Careers

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Administrator Apprenticeship (Level 3)

Reports to: Reports to the Line Manager

Location: Myers & Co, Stoke-on-Trent

Overview:

To provide administrative, high quality support services across the firm and to all fee earners.

Deliver a professional, responsive, high-quality service to our clients ensuring full compliance with policies and procedures laid out by the Firm and by regulatory bodies.

To act as an ambassador for the Firm at all times, actively promoting its services.

Support:

Administrators will be supported in all aspects of the role by senior colleagues and the Line Manager for the team in which they work. Ongoing training and development will be provided to all Administrators, together with opportunities for furthering their careers.

Key Activities:

• The operation of the strong room (retrieving Wills and Deeds)
• The operation of the firms outgoing postal services and ensuring that all outgoing post is stamped or franked and dispatched or ready for collection each day
• To ensure the firms office stationery stock levels are maintained adequately, including placing orders and providing re-order stock information
• To comply with the firms requirements regarding individual performance and development, with the requirement to reflect on your quality of work and undertake the necessary training to stay up to date and competent
• To provide internal operational supporting, including but not limited to: fetching refreshments for the office, emptying the dishwasher, maintaining the coffee machines, clearing the meeting rooms after client meetings
• To support the firm to ensure that a high standard of client service is always delivered, including client hospitality within the office
• To provide reception cover on a daily basis
• To comply with any in house or external training requirements of the firm, including IT and compliance training

What’s in it for you:

•  Competitive basic salary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Referral bonus
• PayCare
• Pension plan
• Life insurance
• Access to training academy courses

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.

How to apply:

Please send your CV to our recruitment team: recruitment@mapdgroup.com

Corporate Solicitor   

Reports to: Head of Corporate

Location: Myers & Co, Stoke-on-Trent

Overview:

As a corporate solicitor you will run your own caseload and lead and support the growth and development of the corporate offering, as well as being actively involved in marketing the business as a whole.

To be successful in this role you will need to be self-motivated, commercially minded and have good people skills.

Key Qualifications:

• Qualified solicitor or equivalent.
• 4+ years post-qualification experience in corporate.

Key Activities:

• Caseload: Pro-actively manage your own varied corporate caseload, with support, including:
  • Mergers and acquisitions (share/asset purchases and sales, due diligence, disclosure and completion).
  • Company formations and structuring.
    • Shareholder matters.
    • Partnership agreements.
    • Corporate restructurings.
    • Corporate governance and compliance.
    • Joint ventures and strategic partnerships.
    • Corporate restructurings.
    • Commercial contracts support.
    • Company secretarial work.

  Communication: Communicate across the business to develop a cohesive, positive team environment. Requires strong diplomacy skills to build a consensus. Able to articulate issues and make clear recommendations to the Board.

  Business development: Proactively develop and grow a base of clients and referrers to build your own caseload and strengthen your professional network. Working with our marketing team to create content and be an active participant on professional networking platforms.

  Supervision: Use the financial and case management reporting to monitor, manage and predict your own financial performance.

  Technical advice: Develop, maintain and appropriately use your technical expertise.

  Client focus: Develop and foster a client-focussed culture where the client experience is as equally important to the legal expertise.

  Improve: To share knowledge and actively participate in the training and development of the department. Create an environment where complaints create opportunities to learn as opposed to an opportunity criticise or ignore. You will foster excellent relations with COLP and work in partnership to drive continuous improvement.

  Financial control: Monitor work in progress and ensure credit control procedures are followed. Work with our Finance team to forecast billing and workflow as accurately as possible.

Key Capabilities:

• Knowledgeable: Able to run a corporate caseload, with support.

• Commercial: Able to build and maintain a client base by providing advice clients need at an appropriate price.

• Team player: Able to build relationships across the business and across the MAPD Group.

• Organised: Able to organise yourself and the others you are working with and supporting.

• Practical: Able to listen, to manage expectations and deliver results.,

• Calm: Calm under pressure – people will come to you with what they consider to be a crisis.

• IT literate: Competent and comfortable with technology e.g. use of case management systems, Outlook, Excel and Word.

