About Slater and Gordon:

Do you want to begin an exciting career at one of the UK’s leading consumer law firms? At Slater and Gordon, they are constantly looking for emerging talent and due to the success of their current and former apprentices they are once again looking to expand the team with a new IT Support Apprentice.

Slater and Gordon is one of the UK's leading law firms with offices based locally around the country. They represent clients across a wide range of legal areas, such as personal injury, medical negligence, family law, employment law, wills, tax, trusts and probate, and disputes. Their reputation is built on the range of expertise offered by specialist lawyers across all areas of law. Their mission is to provide high quality, technology-driven legal services to all consumers.

About the role:

The IT department manages all technology in the business, including infrastructure, software and hardware. The team plays a key role in driving technological improvements across the business and ensuring that the business remain at the forefront of using technology to enhance the business services and products. Your primary role as an IT Support Apprentice is to deliver excellent technical on-site support with outstanding customer service to all users across the business.

Please note: 

All applicants must to be willing to work from the Manchester Office on occasion to attend training and to cover holidays and absence. You will need to be in the office and ready to start work no later than 9am as well as being willing to cover the 8am - 4pm as needed. 

Responsibilities:

• Deliver excellent customer and technology services via the Service Desk channels
• Use service monitoring tools to aid problem solving and service delivery
• Use automation where possible to support the automatic resolution or mitigation of issues
• Support, develop and co-ordinate the effective functioning of business applications
• Contribute to the planning of application scalability, configuration changes and releases
• Providing virtual support for staff working remotely as well as on-site.
• Interact with internal teams and 3 party vendors as appropriate as part of the supply/delivery/support chain
• Handle escalated Service Desk tickets, incident management and service requests as appropriate
• Contribute to and resolve escalated customer, supplier, and vendor issues
• Develop and demonstrate an understanding of customer and business needs
• Participate and assist in driving the knowledge management process
• Participate in IT related projects
• Assist with the creation, distribution, and analysis of operational, business and financial reporting
• Contribute to the production of IT support documentation as part of knowledge base

Desirable skills:

• Good communication skills
• Excellent customer service skills
• Basic level of IT knowledge and general IT skills
• Excellent time/task management skills
• Good problem-solving skills
• Can manage a varied and unpredictable workload
• Pro-active approach to tasks
• Can work as part of a team but also autonomously with minimal supervision when required
• Able to make decisions (with support when required)
• Ability to deal with difficult customers and provide a satisfactory outcome in an efficient and polite manner

Entry requirements:

• 3 GCSEs (or equivalent) at grades 4+ (A-C) in any subject
• GCSE Maths and English (or equivalents) at grades 3+ (D or above)
• Prospective apprentices must not hold an existing qualification at the same or higher level as this apprenticeship is in a similar subject

You may also have a combination of qualifications and experience which demonstrate the minimum foundation needed for the programme. In this instance you could still be considered for the programme.

If you hold international equivalents of the above qualifications, at the time of your application you must be able to provide an official document that states how your international qualifications compare to the UK qualifications. 

For more information please visit the UK ENIC website.

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Buy and sell annual leave up to 5 days
• Employee referral scheme
• Group incentive plan (discretionary annual bonus scheme)
• Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App providing you with services including annual health checks, access to digital GP’s, mental health consultations, 2 medical opinions and more
• BUPA cover after 1 years’ service
• Employee assistance programme where you can access free webinars for stress awareness and counselling sessions
• Group income protection which will support you with an income if you are unable to work long term, as a result of an illness or injury.
• Health and wellbeing programme and apps including gym discounts, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, meditation sessions and much more
• Life assurance cover
• Workplace pension, 5% once probation is passed
• Benefits hub providing discounts in over 700 services including cinema tickers, food & drink, travel and high street stores
• Dental insurance
• Free legal help and discounted lawyer led legal services

Future prospects: 

Slater & Gordon are committed to helping their former apprentices reach their full potential through continuous training and development on successful completion of their apprenticeship. They offer their former apprentices the opportunity to move ahead in their career to enable them to meet their professional goals.

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Interested? Apply now!

Please be advised that this advert may close prior to the closing date stated above if a high number of applications are received. If you are interested in this vacancy please apply below as soon as possible.