Document Reception Officer
| Posting date: | 23 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £13.90 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Onsite parking, Gym, Hybrid working |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 February 2026 |
| Location: | Newport, Newport, NP10 8QQ |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Brook Street |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | BBBH431535_1769162239 |
Summary
Document reception officer
Location: Newport - Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
Contract: 7-month initial term
Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Pay Rate: £13.90 per hour
Working Pattern: Hybrid (minimum 20% onsite)
About the Role
Brook Street is delighted to be recruiting on behalf of a public sector client, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), for an exciting opportunity based in Newport. This is a key administrative role supporting patent operations, ensuring documents, fees, and filings are processed accurately and in line with legislation.
The role offers a supportive working environment, excellent onsite facilities, and flexible hybrid working arrangements.
Benefits
- Onsite gym
- Onsite parking
- Hybrid working - minimum 20% onsite (1 day per week)
- Full flexibility to attend the office more frequently, particularly during training
- Opportunity to gain experience within a respected public sector organisation
Key Responsibilities
- Sort and dispatch unopened post, including London filings, ensuring document dating complies with the Act and Rules (office-based duty).
- Oversee the smooth running of the shared mailbox system on a daily rota basis, ensuring all received emails are accurate and correctly handled.
- Carry out non-technical examinations of documents to ensure correct filing dates are applied in compliance with legislation.
- Examine documents to ensure fees are allocated correctly in line with Terms and Conditions, Deposit Accounts, and relevant statutory instruments.
- Action credit and debit card payment requests.
- Process fees on fee-bearing forms submitted under UK and international legislation.
- Log all relevant forms onto COPS and notify Index and Scanning teams once complete.
- Identify and allocate both fee and non-fee bearing patent forms and documents.
- Log and forward later-filed documents received electronically via PDAX.
- Handle telephone and email queries relating to filing dates, fees, and customer accounts from both internal and external customers.
- Issue receipts for new patent applications following data capture, ensuring applications comply with Section 15 of the Act.
- Prepare paper-filed applications for security checks.
- Manage, investigate, and resolve mailbox queries in a timely manner.
Hybrid Working Information
This role is carried out in line with IPO Hybrid Working Arrangements. You will be required to attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week (20% of working hours). While there is flexibility in choosing your onsite day, attendance will also be required for training and other business-essential activities, sometimes at short notice.
Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.
As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.
Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.
In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.