AddressAbout the role
A vacancy has arisen for an experienced, quality and customer focused receptionist working within a fast paced office environment. You will be working within the Business Support Services Team, who provide excellent administrative support to our lawyers.
Main responsibilities:
- Greeting clients, visitors, contractors and staff in line with Bevan Brittan standards
- Answering phones in a prompt and professional manner, routing calls as necessary to the relevant person
- Managing meeting room bookings in both internal client rooms and external venues
- Ensuring meeting rooms are cleared and ready for the next meeting
- Managing train ticket and taxi requests
- Providing support to the facilities team
- Supporting administrative tasks, including conflict searching and matter opening
- Compiling electronic bundles for court and experts
- General office administrative duties including copying, scanning etc.
The ideal candidate
The ideal applicant will possess the following skills:
- Quality and customer service driven, with a concern for accuracy and an eye for detail
- Previous experience in an administrative role is essential. Ideally, this would be within a professional services environment
- IT literate with a working knowledge of Word, Outlook and Excel
- Able to work to deadlines and prioritise own workload effectively
- Enthusiastic, pro-active and flexible. Willing to contribute and support others as part of a team
- Confident verbal and written communication skills
- Additionally, reprographics, courier and outgoing mail experience are also desirable skills as there may be times where you will be called upon to help the onsite reprographics team
About the firm
Bevan Brittan is a UK-Top 100 commercial law firm providing a comprehensive range of legal services from offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and London.
The firm advises businesses across construction, energy & resource management, higher education and financial services, complementing the firm's market leadership within housing, local government and health & social care.
We currently employ over 600 people, including over 90 Partners, and our award-winning teams provide construction, commercial, corporate, property, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal advice.
Bevan Brittan is named among 'The Times Best Law Firms 2023' and has recently either won or been shortlisted for a number of prestigious awards.
We are driven by our 4 values: Relationships, Results, Reputation and Responsible. These give us a sense of purpose and ensure we always work collaboratively with clients and colleagues, continually improve, make the right choices and act with integrity.
Bevan Brittan is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
We are proud to be a Responsible Business
Work-life balance
Where possible, we want to offer all Bevan Brittan people flexibility to work their week in a way that suits them - we operate a hybrid working model based on the needs of our clients, teams and that of the individual. Our core business hours are 9am - 5:15pm Monday to Friday, however we are open to individuals working more flexibly around those times and would welcome a conversation with you if you have any questions.
We offer a substantial benefits package to all employees including:
- A minimum of 25 days holiday (plus the option to buy up to an additional 5 days)
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Generous pension scheme
- Private medical insurance through Vitality
- Biennial private health assessment through Nuffield Health
- Life assurance
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
Responsible business
To us, being a responsible business is second nature; a core part of Bevan Brittan's identity, running through our culture and embodied by the clients we serve. We want to demonstrate our commitment to these causes through actions rather than words; colleagues from across the firm are already heavily involved, living and breathing the four pillars of our Responsible Business strategy:
- Community Engagement - Each lawyer has the opportunity to undertake pro bono legal work for local charities and not-for-profit organisations. We also play an active role through our local office communities, in 2022 we fundraised and donated a total of £80,000 to our four regional office charities, with each charity receiving £20,000 to help fund their vital services.
- Environmental Sustainability - Bevan Brittan is proudly a carbon neutral firm. We have achieved the UN's Climate Neutral Now accreditation and our environmental sustainability plan is focused on achieving our net zero carbon target.
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - We have a strong and vibrant diversity programme that gives colleagues across the firm an opportunity to take part, led by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee and supported by our Ambassadors, who drive engagement in our strategy and raise awareness across the firm.
- Wellbeing - We are proud of our open culture, where colleagues feel empowered to speak openly about physical and mental health issues and to seek out support when needed. We have trained 21 colleagues across the firm as Mental Health First Aiders and established a programme of initiatives including our informal 'coffee with' scheme.
Collectively, these four pillars ensure we look after our colleagues' wellbeing; offer an environment in which all can progress on merit, regardless of personal circumstances or background; give something back to the communities in which we work; and protect the environment.
