Trainee Secretary / Receptionist

Job Title: Trainee Secretary / Receptionist

Location: Central London

Salary: £25,000 + Good Benefits

Prestigious law firm based in Central London are looking for a trainee legal secretary to join their busy support team and provide secretarial support, administration and front of house support. This is an exceptionally friendly and supportive environment and would be ideal if you are looking for your first role in a City firm. The firm provides excellent training and mentoring for you to develop your skills. They are initially looking for someone to provide reception support but as you gain in confidence and skills, they are looking to train the successful candidate up to be legal secretary / PA. This will be a varied role but duties will include:

• Meeting and greeting clients and all visitors, managing meeting room bookings and the presentation of meeting rooms

• Providing administration support to the Legal Support team (i.e. filing, photocopying, scanning, collating bundles, archiving etc.)
• Providing basic secretarial support to the Legal Support team to assist with overflow typing and holidays
• Dealing with incoming and outgoing post
• Meeting and greeting clients and visitors
• Maintaining stationary levels
• Ensuring meeting rooms are appropriately equipped for meetings (to include liaising with IT support where video link and/or laptop required)

It is essential you are educated to A ‘levels or equivalent and/or someone who has completed a legal secretarial course. Although 6 – 12 months administration experience would be a huge advantage, they are also happy to train a college leaver. Excellent communication skills and a professional and enthusiastic manner are also a must. This is a fantastic opportunity to start your career in a law firm and it’s a really friendly environment with a great team spirit.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details