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Solicitor

Employer
Shelter
Location
Hackney, London (Greater)
Salary
£35,777 per annum pro rata 22.5 hours/week.
Closing date
2 Jun 2019

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Solicitor

£35,777 per annum pro rata

Hackney, London

Closing date: Sunday 2nd June 2019 at 11.30 pm

Fixed term contract - Maternity cover until June 2020

We're looking for a qualified Solicitor with experience of handling a wide range of housing cases, to join our London hub team and enable those in housing need to enforce their rights and challenge the limits of the law.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

Our legal services have an enviable national reputation for excellence in the provision of housing and community care law. This role is based at our London hub in Hackney: we also have bases in Newham and Islington. This is a great chance to use your expertise to deliver a specialist legal casework service in housing law, including litigation and consultancy work, and you'll also be part of the national legal services team at one of the UK's leading charities.

About the Role

As a Solicitor you'll take on a varied caseload that includes dealing with emergency cases and identifying and carrying out strategic litigation. We'll also rely on you to provide consultancy work, technical supervision and delegate work to ensure it's carried out efficiently and to the highest standard. Carrying out court representation, including at Housing Duty Possession Schemes, will be important too, as will ensuring funding is maximised on each case. And, when it comes to training and developing others, promoting our legal services or identifying referrals from internal and eternal sources, again, we'll count on you to deliver.

About you

You will be an experienced Solicitor or Barrister, used to working on public and private sector cases on issues including homelessness, security of tenure and possession proceedings, you also meet the 2013 SQM Supervisor standard in housing. What's more, you have sound knowledge of publicly funded Legal Aid work, including legal representation and legal help. The ability to establish priorities and develop clear plans to achieve your goals is also required, as are excellent listening, communication and problem solving skills, sensitivity to the needs of others and a genuine interest in their views.

Benefits include 30 days' annual leave, the possibility of flexible working, enhanced family friendly policies and significant opportunities for learning and development.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them

Company

If your post qualification experience of housing law includes litigation and representing in court on behalf of homeless people or people in housing need, consider a move to Shelter. The ideal environment in which to use your expertise to deliver a specialist legal casework service in housing law, you’ll be part of the national legal services team at one of the UK’s leading charities.

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