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Childcare Lawyers

Employer
South London Legal Partnership
Location
South London
Salary
£40,887 – £43,734 per annum
Closing date
16 Jul 2018

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Practice area
Children law
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years
Position
Solicitor
Sector
Public sector/Charities

Job Details

Childcare Lawyers

Salary - £40,887 – £43,734 per annum

Local Government is facing many challenges and here at the South London Legal Partnership we have embraced this with the formation of a shared service providing legal services to the London Boroughs of Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

We are working in an exciting innovative environment where we are providing high quality legal services to our clients. Our ethos is based on excellent client care where we have a ‘can do’ attitude.

We are looking to recruit child care lawyers to join our team that provides legal advice in relation to the safeguarding of vulnerable children.   Our team is structured so that lawyers predominately give advice to 2 client departments.

The current vacancies are:

Sutton and Merton

3 (fte) lawyers (predominately based at our offices in Morden)

Wandsworth and AFC (the company created by Richmond and Kingston to provide their children’s services).

1.8 (fte) lawyers predominately based at the SLLP hub at Wandsworth Town Hall

1 (fte) lawyer predominately based at Kingston Civic Centre and Richmond Civic Centre in Twickenham.

We want to recruit and develop lawyers who have excellent legal skills, are client focused and well motivated and who welcome the opportunity of working for more than one client department.

Please specify which vacancies you wish to be considered for in your covering letter.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact Lucy Craig on 020 8545 3805  or Lesley Jarvis on 020 8274 5253

Closing Date: 12 Noon, 16th July 2018

Company

About South London Legal Partnership
 
The South London Legal Partnership is hosted by the London Borough of Merton.
 
It is  a five borough shared service providing comprehensive and high quality legal services to combining the legal teams from Merton, Richmond, Kingston, Sutton and Wandsworth Councils.
 
South London Legal Partnership is divided into four teams:
 
Property and Commercial Team
– The team provides legal advice and support in relation to procurement, contracts, property and employment matters for all councils.
 
Litigation, Housing and Planning Team
– The team litigates on behalf of all the Councils in the civil and criminal courts. The team also advises on all planning and highways matters.
 
Social Care and Education
– the team provides legal advice and support to adults’ and children’s social care teams as well as to the education teams for all councils.
 
Practice Management Team – the team supports the legal service by providing administrative support to the legal officers and practice management support and information to legal services managers.
 
The service has two main office hubs in Wandsworth and Morden but there is flexibility to work across all 5 council  locations .

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