Job Description

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Business Support

Date posted

24/07/2025

Job reference

HJ0377

Background

We currently have an opportunity for a Conveyancing Assistant to join our Plot Sales team within the Commercial Property department. Our plot sales specialists work with various house builders, offering expert advice in the sale of new build properties. The role will involve ensuring efficient processing and high levels of service delivery to all developer clients served by the team.

The role

Duties will include:

Undertake administration in relation to file opening and file closing Drafting standard letters to clients and solicitors Keeping clients up to date - dealing with telephone, email and written queries Photocopying and any ad hoc duties required for the team/department Carry out general administration work as required. Undertaking Land Registry tasks to include obtaining title and documents and undertaking searches via the Land Registry Portal

Skills & Qualifications

The successful candidate will have:

Excellent telephone-based client care skills Be comfortable working within a fast-paced environment Administration and IT skills with a high degree of accuracy and organisation with the ability to draft standard responses.


This could be the ideal role for someone with administration experience or customer cares skills, from an office or call centre environment.

Life at Hugh James

We never shy away from a challenge

We are a leading, full-service UK law firm. Since our beginning, we have been led by the things that matter. We care about fighting for the right outcomes. Solving the seemingly unsolvable. Protecting businesses, individuals and livelihoods. Supporting our people, our communities. Safeguarding our planet. Looking for a way forward? At Hugh James, challenges - of all sizes - are readily accepted.

The Hugh James difference

Our law firm has always been guided by the idea that self-belief is just as important as skillset. Our pursuit of righting wrongs and protecting what's important keeps us driving forwards. It's in our roots! We won't stop until we find the answers; the outcomes that are needed.

We are focused on the work we do, the business we run, and our culture. Our entrepreneurial spirit has taken us from humble beginnings to a strong presence across the UK with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Plymouth - servicing clients from businesses, individuals and banks to public sector organisations, property companies, education establishments and utilities providers. Our collegiate culture, our forward-looking ethos, our values serve to make us bigger, better, bolder than ever before.

A positive force in the community

Our work with charities on a local and national level plays a huge part in our day-to-day lives. We work with a large range of charities, some of which we support through fundraising, donations, volunteering and others we partner with where our areas of work cross paths. Staff, clients everyone comes together through a shared passion to do good in the community and support those in need.

Some of our benefits on offer include:

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Two Corporate Social Responsibility days

Birthday day off

Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary

Auto enrolment pension scheme

Hybrid working

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts for local businesses

Professional fees paid (subject to requirement for your role)

Employee recruitment incentive scheme

Hugh James is an equal opportunities and disability confident committed employer.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity. If you have questions, please contact Evie Koper.

We reserve the right to close our vacancies earlier than the given deadline if we receive sufficient applications for the role.