PA, Teesside

The role

We are currently looking for a full-time experienced PA to work onsite at our Teesside office.

Please note, you will be required to attend our Time Central office in Newcastle twice a week for the first 3 months for training.

As well as providing support to the lawyers, the role will also involve responsibility for the day-to-day coordination of the office facilities.  For example: monitoring of all supplies and replenishment as necessary; reporting any faults or issues with equipment or the office space; deal with any suppliers/contractors and generally ensuring that the lawyers have everything they need in the office on a daily basis.  

You will also be the first point of contact for visitors and ensure they receive a warm welcome and are generally looked after during their visit.  

It is essential that candidates are:

• organised, with good planning skills
• able to maintain client confidentiality 
• proactive, flexible and enthusiastic
• able to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines and multi-task

You’ll also have:

• effective oral and written skills with GCSEs or equivalent in English and Mathematics (Grades A-C)
• relevant secretarial, word processing or computing qualifications (e.g. NVQ, RSA, ECDL)
• a preferred typing speed of 65 wpm

Previous experience should include:

• extensive diary management
• producing accurate documents and correspondence
• dealing with clients both face to face and over the telephone
• Microsoft Word
• PowerPoint and Excel (preferred)
• working with a document management system (preferred)
• working with a financial management system (preferred)

Experience from a legal background would be an advantage but is not essential. 

Our team

Our PA/administration team is held in high regard and provides a professional and efficient secretarial and administrative service to a number of fee-earners across the firm.  The PA/administration team is a key part of the wider Muckle LLP team, which is 190 people strong. Our people are based across our Newcastle, Cumbria and Teesside offices.

Our people and values

Our business is full of bright, enthusiastic, articulate, colourful, confident people. People who live and breathe our core values:

• Trust – we trust each other to do the right thing
• Teamwork – we are one team and work selflessly for each other
• Responsibility – we are self-starters and take responsibility for how we work together and communicate
• Care – we care about our people, clients and community 

It means, no matter who is involved, our clients receive the same excellent service from people who do what they say, on time and on budget, every time. That’s the Muckle way!

Our culture

We want everyone to understand how our business is run and encourage all our people to get involved.  We are also proud of the communities in which we live and work and give our people many ways to support them. 

For example, you could use your two days’ paid volunteering leave to support a local cause you care about or nominate them for a grant from our Muckle Fund at the Community Foundation.

From workplace running, netball, cycling and walking clubs to fun events organised by our BEAM (Being Engaged At Muckle) team and participation in our Green Team to help make the business as environmentally friendly as possible, we’ve created a unique and award-winning place to work: 

• B Corp Certified™ - the first law firm in the North East and Cumbria to achieve this accreditation, we are leading the charge in ethical and sustainable business practices within our region and it forms the next part of our ESG strategy and continuous improvement
• Investors In People Platinum award accreditation
• North East Best Place to Work 2024 and 2023
• North East Business of the Year 2023
• North East Better Health at Work Maintaining Excellence award
• Advanced Good Work Pledge
• Award for Most Inspiring Employer (large business) 2022 and 2023 at the Inspiring Females Awards run by the North East of England Chamber of Commerce

We are really proud of the results of our recent Investors In People survey, in which 99.2% of our people believe Muckle is a great place to work and 100% share the firm’s values.  Our overall results place Muckle LLP in 147th position for ALL Investors in People organisations (of which there are over 10,000 throughout the world) and 2nd for legal firms globally.

So how does all that sound? If you’re looking to work in a friendly, open environment and want to develop your career in a forward thinking, commercial North East law firm, then this is an excellent opportunity.