Legal Advisor

2 weeks ago


Colchester, United Kingdom Coram Full time

Job Title - Legal Advisor

Contract - Fixed Term until 31st March 2025

Hours -35 hours a week, 7 hour shifts between 8am and 6pm with 1 hour lunch break

Salary - £ 21,840 per annum

Location - CCLC Colchester Office

About Coram

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UKs most vulnerable children and young people.

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UKs oldest childrens charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

About specific entity

Coram Childrens Legal Centre, part of the Coram group of charities, is dedicated to promoting the rights and welfare of children and young people through legal advice, information and practice. Staffed by lawyers and professionals with experience in child law, the Centre provides free legal information, advice and representation to children, young people, their families, carers and professionals, as well as international consultancy on child law and childrens rights.

Coram Childrens Legal Centre has been operating as a specialist childrens legal service from its bases in Colchester and London for thirty years and became part of the Coram group in 2011.

The Child Law Advice Service is a digital first, Family Support Service, funded by The Department for Education. The service aims to provide legal information and advice to parents, carers and young people each year. This is provided via a range of mediums including free downloadable resources on our website, and one to one legal advice with a legally trained specialist via the telephone

About the role

Your primary role will be to advise parents, carers and young people who are experiencing difficulties accessing legal advice and representation in the areas of Family, Child and Education law. You will join a team of experienced legal advisors responsible for providing legal advice via our low cost telephone helpline and email advice service.

You will be deployed as a Legal Advisor answering the calls that come through the telephone system. You will be provide legal advice to callers to the service and signpost to the website if this is necessary. You will also provide email advice.

There is an opportunity of progression within the Coram Group. The Coram Group contains a Legal Practice, Communications department and Policy and information. Please visit the website for more information.

After training is complete, we offer a hybrid working option.

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing date: 24th May 2024 9am

Interview date: TBD

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Registered Charity No. 312278.



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