Legal PA - Health and Care

Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors.

Supported by our valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we're part of.

Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2023/24 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for an eleventh consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.

Looking to the future, we're targeting ambitious growth and success. And we're looking for the best people to be part of it.

Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced PA to provide administrative support to our lawyers in our Health & Care team. This is a varied role, which will involve taking an active interest in our client requirements to provide an exceptional business support service to both our lawyers and clients.

Main responsibilities:

• Be involved in all aspects of the management and execution of our lawyers' day to day, and play a key role in the care of our clients
• Anticipate and manage all areas of diary management
• Take internal and external telephone queries and respond appropriately
• Monitor incoming post and emails and handle appropriately
• Arrange meetings, book conference rooms, organise refreshments and liaise with internal and external attendees
• Assist with the billing and credit control process
• Request cheques and bank transfers
• Organise travel arrangements including booking transport, hotels etc
• Arrange and carry out administrative support such as photocopying, printing, sending letters, organising couriers and data entry
• Arrange general filing requirements and electronic record keeping
• Support marketing activities such as pitch and presentation preparation
• Liaise with Business Development and Marketing colleagues on arrangements for events and producing marketing material

What we are looking for from you

The ideal applicant will possess the following skills:

• Previous experience in an administrative role is essential. Ideally, this would be within a professional services or legal environment
• Previous experience as a Personal Assistant
• Must have a good working knowledge of Land Registry, property searches and scheduling of deeds.
• IT literate with a working knowledge of Word, Outlook and Excel
• Able to work to deadlines and prioritise own workload effectively
• Enthusiastic, pro-active and flexible.
• Willing to contribute and support others as part of a team
• Confident verbal and written communication skills

Supported to be your best

Hybrid working

We operate a hybrid working model based on the needs of our clients, teams and people. Our core business hours are 9am - 5:15pm Monday to Friday, but we're open to our people working more flexibly around those times and welcome a conversation with you if you have any questions about this. We try to offer you the flexibility to work your week in a way that suits you.

Learning, Development & Progression

We're committed to supporting your professional and personal development needs.This means that we offer a range of tailored training courses and you will have lots of opportunity to learn from those around you. We actively encourage progression and this is reflected in our annual review and promotion processes. You will be supported by your line manager to achieve your full potential.

Wellbeing

As a Bevan Brittan employee, you'll have access to a variety of services that support your wellbeing. We've pledged our commitment to The Mindful Business Charter and lots of our people contribute to our Wellbeing Responsible Business strand, which organises an annual calendar of wellbeing events and initiatives.

Benefits

• A minimum of 25 days holiday (plus the option to buy up to an additional 5 days)
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Generous pension scheme
• Private medical insurance through Vitality
• Biennial private health assessment through Nuffield Health
• Life assurance
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to work scheme