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Childcare Solicitor
| Posting date: | 24 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35.45 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE max |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE1 1FQ |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Leicester 0009 F3A7 / 1 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim Childcare Solicitor
Reference no: Leicester 0009 F3A7 / 1
Pay Rate: up to £35.45 per hour PAYE max
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: Leicester
Hybrid working and needs to attend own hearings.
As an experienced child care solicitor, you will provide an advanced level of legal advice and representation in the field of childcare
Key duties:
Conduct robust legal assessments and evaluations in public law children cases, ensuring all work meets high professional and evidential standards.
Proactively identify safeguarding risks, legal conflicts, and case complexities, escalating matters appropriately and in line with child protection procedures.
Manage a busy and sensitive caseload within court deadlines and statutory timeframes, liaising effectively with clients, social workers, and external counsel.
Provide clear, well-reasoned legal advice and representation based on up-to-date childcare legislation, case law, and local authority policy.
Undertake in-depth legal research and develop creative, legally sound strategies to resolve complex issues in care proceedings and related children’s matters.
Key requirements:
Must be a qualified solicitor, barrister or chartered legal executive and hold a current practising certificate
Advanced level of knowledge in childcare law, practice and procedure
Substantial experience of working in a legal environment and commensurate knowledge of law, practice and procedure
Experience of holding and managing a legal caseload of a complex, specialist nature
Experience of undertaking research, problem solving, drafting and analyses of high-level complexity, and resolve associated issues, conflicts and anomalies
Advanced verbal communication skills and proficient at giving clear, accurate and timely advice
Skills in research, analyses and problem solving
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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Job Ref: Leicester 0009 F3A7 / 1
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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