Conveyancing Assistant

Join our leading UK Law firm as a Conveyancing Assistant in Oxford!

Are you an experienced Legal Administrator in Conveyancing, based in Oxford, and eager to advance your career? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our friendly and supportive Plot Sales team. If this sounds like your ideal role, we’d love to hear from you!  Our Conveyancing Assistants are vital to our team, efficiently managing caseloads and providing crucial administrative support to ensure smooth operations. This role offers a fantastic chance to learn new skills and develop your career in a dynamic and challenging sector.

What you will do

As a Conveyancing Assistant, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our Conveyancing team with both routine and complex administrative tasks. Collaborating closely with our Conveyancers and Legal Administrators, you will ensure the delivery of exceptional service. Your responsibilities will include amending and collating letters with enclosures, adhering to deadlines, and securing appropriate signoffs from relevant Lawyers. Additionally, you will handle various post-completion tasks, progressively taking on more responsibility for deadlines.  You will engage with clients, stakeholders, and third parties, promptly addressing correspondence, calls, and emails. Working alongside Matter Lawyers, the Team Manager, and members of the wider Real Estate Group, this role offers ample opportunities for growth and development into more complex tasks.

What we're looking for

Our team's success has been underpinned by the success of all our employees. We are looking for enthusiastic, passionate, and driven people to join us and in return we will support you and your career development through ongoing comprehensive training.

• Experience working within Conveyancing and an understanding of Conveyancing procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with great attention to detail.
• Capability to develop and maintain strong client relationships.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to complete tasks quickly and accurately, meeting the needs of assigned lawyers.
• Commitment to working within a quality standard environment.
• Strong IT skills with the ability to quickly learn new systems.
• Desire to work in an interesting, fast-paced, and collaborative environment.

About the team

Our Conveyancing Services team spans a multitude of different specialisms. Each team have specific levels of support and technical experience, and each of our Conveyancers take ownership of their caseloads, assisting their clients through the drafting of relevant documents and ensuring compliance to enable housing transactions to go through smoothly – we really strive to get to know our clients and take the responsibility of our instructions seriously. But don't worry, not only do you get to feel that you're really making a difference individually to your clients and our business, but you will also have the backing of a 50 employee + size team to help you along the way.  We are an accredited member of the Conveyancing Quality Scheme and have been appointed to over 60 of the major UK lending panels. Our continued success has led to us receiving accolades such as the best firm in our region at the ESTA Conveyancing awards 2019.

Pre-employment screening

Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected] 

Eligibility to work in the UK

Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying and keep up to date with any legal developments.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, private medical insurance, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters. Take a look here to find out more about Our benefits | Foot Anstey.

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions.  By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from seven locations with offices in Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London. 

Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Talent Development programme and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021.  We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us.  As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.