Trainee Proclaim Developer

IT

About Us

Established in 2000, Express Solicitors is an award-winning law firm that deals with personal injury and clinical negligence claims. Based in Manchester, we serve clients nationwide and are currently ranked 64 out of more than 10,000 law firms. We have a 5-star rating on Trustpilot from over 8,000 reviews, which coming from our clients means a lot to us. We are proud of the work we do helping injured people, and this is the core of our business.

The Role

Express is currently looking to appoint a Trainee Proclaim Developer, who will be responsible for assisting in the development and day to day administration of the Proclaim case management system. Access Legal Proclaim - Case management for today’s UK law firms

The role will be working with our Development Manager, nine other developers and where necessary third parties, in particular Access Legal Systems to ensure that all identified improvements to the system can be integrated efficiently and with minimal impact to end users.

The role will mainly involve developing and modifying the Proclaim case management system based on business needs through a combination of coding using the built in language editor and screen design and using built in developer tools.

In addition to development, the role will encompass the day-to-day administration of the Proclaim system and you would also be expected to support users of Proclaim with any issues.

There may be opportunities to use other coding languages where required to integrate Proclaim with third party applications.

You will need a great deal of co-operation with the general IT department and Operations department.

Full training in the maintenance, administration, and development of Proclaim will be provided – the successful candidate must bring a strong work ethic, analytical approach and display the ability to apply a common-sense approach to problem solving.

Person Specification

Essential

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• A methodical approach to working on large projects.
• Ability to clearly document planned and completed work.
• Excellent organisation and time management skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team in the delivery of projects.
• Ability to work under pressure to deadlines.
• Must understand the concept of internal customers and ensure that internal stakeholders remain confident in the ability of Proclaim to suit the needs of the business

Desired

• Programming experience/qualification or equivalent academic qualification.
• General understanding of common database programming and query languages.
• Working with data in software eg: Microsoft Excel

Salary \& Hours

• Salary of up to £30,000, dependent on experience
• Our standard working hours are 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday-Thursday and 8:30am to 5pm Friday. It may on occasion be necessary to perform maintenance outside of core hours and therefore a flexible approach is required.

Benefits

Hybrid Working

3/2 hybrid working pattern after probation.

23 Days Holiday

Rising to 26 days, plus bank/public holidays.

Extra Holidays

3 holiday buy backs and an extra day for your birthday after service length requirement.

Looking After Your Health

Private medical insurance available after 2 years’ service, annual flu jab and Employee Assistance Programme.

Looking After Your Well-being

24/7 onsite Gym, Netball/Football team, 10km Manchester team and more.

Work Life / Balance

Active social committee with generous departmental and firm-wide social budget.

Recruitment Process

Interviews will be conducted by MS Teams and will include scenario-based questioning.

Our employees are our most important asset, we rate skill and ability above all else and our recruitment policy encourages applications from all.