What’s in it for you:

•  Competitive basic salary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Referral bonus
• PayCare
• Pension plan
• Life insurance
• Hybrid / working from home one day per week (if Full Time) following successful completion of probation period
• Access to training academy courses

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.

How to apply:

Please send your CV to our recruitment team: recruitment@mapdgroup.com

Post Completions Assistant

Reports to: Reports to the Head of Department

Location: Myers & Co, Stoke-on-Trent

Hours: Full Time or Part Time (minimum 3 days)

Overview:

To manage Client matters within the residential conveyancing department based in our Burslem office.

Key skills:

• At least one year’s experience of post completion work, dealing with:
  • Lodging applications for registration
  • Dealing with requisitions
  • Checking and updating matters when the registration has been completed
  • Updating Portals
• Good communicator with the team and with clients.

Key activities:

• To manage a varied caseload of residential transactions from completion to registration including, leasehold, shared ownership, newbuild, right to buys
• Maintain a well-organised file management system including adherence to timescales and compliance
• Use Word, Outlook, Teams and our case management system (Proclaim) – training will be provided.
• Preparing and submitting AP1 Forms to HM Land Registry
• To maintain good relationships with clients, agents and referrers
• To deliver high quality customer service to clients
• To support and where necessary train junior members of staff
• Dealing with requisitions from the Land Registry
• Updating lender and government panels
• Reviewing accounts ledgers
• File closing

What’s in it for you:

•  Competitive basic salary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Referral bonus
• PayCare
• Pension plan
• Life insurance
• Hybrid / working from home one day per week (if Full Time) following successful completion of probation period
• Access to training academy courses

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.

How to apply:

Please send your CV to our recruitment team: recruitment@mapdgroup.com

Residential Conveyancing Legal Assistant

Reports to: Reports to the Head of Department

Location: Myers & Co, Stoke-on-Trent

Hours: Full Time or Part Time (minimum 3 days)

Overview:

To provide support and assistance to the conveyancing department and wider team members, completing all tasks to a high standard.

Deliver a professional, responsive, high-quality service to our clients ensuring full compliance with policies and procedures laid out by the Firm and by regulatory bodies.

To act as an ambassador for the Firm at all times, actively promoting its services.

Key skills:

• Some experience of conveyancing is preferred.
• Attention to detail.
• Good telephone manner when dealing with clients.
• Use Word, Outlook, Teams and our case management system (Proclaim) – training will be provided.

Key activities:

• Draft Contract packs and Transfers
• Deal with sale enquiries
• Review purchase contract packs and raise initial enquiries
• Check responses to enquiries on a purchase and report to clients
• Order searches, check and report to client on them
• Order redemption statements
• Review mortgages, report any issues to lenders and do a mortgage report
• Deal with ID/Source of funds and gifts
• Exchange contacts
• Liaise with clients, lenders and estate agents
• Set up completions and arrange what’s needed for post completion
• Deal with post completion formalities, including registration at the Land Registry
• Draft SDLT’s
• Update lender and help-to-buy panels
• Assist in sorting out any internal accounts queries
• Ensure that the firm’s policies and procedures and those laid out by regulatory bodies such as the Solicitors Regulation Authority are complied with fully at all times
• Contribute towards the effective management of risk by carrying out regular risk assessments on all matters, efficient file management and by providing excellent client care

Support:

Residential Property Legal Assistant will be supported in all aspects of the role by senior colleagues and the Line Manager for the team in which they work.

Ongoing training and development will be provided to all Residential Property Paralegals, together with opportunities for furthering their careers.

What’s in it for you:

• Competitive basic salary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Referral bonus
• Pension plan
• Life insurance
• Pay Care
• Hybrid / working from home one day per week (if Full Time) following successful completion of probation period
• Access to training academy courses

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.

How to apply:

Please send your CV to our recruitment team: recruitment@mapdgroup.com

Employment Solicitor

Reports to: Managing Director

Location: Myers & Co, Stoke-on-Trent

Overview: As an employment solicitor you will lead and support the growth and development of the employment offering, as well as being actively involved in marketing the business as a whole. You will run your own caseload.

To be successful in this role you will need to be self-motivated, commercially-minded and have good people skills.

Key Qualifications:

• Qualified solicitor or equivalent.
• 7+ years post-qualification experience in employment.

