Lawyers
- Employer
- South London Legal Partnership
- Location
- London (South), London (Greater)
- Salary
- £41,706 - £44,607 per annum
- Closing date
- 25 Mar 2019
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- Practice area
- Children law, Social care
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years
- Position
- Solicitor
- Sector
- Public sector/Charities
Job Details
Lawyers
Childcare and Adult Social Care
Salary: £41,706 - £44,607 per annum
We are looking to recruit child care and adult social care lawyers to join our team.
We want to recruit and develop lawyers who have excellent legal skills, are client focused, well motivated and who welcome the opportunity of working for more than one client department.
The South London Legal Partnership, hosted by the London Borough of Merton has recently expanded and now provides a five borough shared legal service to Merton, Richmond, Kingston, Sutton and Wandsworth councils. The SLLP is working in an exciting innovative environment where lawyers are providing high quality legal services to five boroughs. The SLLP’s ethos is based on excellent client care with a ‘can do’ attitude.
The SLLP wish to recruit and develop people who are committed to improving the customer experience, are highly motivated, and who relish the opportunity of working across the five councils. As a result of the expansion, the SLLP are happy to provide an exciting opportunity to handle an interesting workload and advise a number of high profile clients in important legal services. We are committed to developing individuals’ legal skills and will provide exciting personal development opportunities as well as career progression.
The SLLP is seeking to recruit Social Care Lawyers to work across the five boroughs portfolios.
For further information and an informal discussion about the Childcare Lawyer role or the service please contact Lucy Craig 0208 545 3805 and about the Adult Social Care Lawyer please contact Pamela Clarke 020 8545 3474
Closing Date: 12 Noon, 25th March 2019
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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