Junior Family Clerk

Job description

JOB TITLE: Family Clerk (Manchester)

REPORTS TO: Lead Family Clerk and Head of Operations but ultimately to Head of Chambers/ Deputy Head of Chambers

LOCATION: Manchester City Centre but may be required to travel  to clients’ offices on occasion

SALARY: £30,000 – £34,000 depending on experience

HOURS: 9am-5.30pm Monday – Friday with some hours outside this period and telephone coverage on a rota basis.

APPLICATION DATES: Applications to be received by 4pm on 21 November 2025 .

Applications should be contained in a single PDF document.

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 1 December 2025 with a proposed start date of 15 January 2026.

JOB SUMMARY:

Primary tasks are:

First, to assist in the overall delivery of clerking services but primarily to the Family Team and to provide both counsel and their clients with a comprehensive clerking service and to work collaboratively with other members of the clerking team to also achieve that.

This will in turn require you to ensure the smooth running of the clerking and in particular, family clerking by:

*Striving to ensure that work is allocated to appropriate counsel avoiding conflict of interest and potential clashes where possible

*Striving to ensure that work is allocated to appropriate counsel in good time for work to be prepared.

*Helping to manage the family diary on a day-to-day basis and dealing with all relevant correspondence (including emails, phone calls etc.).

*Forward planning the diary to ensure the timely delivery of briefs.

*Taking telephone bookings of hearings and conferences.

*Negotiating fees when that is required.

*Ensuring briefs and instructions are properly and accurately logged on to the computer data record and are available to counsel.

*When called upon to do so, the billing of work conducted by the Family Team and which requires you to be familiar with Legal Aid Billing rules and regulations.

*Ensuring members of Chambers are accurately informed of their commitments for the following working day and noting diary accordingly.

*Helping to raise the brand profile of the overall Chambers by assisting in marketing activities in and out of chambers and arranging and attending at Chambers seminars and events.

*To ensure the implementation of the chambers equality and diversity policy.

Secondly, to provide support, assistance and engage in the training and development of both you and within the clerk’s room.

Please send all application to nazmun.ismail@centralchambers.co.uk, marked “Family  Clerk Vacancy”.

Please ensure that your covering letter and CV are in PDF format.