Guest Services Supervisor

Guest Services Supervisor/Head Senior Receptionist Gateshead £12.50 per hour

The successful candidate will oversee the Reception area and have duty Manager Responsibilities, the candidate also MUST have experience of the Opera System.

Main Responsibilities:-

  • Providing excellent customer service and ensuring smooth operations within the hotel
  • You will work closely with other managers to ensure guest satisfaction, handle customer complaints, and respond to enquiries.
  • You will also have a duty management responsibility supervising and delegating tasks to coworkers, oversee front-end transactions, and maintain department supplies.
  • You are responsible for the administration of hotel operations and departmental policy and procedures, and manage cash handling responsibilities, including reconciliation and recording all transactions.
  • You will perform closing operations, compile and check daily records, and maintain a fully stocked gift shop.
  • They are responsible for opening and closing registers, balancing cash drawers, and making nightly deposits. 

 

This would be an excellent opportunity for a Senior Receptionist who would like to progress into a Management role. 

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Hotel Operations Manager

Hotel Operations Manager, Permanent Gateshead

Key Responsibilities:-

  • Overseeing the smooth and effective operation of the business as well as the day-to-day management of this popular 200 bedroom
  • Responsible for all health and safety as well as aspects of the business compliance.
  • You will also be the onsite HR leader driving all quality and training to ensure the delivery of business excellence.
  • The Operations Manager is a senior leadership position with the direct reports of the front office manager, food & beverage manager and head housekeeper.

The Operations Manager must be a People Person – championing team member engagement, training and guest satisfaction, so a track record in people management and training is essential.    This is a hands on and systems management role on a varied shift basis: Early/Middle/late/Day/ shifts and 5/7. We operate a 24-hour duty manager Rota and our Operations Manager both features on this roster as well as compiling and training DMs and includes deputising for the GM with occasional owner interaction.

Necessary Experience:-

  • Degree level educated, ideally within a hospitality management related or business administration discipline from an internationally recognized hospitality school or similar
  • Broad experience as an Operations Manager/ EAM / Deputy General Manager and specifically additional experience within midscale hotels.
  • Experience in management roles with international hotel brands (4 star categories)
  • Significant experience of managing people including large, complex and multi-national teams.
  • Understanding of uniform systems of accounts used for hotels.
  • Highest level of numeracy and literacy.
  • Fluency in English is essential and the ability to read and communicate in the local language of the location would be a distinct advantage.  Additional languages welcome
  • A strong sense of commerciality and financial acumen
  • Computer literacy and a high level of competency within Microsoft Office programmes and hotel reservations systems (Micros Opera)

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Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant 22K-25K

Exciting opportunity to join a North East leading Law Firm Finance Team. 

Ideally, the applicant should:

  • Possess a good working knowledge of the Solicitors Account Rules
  • Hold AAT Level 2 or above, or hold the ILFM Diploma
  • Have a minimum of 3 years experience working within legal accounts 
  • Be accurate with excellent attention to detail
  • Be trustworthy, proactive, well organised and be able to use their own initiative
  • Work well in a team
  • Be friendly and approachable with a professional manner

Main Responsibilities:-

  • Accurate and timely processing of day-today banking transactions from both office and client accounts
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Maintenance of the purchase ledger including supplier invoice processing and payment.
  • Checking and processing of client invoices
  • Electronic payments including CHAPS, BACS and Faster Payments
  • Regular review and management of client ledgers
  • Management and reconciliation of petty cash
  • Nominal payments
  • Nominal ledger journals
  • Cash flow management and reporting
  • Month end processing and reporting
  • Dealing with general enquiries and administration

Experience working in a Law Firm with knowledge of Solicitors Accounts is essential. 

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Residential Conveyancer

Residential Conveyancer Sunderland

Prestiogious North East Sunderland based Law Firm are currently looking to recuit an experienced Conveyancer the successful candidate will be confident in running their own caseload alone from start to finish. 

Main Responsibilities:-

  • Perform fee earning work accurately, reliably and in accordance with the firm’s quality and risk management procedures.
  • Ensure proper control of work in progress, billing and cash collection.
  • Attendance at most or all partnership and other office or departmental meetings, leading by example with contributions made at and subsequent to such events.
  • Acceptance of need for collective responsibility and confidentiality: partner disagreements should not be disclosed to staff and confidential practice matters must be safeguarded.
  • Provide leadership and supervision to all staff that they oversee or supervise, whether on an office or departmental basis. All partners should provide direction and encouragement to staff and should be careful to support the practice line on issues. Cabinet responsibility should apply.
  • Be effective in developing new work from existing clients and seek new clients for themselves and others. Will develop and support marketing initiatives.
  • Maintain and nurture an appropriate network of contacts and referrers and endeavour to promote the firm in their professional and personal lives. 9. Gain or maintain IT skills appropriate to modern legal practice, such as ability to send, forward and respond to e-mails with or without attachments, conduct research on internet and ensure proper filing of all data. 10. Understand the main uses and applications of the office telephone system – e.g. be able to reroute calls, set up conference calls, etc.

