Shelter
Paralegal /Legal Adviser
Salary: £31,133 per annum pro rata
Location: Merseyside
Fixed term contract until July 2025 – Maternity Cover
Full time – 30 hours per week, working pattern to be negotiated with the successful candidate
Closing date: Wednesday 17th July 2024 at 11.30 pm
We’re looking for an enthusiastic individual with legal experience to join us as a Paralegal/Legal Adviser and provide the support we need to help us deliver an effective local service. This is an exciting opportunity and you will play a key part in standing up to the housing emergency.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet every day millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything,
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
About the Team
Our Legal team is based around England and is made up of over 100 people, delivering housing advice and litigation services for our clients. Working closely with other teams in Shelter Services, we take referrals from them including certified litigation work, controlled work and Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes.
Shelter Merseyside has been providing housing advice and support services to local people for over 20 years, helping those facing bad housing and homelessness. The Hub work in partnership with a range of organisations to improve the underlying systems that prevent people from living securely in suitable, safe, affordable accommodation. You will be working alongside the Housing Rights Workers, Management and Administration teams, Community Organising and Lived Experience Teams to bring about systemic change locally.
About the Role
This is a great chance to help us ensure we provide our clients with a full service. You will assist our solicitors to maintain an active caseload to enable homeless people, as well as those with housing and related problems, to enforce their rights. Your role will be varied and will include taking instructions and witness statements, drafting letters, making applications, providing court representation. You will also ensure time recording and income targets are met.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About you
You will need a sound understanding of litigation work and be able to carry out legal research, with the ability to provide a good standard of professional service and client care. You enjoy collaborating as part of a team, respond quickly and positively to change and are not afraid to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas when appropriate.
What’s more, you will have excellent communication skills – having taken the facts into account, you are able to communicate your thoughts clearly both in writing and face-to-face. Housing law experience and Legal Aid/ CCMS would be an advantage. Proficiency using case management systems, and time recording will be needed, as well as the ability to manage your time and workload.
Vauxhall Community Law and Information Centre
Housing Supervising Solicitor
Vauxhall Community Law & Information Centre is a small community-based Law Centre and has been in existence since 1973 serving the community of the City of Liverpool. Since 2021 we have developed a vibrant and in-demand Housing service, we have grown to a team of four having obtained a Legal Aid contract from Sept 2023. We are now seeking to employ an experienced Housing Solicitor able to meet the Legal Aid supervisor standard to work with the Housing and Development Team and the Centre Director to continue to develop the department and our Legal Aid Practice. We are looking for the successful applicant to start as soon as possible.
Title of post: Housing Supervising Solicitor
Hours: 35 per week
Salary: SO2 £37,336 – £40,221
Location: Hybrid and office based in Vauxhall, Liverpool
The postholder will support Vauxhall Community Law & Information Centre legal advice service, particularly in respect of Housing and related matters to enable Vauxhall Community Law & Information Centre to continue to deliver a high-quality community-based advice service.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday 10th July 2024, at 12:00 pm Click here to apply
About us
Vauxhall Community Law and Information Centre provides access to justice on a range of social welfare issues. Established in 1973, we support sick and disabled people, people working in the gig economy and on a zero hours contract and asylum seekers, vulnerable migrants and refugees. We are an inclusive and non-discriminatory organisation. We work with and advocate for members of the community that face injustice, irrespective of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, disability or immigration status. We take a strong stance against all forms of bigotry and work to challenge prejudice and injustice wherever we find it.
Our Charitable aims
- Combat social exclusion by raising income levels, maximising benefits and helping to control debt levels through advice work
- Make available to people advice and representation to which they would not otherwise have access so that they can better assert their rights
- Provide a high quality, independent advice service which is free to users
- Reduce poverty and improve people’s sense of health and well-being and promote independence for disabled people and their carers through the provision of welfare law advice
- Promote equality and the active challenging of discrimination through advice and representation
Cambridge House Law Centre
Housing Solicitor
Salary up to £45,000 per annum depending upon experience
and excellent benefits including:
✓ 30 days holidays plus bank holidays and long service increments.
