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Human Rights & Education Lawyer

Employer
Actis Recruitment
Location
Greater Manchester
Salary
£tailored to the individual
Closing date
2 Mar 2018
Reference
56919/TML

Job Details

Highly regarded and established law firm based in Greater Manchester is looking to appoint a Human Rights and Education Specialist.  

To complement pre-existing services, this professionally managed practice is looking to make a strategic appointment. The firm is committed to protecting the interests of individuals and has flourishing departments in the areas of Private Client, Court of Protection, Child Care and Welfare Law. If you have specialist experience in one or more of the areas of Education, Community Care, Mental Capacity or Healthcare, we would be delighted to hear from you.   Typical instructions might include:

Educational Services:

  • School Admissions, Placement and Appeals Applicants
  • Child exclusions from school or college
  • Alternative placement following an exclusion from school
  • Challenges involving failure to provide special educational needs support
  • Issues relating to Special Education Needs, Education and Health Care (EHC) plan
  • Challenges to SEN funding decisions
  • Disability discrimination claim
  • Continuing educational and development needs as transition to adulthood

Health and Social Care:

  • Community Care assessments, decisions and appeals
  • Mental Capacity including Advance Decisions, best interests and deprivation of liberties
  • Healthcare Funding and continuing healthcare disputes
  • Special Educational and Development needs (children and adults)

You will find an excellent career path and the opportunity to develop and lead your own team in what is a collegiate and supportive partnership. This is a fantastic opportunity with a profitable, full service law firm. Those lawyers who combine a vocational and compassionate approach whilst delivering a cost effective and often pragmatic service for clients will flourish in this firm here. All enquiries treated in the strictest of confidence.

Company

Actis Legal Recruitment is an independent, specialist consultancy, niche in its market and covering the North West legal business sector.

We have an outstanding reputation for offering law firms and lawyers a high quality service and sound advice in solicitor and legal recruitment. All our Senior Consultants have practised as qualified Solicitors and bring with them real life experience working as a lawyer before becoming professionally trained, legal recruitment consultants. This combination of experience and skills means that our consultants have extensive contacts and networks that open doors into the market that may otherwise remain closed. By sharing these networks and our expertise, we are able to add real value whether you as an individual or part of a team are seeking a new opportunity, or a law firm looking to appoint.

By focusing specifically on the legal sector within the region, our team is uniquely positioned to offer relevant and expert advice. We know the legal recruitment market inside out and we are in touch with firms of varying size and disciplines, Lawyers of all levels of experience and seniority. Based in Manchester, we are well positioned to cover all of the North West legal sector.

We thoroughly enjoy the business we’re in and the lawyers we get to meet. We’re proud of our reputation too.

Our mission statement is “Professional recruitment with integrity”, which extends across every element of our business.

Company info
Website
Telephone
07855 312401
Location
Barnet House
53 Fountain Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M2 2AN
GB

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