Excellent opportunity with leading North East firm this position is also immediately available. 

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Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary

Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary Gateshead 

 

Looking for a Legal Secretary who has worked within a Conveyancing department to effectively assist the Fee Earner in the daily management of client matters.

The Main Responsibilities of this role will include:-

  • Initial enquiries on sale and purchase files
  • Due Diligence in relation to AML obligations and risk management
  • Obtaining all required documentation from client and other side and liasing with third party providers such as HMLR, Search Providers and Lenders 
  • Drafting sale contracts and re-mortgage documentation as required by Fee Earner
  • Regular updates to client on progress of matter and dealing with ad-hoc enquiries from clients, Estate Agents and third parties
  • To ensure that telephone calls are taken from the switchboard promptly.
  • Assist with good practical compliance to ensure high levels of Client Care required under the SRA Code of Conduct.
  • To make appointments and maintain an up to date diary system. To ensure that all of the outgoing post is correctly identified between DX and Royal Mail post.
  • To ensure that all enclosures are present and that the post is prepared and delivered to the post room in good time for the close of business.
  • To ensure that correspondence and enclosures are sent to the correct recipient to ensure compliance under the Data Protection Act 2018 (GDPR)
  • To undertake photocopying, fax and document binding duties when appropriate. To ensure the confidentiality and security of all Practice and Client documentation and/or information

Great opportunity to join a firm of highly experienced staff and grow and devlop with the oppotyunity. 

 

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Legal Receptionist & Administrator

Job description

Legal Receptionist/Administrator Gateshead

Main Responsibilities:-

  • Providing excellent customer service to both external and internal clients
  • Greeting and welcoming clients, showing them to meeting rooms and offering beverages
  • Setting up telephone and video conference calls, ensuring all audio-visual equipment is in working order
  • Liaising with travel company for any last minute flight / hotel bookings
  • Answering and forwarding all incoming telephone calls to the switchboard
  • Informing building reception of any visitors by using the online visitors booking system

 

Any experience working in a Law Firm/Legal Environment would be greatly appreciated

 

Benefits:

  • Discounted or free food
  • On-site parking
  • Opportunity to work with a leading North East Law firm

 

Schedule:

  • 10 hour shift
  • Monday to Friday

 

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Gateshead, Tyne and Wear: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

 

Work Location: One location

For more information please contact Sarah at Sarah@adkinscheurfi.co.uk

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Project/Sales Administrator

Adkins & Cheurfi are searching for a Project/Sales Administrator for a role-based in the Gateshead.

As a Project/Sales Administrator you will be responsible for providing office administration ensuring that services are delivered to a high standard and enabling the business to deliver a customer focussed service more effectively and efficiently.

Responsibilities

  • Deal with telephone and email enquiries, Service Calls & Small Sales using email system (e.g., Microsoft outlook)
  • General internal support for field sales/projects team
  • Sales order processing including raising purchase orders for suppliers, acknowledgements and invoices to clients.
  • Job costing including adding supplier invoices to our cost sheets and querying with Project Manager as appropriate
  • Co-ordinate between customers/suppliers/colleagues
  • Organise and store paperwork, documents, and computer-based information
  • Maintain filing & other office systems
  • Manage all warehouse deliveries and rotation of warehouse stock
  • Quarterly stocktakes & costing of warehouse stock
  • Estimating in both Exell and AutoQuotes.

Skills

  • Strong organisational skills
  • Use of Microsoft word and Excel
  • Good standard of English and understanding of Maths
  • Good presentational skills and attention to detail
  • The ability to plan your own work, use your initiative and meet deadlines
  • The ability to manage pressure and conflicting demands, prioritise tasks and workload
  • The ability to accept and understand instructions
  • A good all-round oral and written communication skills
  • A pleasant and confident telephone manner
  • Teamwork ability
  • Reliability and honesty

What to expect

  • Work is entirely office based – Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm
  • The nature of the role is to support colleagues and projects rather than to lead them
  • The role can be stressful at times since the work is always focused on the needs of the business. Deadlines may be imposed suddenly, demanding flexibility, and reprioritising of workload

DevOps

Adkins & Cheurfi are searching for a DevOps for a role-based in the Gateshead.

