Childcare Lawyer

We’ve got two full-time, permanent vacancies in our rewarding and busy Childcare Legal Team, and if you’ve got the right motivation, skills and experience we’d like you to come and join us. These are rewarding roles and you’ll be part of a team contributing to making a real difference.

Ideally you’ll be qualified as a solicitor, barrister or FCILEx, with experience as a childcare lawyer. We are a supportive team, committed to securing positive outcomes for children and young people, working alongside our outstanding Ofsted rated Together for Families Service.

Of course, you’ll have excellent communication skills, be able to work under pressure and to strict timescales. You’ll also be adaptable, flexible and ready to work collaboratively as part of an experienced team of specialist colleagues, giving advice on all aspects of childcare law. The opportunity is there for you to develop your advocacy skills in range of courts and tribunals, and at a variety of hearing. We will also support your enthusiastic approach to developing your skills and knowledge.

You should expect a varied and challenging workload across the childcare spectrum, including:

- _PLO matters _
- _Mentoring and supporting the legal assistants within the team_
- _Advising on S37 reports_

Don’t worry if you don’t have local government experience as we’ll give you the support you need to develop and learn that area.

There are many benefits of working for Cornwall Council such as a defined benefit pension scheme, competitive salary, family friendly policies and flexible working.

This role can be carried out largely remotely but with some office-based working as required to support the service needs. We can discuss this with you during the recruitment process and we are open to discussion about flexible working.

A role profile can be found here.

For an informal conversation or to obtain more details about the role, please contact Alison White on 01872 322222.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g. race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

Whilst the location/work-base for this role has been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to also work remotely (e.g. from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.

More information about working for Cornwall Council is available here.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options.