Current vacancies

Secretary Child Care/Family

We are currently looking to recruit a secretary full time in our child care/family department at Sheffield.

Applicants must have previous experience of working in a secretarial/administrative position and experience of using digital dictation.

The job holder will be expected to carry out all aspects of administration support to the busy fee earners in our child care/family department. Duties will include but are not limited to: corresponding with clients over the telephone, face to face and email, maintaining accurate diary systems, making up new files, ensuring all files are kept up to date and responding to routine correspondence. Further details can be found in the job description below.

Applicants must have excellent organisational skills and excellent client care skills. Further information can be found in the person specification below.

Howells offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday entitlement (30 days fee earners/managers and 23 days increasing by 1 day each year up to 28 days support staff)
• 3 discretionary days Christmas to New Year
• 8 bank holidays
• Flexi time scheme, with the ability to take up to 4 flex days each year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Group Life Assurance (death in service) – after 2 years
• STAR (Special Thanks and Recognition) award
• Training and development opportunities
• Social fund
• Contractual Sick Pay Entitlement
• Contractual Maternity Pay Entitlement
• Recruitment Bonus Payments
• Voluntary benefits e.g. Westfield Health scheme, cycle to work scheme, staff savings scheme

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy please contact Claire Bond, HR Officer on (0114) 2496763 or email hr@howellsllp.com

Closing date for this vacancy is the 16th December 2022 @ 4.00pm.

Contentious Probate Fee Earner

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the busy and successful Wills Trust and Probate Team at Howells. We are currently recruiting a contentious probate fee earner to work in this hardworking team, across the three South Yorkshire offices (Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley), providing good quality legal advice to clients seeking assistance with a wide variety of wills trust and probate issues.

The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of this area of law, be highly motivated, hard working and driven to achieve.

Ideally he or she will be a STEP member.

Howells offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday entitlement (30 days fee earners/managers and 23 days increasing by 1 day each year up to 28 days support staff)
• 3 discretionary days Christmas to New Year
• 8 bank holidays
• Flexi time scheme, with the ability to take up to 4 flex days each year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Group Life Assurance (death in service) – after 2 years
• STAR (Special Thanks and Recognition) award
• Training and development opportunities
• Social fund
• Contractual Sick Pay Entitlement
• Contractual Maternity Pay Entitlement
• Recruitment Bonus Payments
• Voluntary benefits e.g. Westfield Health scheme, cycle to work scheme, staff savings scheme

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy please contact Claire Bond, HR Officer on (0114) 2496763 or email hr@howellsllp.com

Closing date for applications is Friday 23rd December 2022@ 4.00pm.

Salary for this role is dependent on experience.

Litigation specialist – Claims Against Public Authorities

We have a vacancy for a civil litigator (full and part time applicants considered) to join our civil actions and public law team, based in the Sheffield office. Whilst a qualified solicitor is preferred we will consider all applicants with relevant experience.

We wish to recruit someone with experience of pursuing police complaints, claims against public authorities, inquests and judicial review.

Applicants should be familiar with assessing clients for Legal Help and completing CCMS applications as well as CFAs, ATE and private client work. Experience of undertaking file reviews and supervision in line with the CAPA supervisor standard would be an advantage.

Further information can be found in the attached job description and person specification below.

Howells offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday entitlement (30 days fee earners/managers and 23 days increasing by 1 day each year up to 28 days support staff)
• 3 discretionary days Christmas to New Year
• 8 bank holidays
• Flexi time scheme, with the ability to take up to 4 flex days each year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Group Life Assurance (death in service) – after 2 years
• STAR (Special Thanks and Recognition) award
• Training and development opportunities
• Social fund
• Contractual Sick Pay Entitlement
• Contractual Maternity Pay Entitlement
• Recruitment Bonus Payments
• Voluntary benefits e.g. Westfield Health scheme, cycle to work scheme, staff savings scheme

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy please contact Claire Bond, HR Officer  on (0114) 2496763 or email hr@howellsllp.com

Closing date for this vacancy is Friday 23rd December 2022 @ 4.00pm.

Senior Child Care Law

We are currently looking to recruit a solicitor to join our Child Care team. (3 years PQE, no upper limit). The position is predominantly based in the Sheffield office.

Applicants will have a good knowledge of public childcare law.

Experience of conducting their own caseload and dealing with own advocacy is essential.

Further information can be found in the person specification and job description on the website.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a busy and hard-working team, with a commitment to client care.

Preferably full time, however, part time hours will be considered.

The closing date for applications is Friday 16th December 2022.

Further information can be obtained from the job description and person specification.  Should you require any other information then please contact Claire Bond, HR Officer on (0114) 249 6763

Senior Residential Conveyancer

We are looking for a Senior Residential Conveyancer/Head of Department (5+ years PQE, no upper limit) for our well established Conveyancing Department. This position is based in Sheffield, however, travel to our other offices in Rotherham and Barnsley, will be required.

The candidate will be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of this area of law, be highly motivated, hardworking and driven to achieve.

The ideal candidate will have experience of managing and developing a Residential Conveyancing Team in addition to engaging in business development opportunities and will have a proven track record of increasing revenue and profitability.

The ideal candidate will also have experience of working in a digital/paperless environment and have the ability to implement and drive forward initiatives to improve efficiency and the client experience.

This is an excellent opportunity with real potential to step up for the right candidate.

Howells offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday entitlement (30 days)
• 3 discretionary days Christmas to New Year
• 8 bank holidays
• Flexi time scheme, with the ability to take up to 4 flex days each year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Group Life Assurance (death in service) – after 2 years
• STAR (Special Thanks and Recognition) award
• Training and development opportunities
• Social fund
• Contractual Sick Pay Entitlement
• Contractual Maternity Pay Entitlement
• Recruitment Bonus Payments
• Voluntary benefits e.g. Westfield Health scheme, cycle to work scheme, staff savings scheme

Further information can be obtained from the job description and person specification.  Should you require any other information then please contact Claire Bond, HR Officer on (0114) 249 6763

Closing date for this vacancy is Friday 16th December 2022.