Apprentice Legal Secretary

The role

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a talented Apprentice Legal Secretary to join our Restructuring team in Manchester. This is an excellent opportunity to gain some hands-on legal administration experience alongside a supportive team of legal secretaries and fee earners up to partner level.

You will assist fee earners who advise a wide variety of clients.

We will provide full training and support for this position, including allocating a dedicated supervisor and mentor to the successful candidates.

The successful candidate will study the Level 3 Business Administrator apprenticeship standard with Ixion Holdings, our partner training provider. Applicants must not have a qualification in a similar subject at the same level or above.

The role will develop with training and experience, but we expect the successful candidate to be involved with assisting fee earners in some of the below aspects:

• Typing and drafting correspondence
• Amending documents
• Booking meetings
• Assisting with and drafting bills
• Arranging and booking travel and accommodation (occasional)
• Opening, maintaining and closing files
• Updating and maintaining databases
• Scanning and preparing documentation
• Filing
• Scanning/photocopying
• Printing
• Diary Management (occasional)
• To be aware of and comply with the company's policies and procedures

The team

Our Restructuring team includes specialists in restructuring, mainstream transactional and contentious insolvency work and a team dedicated to overseas insolvency litigation. We provide advice on financial and organisational restructuring, spanning issues across the full spectrum whether that is due to solvent or insolvent business sales and exits; debt trading; or directors' duties and corporate governance.

Our lawyers play an active part in organisations such as the Institute for Turnaround, Turnaround Management Association, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) and the Insolvency Lawyer's Association. And several of them take part in and chair various central and regional committees for those industry bodies.

Clients include banks, finance companies, venture capitalists and insolvency practitioners.

The Restructuring team provide a nurturing and supportive environment and there is opportunity for genuine long term progression prospects. We invest in our people, recruiting and retaining the best in the market. We work hard in creating an enjoyable workplace culture that encourages the sharing of knowledge and experience.

The person

Applicants will need to have at least five GCSE's graded A* - C/9 - 4 or equivalent and be able to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Strong communication skills both written and verbal
• The ability to work as part of a team
• The willingness to learn
• Attention to detail
• Strong organisational skills
• Good IT skills
• Typing skills
• Discretion and professionalism

The benefits

All apprenticestake part in our Apprentice Development Programme upon joining Gateley. The programme enables you to network with our wider cohort of apprentices, learn more about your preferred ways of working, strengths and development areas, and helps develop your soft skills to progress your career.

With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance.

In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are Gateley

We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.

The 'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

Diversity, inclusion and well being

Diversity, inclusion and well being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.

We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

Additional Information

If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.