Conveyancing Assistant

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Conveyancing Assistant to join my clients team in their Otley, West Yorkshire offices.

This role will require someone capable of handling specific steps in residential property matters. It will be a transactional role, with responsibility lying with the solicitor in charge, who will delegate tasks as required. These will include file opening, searching, and various steps pre- and post-completion.

Main Duties:

• To provide support and assist the fee earner in the conveyancing department.
• Typing from digital dictation (Voicepower DPA), quickly and accurately and prioritising where required and/or noted
• Correcting the fee earner’s obvious mistakes and checking where in any doubt
• Composing and producing routine correspondence and documents using the firm’s Case Management System (P4W TFB) and assisting in ongoing developments of that system
• Opening new files and matters and send out fee estimate letters
• Scan client ID & other documents and update the matter file
• Send out Property searches
• Obtain documents from Land Registry, office copy entries.
• Complete registration post completion with Land Registry
• File SDLT return and arrange payment of SDLT tax
• File any deeds and document in storage accurately
• Assisting with the workload of others in the conveyancing team where time allows and/or priorities and/or holiday periods require.

Benefits:

• Pension Contribution
• Flexible Working
• Dependant leave
• 34/35 days annual holiday - 23 Days holiday take as you choose. Christmas closure for a week which is an additional 3 to 4 days holiday and the 8 statutory bank holidays.
• Regular staff social events

Please Note: Due to the number of applications we receive we may be unable to respond to every application directly.

If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed