Conveyancing Assistant in Harrogate

Location: Harrogate

Salary: £23,000 to £28,000

Experience: Previous experience supporting a residential conveyancing team.

If you’re an organised, confident Conveyancing Assistant who enjoys keeping matters moving and supporting a busy team, this is a great opportunity to join a well-established Residential team in Harrogate. Our client is looking for a Conveyancing Assistant to provide cost-effective support to the Team Leader and fee earners within the Residential department. You’ll play a key role in the day-to-day running of matters, helping ensure clients receive a smooth, professional service from start to finish.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Supporting the Team Leader and fee earners with day-to-day conveyancing administration and client communication.
• Undertaking supervised fee earning tasks, including:
• File creation
• Generating client care correspondence
• Completing client questionnaires
• Handling routine client enquiries and communications wherever possible
• Collating matter start and matter completion data
• Deputising for the designated fee earner in their absence, escalating urgent issues to a senior fee earner as needed
• Helping ensure matters progress efficiently, with clients kept updated on progress and costs
• Maintaining high standards of client care in a professional, pleasant manner
• Ensuring confidentiality and security of client and firm information
• Working in line with the firm’s procedures, quality standards and compliance requirements
• Supporting marketing and business development activity alongside the Head of Department
• Maintaining clear communication with colleagues and building good working relationships externally

What We’re Looking For:

• Previous experience supporting a residential conveyancing team (or similar legal support role)
• Confident dealing with routine client enquiries in a professional way
• Strong organisation skills, with good diary management and attention to detail
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Comfortable working to procedures and quality standards
• A pleasant but assertive manner, with tact and resilience
• Competent using case management systems and standard office IT

What’s On Offer:

• 25 days’ holiday plus your birthday off
• Hybrid working once you’ve passed probation
• Continuous professional development, including structured induction, in-house training and access to external courses
• Wellbeing Hours (7 hours annually for appointments or time needed out of work)
• Health Cash Plan (including 24-hour advice line and counselling access)
• Group life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Salary exchange (salary sacrifice) pension scheme
• YuLife
• Perkbox (retail discounts plus wellbeing content)
• Ability to buy up to 5 additional days’ holiday per year
• Option to carry up to 3 days’ holiday into the next holiday year
• Long service awards
• Free refreshments in the office (tea, coffee and weekly fruit delivery)
• Social events organised through a social committee (including annual Christmas party and summer BBQ)
• Staff legal benefits, including:
• Residential purchase and/or sale for your sole/main residence undertaken at no cost (excluding expenses)
• Standard Will prepared at no charge (excluding IHT planning)
• Discounted legal services for immediate family

Working Arrangements:

Full-time, permanent role based in Harrogate. Hybrid working available once probation is passed.

Next Steps:

Apply online or send your CV to lee.hawthorne-finch@h-fts.com or call 0333 996 2882 for more information. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. We will always obtain your express permission before sharing your details with our client.