This role is to work alongside our Senior Conveyancing Executive and grow the Residential Property offering in this location.
You will have daily support from the Residential Partner and wider team of 35. You will have a Legal Assistant, Secretarial and Post Exchange support along with the Client Enquiries team to take the initial enquiry and business support to open the matter.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with Residential Property experience to help further develop the busy department and with support expand on our great reputation.
You’ll be joining a well-established Residential Property team that handles a broad spectrum of matters including sales and purchases, leasehold and freehold transactions, and complex title issues. The team works with a diverse client base spanning the full range of residential property types.
Day to Day
You will be handling a varied caseload that will encompass the full cycle of conveyancing matters including sales, purchases, re-mortgages on freehold and leasehold property, transfers of equity, transfers of part, property finance work, deeds of easement and release and small development sales.
This role offers the chance to take on meaningful responsibility, contribute to client development, and support all within a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.
This is an exciting time to join Holmes & Hills. Having invested a significant amount of funding and effort in our growth over the last 5 years, we are now in a strong position to utilise that growth in developing our service offering further and increasing the profitability of the firm. This role has real potential to be part of some exciting times ahead for the Firm.
WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED?
Ideally you will be a qualified Solicitor, Charted Legal Executive or Licenced Conveyancer with experience (at least 1 years PQE) in residential property law, or a competent Paralegal looking to take the next step into full fee earning, with conveyancing experience having ideally been gained at a reputable regional or national firm. You should have had experience in starting to manage your own caseload and delivering high-quality service to clients.
We are particularly interested in candidates with the following range of expertise:
- Purchases and sales
- Transfers of equity
- Re-mortgages
Our employees are encouraged to be involved in business development and marketing, so the successful candidate must be commercially aware and possess excellent relationship building and communication skills.
The right candidate will have excellent client care skills and be able to take a flexible approach to meeting clients’ expectations of client contact. They must be confident and competent in technical aspects of Residential Property and Land Law and not just the process itself.
WHAT SKILLS SHOULD I HAVE?
- Exceptional communication skills
- Self-motivated and results orientated
- Commercially aware and client focused
- Team player
- Flexible approach to client service
- Competitive salary and bonus scheme.
- Supportive, relaxed and flexible work environment in an experienced and growing team.
- 28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
- Medicash after 1 years’ service at an enhanced level
- Life Insurance
- EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services including virtual GP access 24/7
- Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave
- Company sick pay
- Cycle scheme
We offer a benefits package that we believe gives all of our colleagues a bit of everything but in addition to these material benefits, we also offer the opportunity to work for a progressive, modern and inspiring law firm in a regional area that brings with it, the benefit of a good work/life balance, flexibility and family focussed and with genuine opportunity to progress and develop evidenced by our commitment to our Career Pathway and Training Pathway.
