Safeguarding Solicitor (Childcare)

1. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified solicitor, barrister or FILEX equivalent qualified individual with a passion for Safeguarding law to join our busy and friendly legal team.
2. The successful applicant will be primarily responsible for providing advice and assistance to social services and providing representation in Court in relation to children social care cases.
3. This is an opportunity to work for an excellent employer with many advantages, including a minimum of 34 days’ annual leave including bank holidays, increasing up to 41 days, Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Job Reference: 0003653

Salary: £44,428 - £47,420

Package: Permanent 

Contractual Hours: 37 hours

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified solicitor, barrister or FILEX equivalent qualified individual with a passion for Safeguarding law to join our busy and friendly legal team. Excellent knowledge of Safeguarding law and practice is essential along with a demonstrable ability and willingness to transfer your legal skills to areas of the team’s work that may not be currently within your expertise. Any previous experience of working within local government, particularly in Wales, would be an advantage.

The successful applicant will be primarily responsible for providing advice and assistance to social services and providing representation in Court in relation to children social care cases so they must be able to independently manage their own case load.

They will work closely with other safeguarding lawyers within our small and supportive team of safeguarding legal professionals and will have the opportunity to assist with adult safeguarding cases where needed.

The case load will be varied and interesting and cover all aspects of Social Care. This presents an excellent opportunity for a lawyer looking to expand their areas of practice where no two days will be the same!

The successful candidate will have significant opportunity to develop their profile and skills and they will be able to act as legal advisor on project boards thus playing an important role in delivering positive change and real benefits to the local community. Welsh speaking and writing skills are desirable.

If you want to be a part of our highly reputable in house legal team and contribute to the council’s good governance and legal compliance, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

This is an opportunity to work for an excellent employer with many advantages, including a minimum of 34 days’ annual leave including bank holidays, increasing up to 41 days, Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, Generous family friendly and work-life balance schemes, Flexible working hours policy and Hybrid working – this role will allow the opportunity for significant remote working (subject to the post holder’s preference and business requirements - please note the contractual place of work is County Hall, Mold, in accordance with the hybrid working policy), Access to a range of development opportunities, Free employee assistance programme (EAP), Cycle to Work Scheme, Discounts across UK retailers