We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. Whether it’s personal or business, we understand that everyone’s situation is different. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.

We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

The role can be based from any of our regional offices and offers flexibility in terms of home and office working.

The Court of Protection is the judicial body responsible for making decisions relating to the management of finances and other affairs of those individuals who lack the mental capacity to do so themselves. As one of the UK’s leading firms of solicitors, we have a dedicated and experienced team who specialise in all matters relating to the Court of Protection. We help clients who are responsible for managing someone else’s affairs, those who are concerned about the ability of someone else to manage their own affairs  or another person’s affairs and clients who may be concerned about their own ability to manage their affairs.

The primary purpose of the role is to ensure File Reviews are completed on behalf of the national COP Team. This will be in line with the COP Supervision policy and File review protocol. You will also be required to support the team with the delivery of business improvement projects and business critical change, as required.

Your role will include but is not limited to the following tasks:

• Ensure File Reviews are completed and delivered at the rate required by the COP Supervision policy and COP File Review protocol.
• Work with COP Risk Lead to enable Support to work as efficiently as possible. This means you will help define and improve the current financial, operational, and accounting processes to drive better working practices, ensure robust controls, and minimise risk. This includes delivery of documented processes including flowcharts, process narratives, process risk & controls matrices, test plans, periodic balance sheet reconciliations, etc.
• Ensure management of risks and issues against the projects or change, ensuring that adequate planning and contingencies have been put in place to cope with any problems that occur.
• Deliver all required documentation on projects to a high standard, e.g. business requirements specifications, change request documentation, user acceptance plans/scripts, process maps, project plans, reports
• Undertake regular reviews of operating processes and systems to ensure high level of service and technical proficiency is maintained within the department.
• Develop and maintain relationships with all COP offices. The job holder should also develop and maintain strong links with internal stakeholders including: PI, IM Accounts, IT, Central Change.
• Ensure all activity is in reference to costs recovery guidelines and analysis, to ensure that any overheads are kept to an absolute minimum.
• Ensure team adherence to agreed financial and court requirements across the business, and compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.