Job description
We have a rare opportunity, funded by the Legal Education Foundation, for a high calibre adaptable Trainee Solicitor to join the team. You will have completed your LPC or completed your SQE1 and will work under the housing and public law legal aid contracts as well as having the opportunity to support Shelter’s test cases and interventions.
During training you’ll develop and apply the skills you’ll need as a qualified solicitor:
- advocacy and oral presentation
- case and transaction management
- client care and practice support
- communication skills
- dispute resolution
- drafting
- interviewing and advising
- legal research
- negotiation
The Trainee Solicitor role will support the solicitors within our hub to play a key role in tackling housing injustice and unfair housing practices by using the law to assist people in our communities with housing need. You’ll develop the skills through a mixture of completing work and tasks by yourself, assisting others and observing experienced practitioners.
The postholder will support the solicitors and the team using their legal skills to support challenging and fighting cases that defend housing rights, challenge discriminatory practices relating to housing and create system change by defining or changing the law. The postholder will work with colleagues in hubs to ensure people in our communities are aware of their rights, how to enforce them and represent people who need specialist legal advice.
The postholder will support solicitors and advisers with casework on behalf of Shelter’s clients on a range of specialist housing issues and be able to identify social welfare and debt issues in order to signpost/refer to internal/external agencies. The work will be conducted under Legal Aid Agency funding and to Specialist Quality Mark standards. The postholder may also be expected to undertake work under Shelter Voluntary Income or other funding sources from time to time.
Where appropriate the Trainee Solicitor will support the conduct of legal representation in court including shadowing counsel or solicitors in court.
More generally the postholder may be required to work in a range of different physical locations throughout their community and to engage on behalf Shelter with external stakeholders (e.g., Local Authority, Community partners).
What we are looking for
Accepted degree subjects
Any
Additional job details
- Location
- Blackburn
- Salary
- £27,528 per annum
plus excellent benefits
- Contract, dates and working times
- Fixed term
Full-time
How to apply
Please apply via the listing on Legal Education Foundation’s website.
The apply button will take you to the Shelter website which includes a link to the listing on Legal Education Foundation’s website and a link to the application form. Please DO NOT send application directly to Shelter.
Click Apply to start your application now. This job will be available on Prospects until 27 November 2023
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Closing date: 8 December 2023