Background
We currently have an opportunity for a Paralegal to join our award-winning Court of Protection department.
Our Court of Protection department specialises in supporting brain injury survivors with the administration of their property and financial affairs, to include decision making within the remit of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Our Court of Protection teams work closely with clients and their families to ensure that the needs of each client are being met, whilst ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Court and the Office of the Public Guardian. We take pride in ensuring that our clients are empowered to make their own decisions wherever possible, and when our input is required, we ensure that all decisions made on behalf of our clients are made in their best interests.
The role
Duties will include:
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Assisting with Court of Protection applications
- Dealing with financial aspects of individual’s lives, to include assisting with the long-term investment of compensation awards.
- Administering deputyship bank accounts on behalf of clients
- Record keeping
- Instructing and liaising with professionals to support our clients, including Case Managers and Therapists
- Communicating effectively with clients, their families and healthcare professionals
- Liaising with the client and other departments within the firm in relation to conveyancing, employment, private client, and family matters
- Assisting in the administration of personal injury trusts and supporting the trustees in decisions made for the beneficiaries.
Skills and Qualifications
The role will involve communication with clients via the telephone and in person; therefore, excellent interpersonal skills are essential along with a good telephone manner. You might be expected to travel to meet clients and their families.
The successful candidate will be organised, responsible and a good team player.
This role would ideally suit law graduates or those with similar academic achievements. Full training will be provided.
Life at Hugh James
We never shy away from a challenge
We are a leading, full-service UK law firm. Since our beginning, we have been led by the things that matter. We care about fighting for the right outcomes. Solving the seemingly unsolvable. Protecting businesses, individuals and livelihoods. Supporting our people, our communities. Safeguarding our planet. Looking for a way forward? At Hugh James, challenges of all sizes are readily accepted.
The Hugh James difference
Our law firm has always been guided by the idea that self-belief is just as important as skillset. Our pursuit of righting wrongs and protecting what’s important keeps us driving forwards. It’s in our roots! We won’t stop until we find the answers; the outcomes that are needed.
We are focused on the work we do, the business we run, and our culture. Our entrepreneurial spirit has taken us from humble beginnings to a strong presence across the UK with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Plymouth – servicing clients from businesses, individuals and banks to public sector organisations, property companies, education establishments and utilities providers. Our collegiate culture, our forward-looking ethos, our values serve to make us bigger, better, bolder than ever before.
A positive force in the community
Our work with charities on a local and national level plays a huge part in our day-to-day lives. We work with a large range of charities, some of which we support through fundraising, donations, volunteering and others we partner with where our areas of work cross paths. Staff, clients everyone comes together through a shared passion to do good in the community and support those in need.
Some of our benefits on offer include:
Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Two Corporate Social Responsibility days
Birthday day off
Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary
Auto enrolment pension scheme
Hybrid working
Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts for local businesses
Professional fees paid (subject to requirement for your role)
Employee recruitment incentive scheme
Hugh James is an equal opportunities and disability confident committed employer.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity. If you have questions, please contact Stephanie Williams.
We reserve the right to close our vacancies earlier than the given deadline if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
