Business Administrator Apprentice

General duties including (full training will be provided):

• Day-to-day typing of the office: Typing of all memos, letters, file notes, bills, statements, briefs, bail applications, affidavits and court forms
• Ensuring that the recording system in operation is adhered to and that there is not a backlog of recordings waiting to be typed
• Answering the telephone: Entering court dates into the Central Court Diary - maintaining and reviewing the Central Court Diary
• Preparing concluded and billed files for the archive system - retrieving from the filing cabinets files for each court session and each client interview
• Filing memos, correspondence, statements, depositions, proofs of evidence and other documents on appropriate files
• Organising files for court sessions and police stations
• Arranging appointments for clients to see individual solicitors
• Making urgent deliveries within the city centre
• Collections from and deliveries to the firm’s bank
• Photocopying, faxing, making up new files and filing
• Checking and sorting out e-mails regularly each day
• Preparing files for the archive system
• Seeing clients in reception area when necessary
• Any other duties which from time to time are required by the firm

Skills Knowledge and Experience:

• Basic typing qualifications or at least two years’ experience typing speed of at least 70 words per minute
• Helpfulness, politeness and punctuality
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to show initiative
• Self-motivated
• Ability to communicate orally with confidence and sensitivity
• Ability to work on own and as part of a team
• Conscientious in task completion

Training will be at Doncaster College where you will access a wide range of facilities on offer. Day release - You will undertake the level 3 Business Administration Apprenticeship standard. 

You will undertake both on and off the job training by a team of industry-qualified professionals to give you the best skills, knowledge, and experience.

We need to ask all applicants whether they have any relevant criminal convictions and or pending investigation as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Relevant meaning offences against a person, whether violent or sexual, offences involving drugs or controlled substances, or theft. A declaration of a relevant Criminal Conviction will result in a Risk Assessment being carried out to determine whether the applicant poses a risk to the welfare or safety of others. This does not include warnings, cautions, reprimands and (for example) speeding fines/points.  

A YES ANSWER DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY EXCLUDE YOUR APPLICATION.