Childcare Lawyer

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Salary**:Grade I. SCP 35 £43,421 to SCP 39 £47,420 with a professional bar at SCP 37 £45,441**

**Hours Per Week**:36

**Base Location**:Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6BH

**Assessment Date**: To be arranged

**The Role**

We are looking for several high-calibre child care lawyers to join our busy, friendly legal team. The role will involve you managing a caseload of childcare proceedings and will require you to undertake some advocacy. You will need to be able to provide duty advice to our clients when urgent advice is sought.

**About You**

You will need to be an enthusiastic Solicitor or FILEX with experience of public law childcare work. Ideally you will have experience of working in local government. You will have good communication and presentation skills, good client care skills and good analytical and problem-solving skills, be able to work under pressure to deadlines and want to work as part of a close, supportive team.

**About Us**

This job is based in Ashton-under-Lyne, which is 10 minutes by train from central Manchester, and the Council operates a flexible working policy.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high-quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do, and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things is just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This is a politically restricted post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND

2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND

3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND

4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

**Reference Number**: DPT282