Childcare Solicitor

Full Time - Permanent

Grade 9 - £38,813 - £42,683

Legal Services, Moorfoot, Sheffield

Our Childcare team is part of a busy legal department serving the fourth largest city in the country. The team enjoys a varied and stimulating caseload which helps our client department achieve their key objectives of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young people across the city.    

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and hardworking solicitor to work in a busy team dealing with care proceedings and related matters involving children and young people. We are looking to someone who will have the energy and ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines in order to help us provide a vital service for our clients. We are open to applicants from either the private or public sector. If you want to put your experience and enthusiasm into practice as part of a hardworking, friendly and supportive team, then this is an excellent opportunity for you. You will need to show initiative and pragmatism, but you will also be a key player in a team which is achieving good results and is highly regarded by the client departments.

This is a politically restricted post.

We are committed to fairness and social justice and welcome applications from everyone. We value our diverse workforce and aim to work together to make the most of our differences. Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities, which benefit you and the Council.

Informal enquiries to Adam Millward, Senior Solicitor, 07391 731 857

Closing date: 20th September 2020