Head of Residential Conveyancing

Our client, a great North East law firm with an excellent regional reputation, is looking to recruit a Head of Residential Conveyancing to join their team in Newcastle.

The role would suit an experienced residential conveyancer and ideal Head of Residential Conveyancing, who can demonstrate significant team lead/ head of department experience.

What's on offer?

• Salary: Salary to £50,000 dependent on experience.


• Flexibility: Hybrid working opportunity alongside flexibility around hours.


• Culture: An employer of choice, who put the wellbeing of their staff at the forefront of their priorities.
  
  A great working environment, social team, autonomy over workload.


• Career progression: A firm who values longevity of staff, and works with individuals to be able to provide extensive long term career progression opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of conveyancers, paralegals and support staff, dealing with the day to day running of the department, appraisals, delegating work, target setting, workload monitoring and recruitment.


• Managing a reduced caseload of residential conveyancing transactions from the point of instruction through to completion.


• Being the point of contact for complex/ non-standard property queries.


• Building on existing and developing new client relationships.


• Working with heads of other departments across the business on ways of best practice.

Requirements:

• The candidate will ideally be a current Head of Department within residential conveyancing however, strong residential conveyancers with extensive team lead/ management experience are also encouraged to apply.


• Ideally a qualified Solicitor, Licensed Conveyancer or Chartered Legal Executive, though conveyancers qualified by years' of experience will still be of interest.

To apply for this role, please contact Chloe Murphy in the Private Practice East Division on 0113 467 9783.