Paralegal

Are you a law graduate looking for training and development with a view to achieving qualified status as a Chartered Legal Executive and then Solicitor at the end of your training period?

WorkNest is looking for Paralegals to join our Employment Law Team based in Chester.

What we’re looking for:

• Possession of a good standard law degree and, ideally, a completed LPC
• Work in a legal environment or previous paralegal experience preferable but not essential
• Working knowledge of basic legal principles
• Interest in developing a knowledge of employment law
• Efficient working in line with a largely fixed fee model
• Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines whilst maintaining high standards of service
• Evidence of commercial awareness and high standards of client care
• Evidence of a good level of achievement of business objectives and client satisfaction
• Behaviours aligned with WorkNest values
• Team player

What you’ll be doing:

• During the period of the training, you will provide high quality, pragmatic and efficient advice and assistance to WorkNest’s colleagues initially before progressing to deal directly with clients. To provide brilliant service as a junior member of our advisory, litigation or contracts and handbook teams.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• To draft, using template documents and following the instructions of the individual adviser, contracts, handbooks and a range of letters and documents for clients.
• To assist colleagues in the preparation of ET cases.
• To assist colleagues by researching legal points
• In due course to provide basic telephone and email advice direct to clients on basic employment law queries, subject to suitable supervision.
• To make sure all advice to clients is timely, efficient, accurate, practical, and commercial.
• To adhere to WorkNest’s requirements and relevant professional standards in dealings with clients.
• To undertake conscientiously all training to ensure that learning and development needs are met.
• To support the team as directed enabling them to provide high quality advice and legally compliant documentation to clients to ensure we provide the best fixed fee legal & ER advisory service in the UK
• Any other duties as reasonably requested by your line manager to meet the needs of the business.

Where you’ll be working:

• The position will be based in our Aldford, Chester office.

What’s in it for you

£23,400 per annum and an attractive company benefits package, including:

• Health Cash plan
• Life Assurance
• Up to £15 per month fitness subsidence
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Auto Enrolment Pension contributions after 3 months service
• Birthday Day off
• VITO Days – up to 2 days per holiday year paid volunteering
• Free Will writing service
• EAP & Wellbeing services

Who we are

WorkNest is part of the GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) division within Marlowe PLC. We are a powerhouse of employment law, HR and health and safety support services, weaving pragmatic advice with powerful technology platforms. We have experienced exceptional growth over the last 24 months, fuelled by the acquisition of several leading business services groups, including: Law at Work, Ellis Whittam, Youmanage, esphr, HRSP, HR Solutions and Vista.

Our purpose is to advance the way people work. We achieve this by helping employers proactively overcome their employment, safety, and wellbeing challenges, working alongside internal teams, or providing a fully outsourced solution. In fact, over 40,000 UK employers (in 45 vertical sectors) now seek our help on some of their most sensitive issues. We like to think that this is due to our focus on high quality, pragmatic and professional advice and service.

Up for the challenge?

If you share our values of Brilliant Service, Optimism, Integrity and One Team, please use the purple ‘apply now’ button to begin your application. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and covering letter outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this post.

WorkNest is committed to creating a culture of Inclusion?and ensuring that everyone – job applicants, clients, colleagues, and anyone else we deal with – is treated fairly and with respect. We continuously review our policies and processes to support our aim to create a diverse team, however, please speak to our Talent and Recruitment specialist if there are any adjustments, we need to make to ensure, a genuine equality of opportunity.

Closing date: 25th May 2024

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