Child Care Solicitor

**Childcare Solicitor - Dalston/Hackney**
**A Leading law firm looking to recruit dedicated and experienced Family / Children Solicitor for highly sought permanent position.**
**Gemini Recruitment**are currently partnering with a large and established law firm. Our client serves corporate entities and private individuals in over 25 practice areas from offices throughout London and across England and Wales. Our client’saccomplishments are acknowledged and recommended in The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, as a top tier firm.

Our client holds the Investors in People Gold Accreditation Quality Standard Mark and is LEXCEL, Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO 27001-2013 accredited and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

**Family & Children Department Background**:
Our client’s family department is ranked and recognised by The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for family and matrimonial work, providing confidential advice with effective representation. The family team includes practitioners who have achieved theLaw Society’s Children Law and Family Law Advanced accreditations providing advocacy in all court proceedings, ensuring their clients receive a consistent and professional service as well as a high degree of continuity.

In addition, our client’s Family department is experienced in assisting high net worth individuals in divorce matters with specialist divorce solicitors with expertise in domestic abuse, adoption, child abduction, prohibitive steps orders, specific issuesorders, injunctions, spousal and child maintenance, properties, pensions and freezing injunctions.

**The Role**

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**
- Responsible for all aspects of Family & Children Law work including providing technical expertise and guidance to other team members
- Ability to manage and supervise Solicitors, Trainee Solicitors and Caseworkers to manage appropriate caseload types and complexities
- Assisting with delivery of appropriate training and development in the department
- Variety of duties including dealing with a range of Family & Children work including divorce, financial disputes and remedies, international elements of child abduction/ adoption, injunctions/ non molestation orders and providing technical expertise andguidance to other team members
- You will have a professional pro-active approach, strong client care skills and be interested in Business Development and Marketing to supplement the substantial work volumes brought in by the

**Key Skills Required**
- Will support Law Society and Family Panel membership*
- Committed and highly driven
- Must have a clean, valid Practicing Certificate at the time of applying
- Strong management skills
- Committed team player with ability to approach team concerns fairly, foster culture of positive change and encourage cross referrals
- Previous proven supervisory experience and working to key performance indicators
- Professional with a pro-active approach; excellent client care skills and ability to deal with vulnerable client matters in a sensitive manner and resolve complicated practicalities involved in Family Law issues
- Excellent networking and communication skills with the ability to successfully market the Company and generate new business
- Working knowledge of the publically funded Family Law work and have the ability to service privately funded cases
- Have extensive experience in dealing with all Family Law work related work and some expertise on adoption matters
- Experience in own advocacy is an advantage

This list is not exhaustive and there may be other duties as reasonably required.

The company is committed to Equal Opportunities and embraces diversity and inclusivity of its staff and strives to ensure that their workforce reflects the diversity of the communities they serve.

**About Gemini Recruitment and Equal Opportunities**:
Gemini Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency specialising in legal recruitment. We provide a highly focused service specialising in placements for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Trainee Solicitors, Paralegals and Legal Support Staff. We have intimateknowledge of specific opportunities in the legal market across the UK.