Key activities:

• Manage a varied employment caseload, including contentious and non-contentious work.
• Communicate across the business to develop a cohesive, positive team environment. Requires strong diplomacy skills to build a consensus. Able to articulate issues and make clear recommendations to the Board.
• Grow and maintain a client base by providing advice clients need at an appropriate price.
• Use the financial and case management reporting to monitor, manage and predict to make sure the department is fully and adequately resourced to deliver a quality service, identifying where you need more resource, where you can allocate resource differently, and where you can reduce resource if appropriate, and do this in a timely way to make sure our client service is not negatively impacted.
• Technical advice. Develop, maintain and appropriately use your technical expertise and the expertise across your team to help find answers to questions. Assist the corporate team with transactional work.
• Client focus. Develop and foster a client-focussed culture where the client experience is as equally important to the legal expertise.
• To share knowledge and actively participate in the training and development of your people. Create an environment where complaints create opportunities to learn as opposed to an opportunity criticise or ignore. You will foster excellent relations with COLP and work in partnership to drive continuous improvement.
• Financial control. Be responsible for formulating the department budget and to monitor work in progress and ensuring credit control procedures are followed. Work with our Finance team to forecast billing and workflow as accurately as possible.

Key capabilities:

• Knowledgeable: Able to run an employment caseload.
• Commercial: Able to build and maintain a client base by providing advice clients need at an appropriate price.
• Team player: Able to build relationships across the business and across the MAPD Group.
• Organised: Able to organise yourself and the others you are working with and supporting.
• Practical: Able to listen, to manage expectations and deliver results.,
• Calm: Calm under pressure – people will come to you with what they consider to be a crisis.
• IT literate : Competent and comfortable with technology e.g. use of case management systems, Outlook, Excel and Word .

What’s in it for you:

• Competitive basic salary
• 25 days holiday (Including bank holidays)
• Referral bonus
• Pension plan
• Life insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid / working from home
• Access to training academy courses

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.

How to apply:

Please send your CV to our recruitment team: recruitment@mapdgroup.com

Residential Conveyancing Fee Earner

Reporting: Reports to the Head of Department.

Office Location: Myers & Co, Burslem, Stoke on Trent

Overall Purpose: To provide support and assistance to the Department heads and wider team members, completing all tasks to a high standard.  To help in the running of the conveyancing department caseload and contribute to the team’s targets through personal work billed and/or assistance provided to team members.

Deliver a professional, responsive, high-quality service to our clients ensuring full compliance with policies and procedures laid out by the Firm and by regulatory bodies.

To act as an ambassador for the Firm at all times, actively promoting its services.

 Hours: Full time

Key Accountabilities:

Draft Contract packs

Deal with sale enquiries

Order redemption statements

Review purchase contract packs and raise initial enquiries

Check responses to enquiries on a purchase and report to clients

Set up completions and deal with completions

Order searches, check and report to client on them

Review mortgages, report any issues to lenders and do a mortgage report

Deal with gifts

Deal with ID/Source of funds

Exchange contacts

Draft SDLT’s

Draft Transfers

Liaise with clients, lenders and estate agents

Arrange what’s needed for post completion

To ensure that the firm’s policies and procedures and those laid out by regulatory bodies such as the Solicitors Regulation Authority are complied with fully at all times

To contribute towards the effective management of risk by carrying out regular risk assessments on all matters, efficient file management and by providing excellent client care

What’s in it for you

• Competitive basic salary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Referral bonus
• PayCare
• Pension plan
• Death in service
• Enhanced Maternity Policy
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid / working from home
• Unlimited access to training academy courses
• Reasonable targets to support a healthy work-life balance

Support: Residential Property Fee Earners will be supported in all aspects of the role by senior colleagues and the Line Manager for the team in which they work. Ongoing training and development will be provided to all Residential Property Fee Earners, together with opportunities for furthering their careers.

How to apply for our vacant careers

Interested applicants for the above positions can apply in confidence by forwarding a full CV and covering email to recruitment@mapdgroup.com.

If you have any questions about any of these roles, please get in touch for an informal chat.

Myers & Co is committed to fostering an accepting and inclusive environment for our people. We actively encourage those from underrepresented groups and diverse backgrounds to apply for these roles.