June 2026

We are seeking to recruit a full-time experienced conveyancing fee earner for our Residential Conveyancing team. Part time applicants will also be considered.

You will need to have experience with freehold and leasehold properties (including leasehold flats) registered and unregistered properties. Some experience of dealing with tenancies and repossession proceedings and ability to deal with general property queries e.g. boundary disputes, issues with neighbours etc. is essential. It would also be helpful if you had experience of reading and interpreting building survey reports and acting upon the points arising including instructing and reviewing additional reports obtained.

The work of the team is very interesting and provides residential property services to our existing Court of Protection and Private clients (including Trusts) only; we do not take ‘off the street’ conveyancing and have chosen not to act for lenders. Each matter is different and the team often provide advice to the deputy and other solicitors in the firm, who are buying, selling or dealing with property issues for our clients.

Reporting to Katherine Forster, the solicitor who heads up our property team, the successful candidate will:

• Set up files including AML checks;
• Commission surveys and subsequent reports;
• Deal with all aspects of sales and purchase transactions from first instructions to post completion filing of SDLT return at HMRC and registration of title at Land Registry;
• Liaise throughout with surveyors, estate agents, clients and other side solicitors;
• Attending client meetings to take notes and to action matters arising;
• Liaising with clients and other professionals to assist the Court of Protection team in all property related matters.
• Meet time recording and billing targets

The successful candidate will have at least 3 years’ experience of all aspects of a residential conveyancing transaction as a fee earner. You will need to have successfully completed either a law degree, the PGDL or ILEX legal qualifications including land/property law or Council of Licensed Conveyancer qualifications.

This is bespoke conveyancing and the applicant will need to be able to produce their own letters, documents and reports and manage the transaction from start to finish in a proactive and timely manner.

We have a strong ethos of internal recruitment with plenty of opportunity for internal development and progression to other roles.

Following induction and a period of training, hybrid working is available for the post.

Salary and benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Private Health following completion of a 3-month probationary period
• Subsidised gym membership
• Life insurance at 3 x salary
• Contributory pension scheme
• Attendance Bonus scheme
• Annual bonus of a week’s salary on firm hitting target
• Annual bonus for hitting 96%+ of chargeable time target
• Long service bonuses at 5,10 and 15 years service
• Additional 1.5 day’s holiday at Christmas (combination of Christmas shopping/closing office at Christmas Eve)
• Half day birthday finish
• We will provide IT equipment and any furniture required to set up your home office. 

Salary range: Commensurate with experience and dependent upon qualifications 

Start date: As soon as available. 

Applications to Jenny Roberts, Head of Operations and Compliance on jenny.roberts@hughjonessolicitors.co.uk with CV and covering email.