✓ Hybrid working
✓ Flexible working
✓ Employee Assistance Programme
✓ Pension Scheme
Cambridge House is looking for motivated people who are willing to go the extra mile to create a more just society. Our innovative London-based charity has been tackling poverty, social inequity, and social injustice since 1889. We provide a range of services that are designed to improve people’s lives as well as transform society through research and social action.
Our team is very diverse in terms of cultural diversity and lived experience, the roles combine office-based and remote working, and we offer staff a range of competitive benefits.
The successful candidate will:
▪ Deliver specialist housing law services for the Law Centre including advice and casework in areas of possession, homelessness and disrepair.
▪ Ability to meet the Legal Aid Agency supervisor requirements for Housing law or to attain this standard within 6 months of starting in the post.
▪ Be able to generate income for the Law Centre from housing cases to meet annual financial targets and objectives.
▪ Be client focused with a results orientated approach and a commitment to our corporate vision.
We value diversity and warmly encourage applications from disabled and LGBTQIA+ people, candidates who share lived experiences with our service users, and people from Black, Asian and ethnically minoritised communities.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact: gbirdi@ch1889.org
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 10th July 2024. For more information and a recruitment pack please visit: http://ch1889.org/jobs/
Citizens Advice in North & West Kent (CANWK) – Housing Solicitor/Authorised Litigator and Legal Aid Supervisor:
Salary – £35,000 – £45,000 per year (pro rata if part-time role) depending on relevant experience
Status: Permanent
We have an exciting opportunity for a Housing Solicitor/Authorised Litigator and experienced Legal Aid Supervisor to join our small but dedicated team at the start of our journey into legal aid advice delivery. The successful candidate will bring not only their experience and expertise to extend the advice casework we can deliver, but also their passion and commitment to developing the service as we enter this new chapter.
The successful candidate must be a qualified solicitor or authorised litigator with 3+ years post-qualified experience and at least 2 years’ recent experience of working successfully under contract for housing advice with the Legal Aid Agency. You will also be able to meet the Legal Aid Agency supervisor requirements for housing law or be able to attain this standard within 6 months of starting with us.
There is no application deadline for this role – we will interview on an ongoing basis until we have successfully filled the position.
If you are interested, please go to our website atWork for us – Citizens Advice in North & West Kent (citizensadvicenwk.org.uk)
Shelter
Location: Plymouth
Salary: Grade 6 – £42,697 per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week
Permanent Contract
Closing date: Sunday 21st July at 11.30 pm
Are you a Solicitor with experience of housing and homelessness law? If so then consider a move to Shelter you could soon be making a real difference to people affected by the housing emergency.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
About The Team
The Advice team at our Plymouth Hub delivers legal aid funded and non-legal aid funded work throughout Devon and Cornwall. Also based at the Hub are members of our Lived Experience team, who deliver a range of activities with the aim of ensuring the views and experiences of individuals with lived experience of bad housing or homelessness informs all of Shelter’s work and a Community Organiser who works with the local community to fight the housing emergency. People are at the heart of the services we offer and, in order to keep growing and evolving to suit the communities we work with and bring about real change, we need to understand what really matters for people.
Our Legal Service provides specialist legal knowledge across Shelter through four teams covering Community Legal advice, Strategic Litigation, the National Legal Team and Legal Support Team. You will be part of our Community Legal Team, who are based across our 11 hub locations and work alongside hub colleagues every day to fight housing injustice and deliver systemic change relating to housing practice in our local communities.
About the role
Using your legal expertise, you will play a key role in tackling housing in justice and unfair housing practices. You will be working under our Legal Aid contract, delivering legal advice and representing tenants at court where needed. Delivering systemic change through legal challenge to prevent homeless will also be a considerable part of the role.
About You
Qualified as a Solicitor, you will have a strong knowledge of housing law and be used to managing your own caseload. You have strong skills in advocacy, litigation, and file reviews. If you meet the Supervisor status for legal aid purposes that would be preferable but isn’t essential, as is experience of working under a legal aid contract.
Apply via Shelter website here: https://my.corehr.com/pls/shlrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=1&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=054129