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We are looking for an experienced, customer-focussed receptionist to work on our front desk. You'll be based on the reception desk in our central London office; welcoming clients and visitors, answering the phone, preparing meeting rooms, and helping your team with administrative tasks to support our lawyers. This is a great opportunity for a receptionist looking to gain experience within a top UK law firm. This is a permanent contract, working 36.25 hours a week, Monday to Friday, working 7.25 hour shifts between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
The role
- Welcoming clients, visitors, contractors and employees in line with Bevan Brittan standards
- Answering phones in a prompt and professional manner, routing calls as necessary to the relevant person
- Managing meeting room bookings in both internal client rooms and external venues
- Ensuring meeting rooms are cleared and ready for the next meeting
- Managing train ticket and taxi requests
- Providing support to the facilities team
- Supporting administrative tasks, including conflict searching and matter opening
- Compiling electronic bundles for court and experts
- General office administrative duties including copying, scanning etc
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What we are looking for from you
The ideal applicant will possess the following skills:
- Quality and customer service driven, with a concern for accuracy and an eye for detail
- Previous experience in an administrative role is essential. Ideally, this would be within a professional services environment
- Working knowledge of Word, Outlook and Excel
- Able to work to deadlines and prioritise own workload effectively
- Enthusiastic, pro-active and flexible. Willing to contribute and support others as part of a team
- Confident verbal and written communication skills
- Additionally, reprographics, courier and outgoing mail experience are also desirable skills as there may be times where you will be asked to help our reprographics team
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Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Explore our markets and services here.
We are highly ranked across the legal directories and our 2024/25 financial results confirmed twelve years of consecutive growth.
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We support our people to be their best and, through our hybrid working model, we offer the flexibility to work your week in a way that suits you.
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