Senior Childcare Lawyer

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Salary**:Grade K. SCP 44 £52,647 - SCP 47 £56,755

**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 a high-calibre experienced senior child care lawyer to join our busy legal team. This post offers the opportunity for a lawyer either looking for the opportunity to gain experience as a senior lawyer, whilst still carrying a complex case and legal advice workload, or equally one already in this position looking to work in a forward-thinking local authority.

Reporting to and working closely with the Head of Childcare Legal, you will supervise a small team of childcare lawyers, hold a small caseload of complex matters to include carrying out advocacy in the range of courts and arenas where childcare cases are dealt with. You will be a highly accomplished and robust childcare lawyer, with a positive attitude and a practical and resilient approach to legal work.

You will assist the Head of Childcare Legal with ombudsman complaints, data protection and freedom of Information requests, including training of social workers and their managers, and form part of the management of the Childcare Team, and wider Legal Services.

**About You**

**About Us**

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.

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**: DPT281