We have an exciting opportunity available for a new Head of the Residential Property department
Key Information
Would you like to join an award-winning Law firm?
Did you know we are rated 4.6 stars on Feefo and awarded Platinum for exceptional service?
Do you want to use your legal knowledge to Make a Positive Difference?
Do you need a happy work life balance?
Do you want to join a law firm who will take an active interest in your career development?
Who are we?
We are the Jackson Lees Group and are committed to doing what is right and making a positive difference. What started off as a small group of Solicitors in Liverpool is now a group of over 200 members of staff spread across Liverpool, Heswall, Hoylake and Churchtown.
Overall Purpose of the role:
To provide first rate legal services to our clients according to their specific needs, ensuring full compliance with policies and procedures laid out by the group and by regulatory bodies. To act as an ambassador for the group at all times, actively promoting its services.
Key accountabilities:
- Provide inspirational leadership and focus on day to day empowerment, ownership and legacy not only to the team but the Team Leaders
- Creating good, clear, robust communication within and across the teams will develop a cohesive, positive team environment and dynamic.
- You will lead and support your people through the continuous evolution of the property market and our ways of working; you will support them as our processes and offerings develop and evolve, helping articulate and understand the why of change and what good looks like.
- You will develop and foster a client focussed culture where your team see the client experience as equally important as the legal expertise.
- With a focus on ensuring we learn from complaints to improve our quality, you will create an environment where complaints create opportunities to learn as opposed to an opportunity criticise or ignore! You will foster excellent relations with COLP and work in partnership to drive continuous improvement.
- You will develop, maintain and appropriately use the technical expertise across the team to help find answers to questions.
- You will use the reporting to monitor, manage and predict to make sure the department is fully and adequately resourced to deliver a quality service, identifying where you need more resource, where you can allocate resource differently, to reduce resource if appropriate and do this in a timely way to make sure our client service isn’t negatively impacted.
- You will work with our Finance team to forecast as accurately as possible on a rolling 12 month basis.
Key Experience:
- Solicitor, CILEX or Licenced Conveyancer
- 4+ years PQE
- Leadership and Management experience
- Confident people Manager
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Network regularly to gain new Clients
- Strategic thinking and planning.
- Effective team collaboration.
What’s in it for you:
- Competitive basic salary
- 25 days holiday (Plus bank holidays)
- Referral bonus
- Free Health cash plan
- Pension plan
- Death in service
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Hybrid / working from home including provision of home office equipment
- Unlimited access to training academy courses
Jackson Lees Group (a part of The MAPD Group) is committed to fostering an accepting an inclusive environment for our people and clients. We know that Making A Positive Difference through the practice of law can be achieved best when we celebrate diversity of all kinds. We actively encourage those from underrepresented groups and diverse backgrounds to apply for this role, including people from minority ethnicity backgrounds, religious backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, people from different social backgrounds and of different ages.
Please direct all applications to our MAPD Recruitment team: recruitment@MAPDGroup.com