Attention to detail and problemsolving skills.
• Able to work of own initiative and is always willing to learn.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Keen to learn with a "can do" attitude.

Benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme
• 5 days additional leave over Christmas (Xmas shut down)
• Permanent health insurance
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Organised sports and social club
• Annual travel and parking loans
• Financial assistance for professional development

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 193- the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 197- the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK and later in Europe (1993)
- the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 201- hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson and behalf of those injured by mesh

Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 23 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.

Thompsons Solicitors is a trading name of Thompsons Solicitors LLP.