Legal Administrator; Hybrid

Legal Administrator (Hybrid) needed in Exeter, £13.33ph PAYE - Reference: 371421

Monday & Wednesday

The principal responsibility of the Legal Administrator is to provide a comprehensive administrative service to the Joint Legal Services Department. This support may cover, in varying proportions, all or some of the key responsibilities set out below or all of the following activities, along with other administrative support tasks in keeping with the grade of the role.

In particular to:

• Provide dedicated support to the Head of Legal Services or Senior Legal Advisors in the form of diary management ensuring work is co-ordinated and prioritised, and other administrative activity.
• Provide a high quality customer focussed approach, as the first point of contact for members of the Joint Legal Services Department.
• Liaise with the wider organisation and partner agencies on behalf of members of the Joint Legal Services Department.
• Undertake responsibilities for the Practice Manager in their absence with limited or no supervision, such as reviewing and allocating new work received into the department which requires specialist knowledge of the team and work types.
• To collate, and where appropriate interrogate databases, the legal services case management system Iken and other data sources, in order to put together responses to Freedom of Information requests u...