South London Legal Partnership
Advocate - Social Care and Education
Salary Up to £59, 425 per annum (inclusive of annually
reviewable market supplement of up to £7,000)
Location – Headquarters at Gifford House, St Helier Avenue,
Morden, Surrey, SM4 6HY, flexible working at offices areas across all 5
authorities and working from home.
Local
Government is facing many challenges and here at the South London Legal
Partnership we have embraced this with the formation of a five Borough Shared
Service providing legal services to Merton, Richmond, Kingston, Sutton and
Wandsworth Councils.
We
are working in an exciting innovative environment where we are providing high
quality legal services to our clients. Our ethos is based on excellent client
care where we have a can do attitude but remembering that each team member is
an individual who counts.
We
want to recruit a further advocate within our Social Care and
Education team, to join our existing team of 4 advocates, primarily undertaking
advocacy in care proceedings. We are looking for someone with experience of
undertaking multiple day hearings of up to 5 days.
We
offer the opportunity to work with professional clients, to enhance your
knowledge of care proceedings from a local authority perspective and the
opportunity to provide training to clients. The role offers 31 days annual
leave plus bank holidays and an attractive local government pension.
We
also offer working from home and flexibility of working from any of our offices
across the five authorities and we provide up to date electronic devices to
ensure mobile working.
For
further information about the role and / or the service please contact Mrs Kam
Singh 020 8545 3471
Closing Date: 12 Noon, 16th December 2019
Interviews: Early January 2019