Adkins & Cheurfi are looking for a full-time, talented and motivated DevOps to join our successful and fast-paced organisation to help both maintain and enhance our tech.

You’ll be a dev-ops specialist – able to advise us what scalable architecture looks like, and put together migration and monitoring plans for our infrastructure, as well as advising the business on security best practices to help us meet the rigorous standards of our growing list of enterprise clients.

You’ll naturally feel a sense of responsibility for your tech stack and encourage others to find ways to optimise and improve the ways code is deployed and our systems are.

This role is perfect for a self-starter with deep sector expertise and a willingness to get stuck in and make our technology stack the very best it can be, supported by a first-class team in a rapidly growing technology company.

Skills and Experience

  • Solid knowledge of Linux (Debian)
  • Dedicated server experience is essential
  • Knowledge of Docker, containerisation and Kubernetes
  • Min 3 years’ experience in a DevOps type role
  • Knowledge of multi-tenant architecture
  • Familiar with server security and patch management
  • Familiar with load balancing and scaling
  • Key eye for architectural design with past experience and reference
  • Familiar with deployment pipelines and automation
  • Understanding of ‘no single point of failure’ architecture

The Perks

  • 22 Annual days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Competitive salary
  • Opportunity to work with a close-knit, motivational team in an established global company
  • Top-end tech
  • On-site parking
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote working allocation if based in the office
  • 10 days workcation
  • Social events

Flutter Developer

Adkins & Cheurfi are searching for a Flutter Developer for a role-based in the Gateshead.

Adkins & Cheurfi are looking for a full-time, talented and motivated Flutter developer to join our successful and fast-paced organisation to help both maintain and enhance our mobile development.

You will be joining an established and close-knit team as a key member with unlimited opportunities for personal development and growth. You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our growing suite of Flutter applications with both existing and exciting new clients. While you’ll be expected to have solid foundational skills, you’ll also be encouraged to take risks and try new things with the full support of the team all while taking advantage of on-site parking and convenient public transport links to the office as well as the use of top-end kit and flexible working hours.

About You

  • Organised and self-motivated
  • An excellent communicator (verbally and written), capable of inspiring colleagues and clients
  • Outgoing, personable, sociable and easy-going
  • Open to criticism from your team to benefit project development
  • Comfortable with pressure and deadlines and can work in a fast-paced environment

Essential Skills

  • Solid understanding of Dart
  • Solid understanding of the Flutter framework (2years min)
  • Working knowledge of state management, preferably BLOC
  • Good understanding and confident application of SOLID principles
  • Great knowledge of RESTful APIs
  • Good knowledge of performance optimisation and security
  • Experience both Android and IOS releases and their nuances

The Perks

  • 22 Annual days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Competitive salary
  • Social events
  • Social drinks on a Friday
  • Opportunity to work with a close-knit, motivational team in an established global company
  • Top-end tech
  • On-site parking
  • Flexible working hours

Front End Developer

Adkins & Cheurfi are searching for a Front End Developer for a role-based in the Gateshead.

Adkins & Cheurfi are looking for a full-time, talented and motivated front-end developer to join our successful and fast-paced organisation to help both maintain and enhance our front-end tech.

You will be joining an established and close-knit team as a key member with unlimited opportunities for personal development and growth. You will be responsible for the front end technology used in all of our tech stacks ranging from websites, back-office software through to application across iOS and Android. You’ll also be encouraged to take risks and try new things with the full support of the team all while taking advantage of on-site parking and convenient public transport links to the office as well as the use of top-end kit and flexible working hours.

About You

  • Solid understanding of PHP derived templates (PHTML)
  • An understanding of Flutter and other cross-platform technologies.
  • A good understanding of best frontend practices across iOS & Android.
  • Vanilla JS and jQuery
  • HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3
  • CSS compilers including SASS and LESS
  • Knowledge of bootstrap 3/4
  • Minimum of 3 years of working with B2B & B2C companies
  • Solid understanding of WCAG accessibility guidelines
  • Knowledge of version control system GIT
  • Knowledge of task automation using Grunt
  • Solid understanding of responsive design including the use of media queries and responsive techniques such as flexbox
  • Solid understanding of graceful degradation for older browser support

The Perks

  • 22 Annual days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Competitive salary
  • Social events
  • Social drinks on a Friday
  • Opportunity to work with a close-knit, motivational team in an established global company
  • Top-end tech
  • On-site parking
  • Flexible working hours