Office Support Assistant - 12 month FTC

Burges Salmon LLP; Bristol; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading law firm seeks an Office Support Assistant for a 12-month fixed-term contract in their Bristol office. You will be part of the Legal Support team, handling mail, reprographics, and general office duties. This role promises professional development opportunities within a collaborative environment, ensuring quality internal services.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Friendly working environment

Community-oriented culture

Qualifications

• Experience working effectively in a team.
• High accuracy and attention to detail in work delivery.
• Previous experience in high-quality customer service.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all post received is processed and delivered correctly.
• Photocopying, binding, printing, scanning and laminating duties.
• Organize and keep facilities areas tidy.

Skills

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Customer service

Job description

We're looking for an Office Support Assistant to join our Operations department on a 12 month fixed-term basis at our Bristol office. This role is a part of our Legal Support team who deliver a broad range of responsibilities including mail, courier services and a reprographic service.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative and friendly team at the firm where you will have the opportunity to build relationships with a diverse range of colleagues, guaranteed to develop your skillset as you deliver a high quality internal service, contributing to the firm's success.

What you'll be doing:

• General post queries: ensuring all items of post received are scanned to the appropriate person, all hard copy post is placed in the correct post folder.
• Reprographics to include; Photocopying, binding, printing, scanning and laminating to meet standards set out in the operations handbook.
• Archiving and delivery of files
• Central pool of portable items procedures
• Making sure facilities areas are kept tidy and organised
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Experience working effectively in a team to deliver set objectives.
• Experience delivering work with high accuracy and attention to detail
• Experience delivering high quality customer service in a previous role
  
  

Manual handing is frequently involved in this role and shifts will vary between the hours of 8:30-7:00pm. This is fully based at our Bristol office due to the nature of the role.

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are delighted to have been named RollOnFriday's 'Best Law Firm to Work At' 2025, for the fourth year in a row, and also named as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2023. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

For any questions regarding the role, or to discuss any reasonable adjustments, please contact Katarina Athanasakos at [email protected]

To submit an application for this vacancy please click on the 'Apply Now' button.

The advert will be closing on 19th June 2025.