Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

This is a great opportunity to work as an education lawyer in a busy Lexcel accredited in-house legal team conducting a range of challenging and interesting work. The post holder will carry a varied caseload that covers the wide spectrum of education law work as it impacts on the statutory roles and responsibilities of local authorities for schools that are maintained in law. Another primary area of work for this role concerns the discrete operational area of Special Educational Needs Education Health Care Plans. Such work will cover advice on processes JR pre actional protocols and the conduct of JR proceedings. 

About the team

This is an exciting time to join a Lexcel accredited in-house legal team, which is delivering an efficient and high-quality legal service to enable the council to deliver its corporate priorities.  We are looking for confident, motivated, resilient people with strong communication and influencing skills to be part of our excellent and friendly legal team.

About you

We are looking for an experienced and committed candidate who is able to manage a varied and interesting range of education related work areas including SEND/EHCP advice and litigation, governance and operational advice work.  You will be able to provide advice to clients including the local authority, maintained schools in the borough and external strategic partners in a clear and concise way.  You will enjoy working in a fast paced and diverse environment and be able to work under your own initiative and under pressure in an objective, calm and efficient manner applying sound case management practices. You must also be able to develop and maintain good relationships with clients and key stakeholders.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Attachments

• JE955 Senior Education Lawyer_06.05.2024_v2.pdf