January 2025

We are seeking to recruit a full time experienced conveyancing fee earner for our Residential Conveyancing team.  You will need to have experience with freehold and leasehold properties (including leasehold flats) registered and unregistered properties.  Some experience of dealing with tenancies and repossession proceedings and ability to deal with general property queries e.g. boundary disputes, issues with neighbours etc. is essential.

The work of the team is very interesting and provides residential property services to our existing Court of Protection and Private clients only; we do not take ‘off the street’ conveyancing and have chosen not to act for lenders.  Each matter is different and the team often provide advice to the deputy and other solicitors in the firm, who are buying, selling or dealing with property issues for our clients.

Reporting to Katherine Forster, the solicitor who heads up our property team, the successful candidate will:

• Set up files including AML checks;
• Commission surveys  and subsequent reports;
• Deal with all aspects of sales and purchase transactions from first instructions to post completion filing of SDLT return at HMRC and registration of title at Land Registry;
• Liaise throughout with surveyors, estate agents, clients and other side solicitors;
• Attending client meetings (Video meetings at present)to take notes and to action matters arising
• Liaising with clients and other professionals to assist the solicitor team.

The successful candidate will have at least 12 months’ experience of residential conveyancing as a fee earner and preferably more. You will need to have successfully completed either a law degree, the PGDL or ILEX legal qualifications including land/property law or Licenced Conveyancing qualfications.

We have a strong ethos of internal recruitment with plenty of opportunity for internal development and progression to other roles.

Following induction and a period of training, hybrid working is available for the post.

Salary and benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Private Health following completion of a 3 month probationary period
• Subsidised gym membership
• Life insurance at 3 x salary
• Contributory pension scheme
• Annual bonus of a week’s salary on firm hitting target
• Additional 1.5 day’s holiday at Christmas (combination of Christmas shopping/closing office at Christmas Eve).
• We will provide IT equipment and any furniture required to set up your home office. 

Salary:                  Competitive, depending on experience 

Start date:           As soon as available. 

Applications:       By covering email and CV, to Jenny Roberts, Operations Director on jenny.roberts@hughjonessolicitors.co.uk