Job title: Early Careers Assistant
Company: Irwin Mitchell
Job description: We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is ‘Expert Hand, Human Touch’ – something you’ll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.
We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.
We’re always looking to support our colleagues in working in a way that best works for them. Please speak to one of our Talent Acquisition Team to find out more information about our flexible working arrangements.
Your Role and What You’ll Be Doing
As an Early Careers Assistant, you’ll be part of a busy Early Careers support team who are required to deliver a seamless end-to-end support function for all apprentices, trainee CILEX Lawyers and trainee solicitors in the business, from recruitment to qualification. It is a diverse and interesting role in a friendly and experienced team.
- Booking and co-ordinating events such as law fairs, presentations, assessment centres, inductions, legal work placements and development in line with the cyclical nature of the early careers programmes.
- Building relationships with external stakeholders including training providers and education establishments to raise the profile of early careers opportunities at Irwin Mitchell.
- Screening of applications and video interviews for the various early careers programmes.
- First point of contact for external and internal queries via phone and the teams shared inbox. Providing an excellent candidate experience by ensuring queries are actioned efficiently.
- Scheduling meetings and training sessions.
- Managing the payment of invoices.
- Attending events supporting our social media strategy to engage with potential candidates and promote Irwin Mitchell’s early careers opportunities.
- Maintaining a relationship with our future trainees by organising events to ensure they are engaged with before they start.
- Providing administrative support to the wider Early Careers team
- Producing regular management information and other statistical information.
About You
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Demonstrative experience of handling and managing multiple projects and tasks to deadlines.
- Flexibility and responsiveness to changing demands and priorities.
- Ability to work independently and on own initiative.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ideally, you’ll have a working knowledge and understanding of the early careers pathways and experience of supporting with volume recruitment.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.
Our Benefits – What We Can Offer You
- Flexible working options – Make work fit around your life, not the other way around.
- 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays – You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too
- Generous and flexible pension schemes.
- Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
- Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported to work in a way that best suits you. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over how they wish to work subject to role and client requirements.
We have recently been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2023!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.
Additional Information
As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, existing employees, clients, partners and other stakeholders.
Depending on the role you apply for we may carry out checks that will establish your eligibility to work in the UK, and criminal record check and financial checks with a credit reference agency will also be undertaken.
The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.
Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
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Sheffield
Riverside East, 2 Millsands, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, S3 8DT
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We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them
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Sub-Department:
Early Careers
Sub-Division:
People Team
Company:
IM LLP
Vacancy Type:
Permanent
:
Sheffield
Salary:
Competitive
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Job date: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:22:33 GMT
