Welfare Paralegal
- Employer
- Realm Recruit
- Location
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £15000 - £25000 per annum
- Closing date
- 20 Jul 2017
- Reference
- KR-47
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- Practice area
- Social welfare/Benefits
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- Not applicable
- Position
- Legal executive, Paralegal
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
PQE / Experience: Legal Executive, Paralegal, Fee Earner, Case Worker, Claims Handler
Commutable from: Doncaster, Sheffield, Rotherham, Chesterfield, Barnsley
Salary: Circa £20,000-£25,000 (dependent upon experience) + excellent benefits including contrib. pension, 25 days holiday, health cash plan etc.
The company
This national firm has a longstanding commitment to personal legal services and is a market leader in a number of private client facing practice areas. They pride themselves on having fostered a fantastic working environment in all of their UK offices. A top Legal 500 recognised Private Client team in the Yorkshire market.
The opportunity
As a Welfare Paralegal you will work collaboratively as part of a team to provide basic welfare benefits advice and comprehensive administrative support to the team thereby assisting in the delivery of a quality service to our clients.
Responsibilities include:
- Liaising with clients, colleagues across the group and external stakeholders with regard to Welfare Benefit
- Diary management, telephone enquiries, record keeping and filing.
- Keeping knowledge up to date to ensure advice provided is in line with current legislation. Attend training pertinent to the post.
- Working closely with Welfare Benefit team members to provide support where appropriate. This may require, from time to time, working flexibly in order to meet deadlines or supporting colleagues in the Court of Protection or other departments.
- Producing correspondence and documentation
The particulars
Ideal candidate criteria:
- Experience in running your own caseload
- Experience of working in a law firm or welfare department. Or personal experience of disability claims or knowledge.
- A good range of GCSE’s / O’ levels at grade C or above to include Maths and English, or NVQ Level 2, and/or A Levels / BTEC or a degree.
The next step:
To register your interest in this Welfare Paralegal vacancy, select the ‘APPLY NOW’ option. Alternatively email Kelly at Realm Recruit.
Know someone else who might be suitable for the role? If so, get in touch – we offer up to £500 in vouchers for successful referrals.
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Company
We are Realm - the most specialised legal attraction, retention and recruitment consultancy, helping to develop legal careers and sustainably grow law firms by matching the right lawyers with the right firms through our refreshing approach to legal recruitment.
We know that when this happens, lawyers are happier, more motivated and enjoy better careers, while law firms are more likely to reach their growth aims.
We’re incomparably specialist: Lawyers specialise in one area to become true experts in their field – and our recruiters are no different. With each of our consultants covering just one practice area in a focused region, we know pretty much every lawyer you might want to recruit and every law firm you might want to join. We build close, long-term relationships with our engaged communities of lawyers and are therefore better able to connect the right people to the right firms.
We’re consultative: We’re not just here for lawyers when they are looking to move. We partner with legal professionals throughout their careers and provide advice on everything from salary benchmarking to helping you smash an upcoming appraisal.
We are brand ambassadors: We are your megaphone in the legal talent market. Whether by representing a lawyer in their search for a new opportunity or utilising our in-house marketing team to help a law firm build their employer brand, we're experts in building a presence and helping the right lawyers and law firms find each other.
- Website
- https://www.realmrecruit.com/
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 3300 24 56 06
- Location
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Charter House
Woodlands Road
Altrincham
Cheshire
WA14 1HF
United Kingdom
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