Metropolitan Thames Valley
Head of Legal Services
Location: Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8JS or Nottingham, NG9 1LA with travel to London required
Salary Banding: London £85,294 – £89,783 – Nottingham £76,765 – £80,805
12-month fixed term interim role – 37.5hr week – hybrid based with the expectation to be office based 2-3 days per week
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK’s leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 60,000 homes and work with our customers across London, the East Midlands, and Southern and Eastern England.
We’re seeking an experienced Head of Legal Services to lead our passionate in-house team, driving excellence in social housing law and contributing to our future approach on key issues and services.
You will provide expert advice on complex housing and property matters, with a focus on tenancy and leasehold litigation, and new the impact of new legislation in these areas. You’ll lead a team providing a high-quality service on both routine ‘volume’ matters and more complex cases, ensuring high quality client care for your internal customers in our housing and property teams.
Most of the 15-strong team are based at our offices in Farringdon, London, and regularly work together in person. You can also be based at our office in Beeston, Nottingham, but regular time in London will be needed, especially in the first few months.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing legal team.
- Provide strategic advice on housing litigation and property law.
- Deliver training and share legal expertise across the organisation.
- Ensure cost-effective legal services and compliance with regulations.
- Deliver strong value for money across all aspects of legal work in your control and drive continuous improvement.
About You
- Qualified solicitor or barrister with 7+ years PQE.
- Strong experience in housing law, ideally in a housing provider or local government environment.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and drafting skills.
- Ability to manage change and work across a large, complex organisation.
For an informal conversation with the hiring manager (no agencies, please), contact Katie Simpson on katie.simpson@mtvh.co.uk who will make arrangements.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality service we will complete a basic background check with the Disclosure and Barring service once an offer of employment is made. As this is part of MTVH’s onboarding process the cost will be paid for by the organisation and a new check performed every three years.
Shelter
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Senior Solicitor – Sheffield |
| Location: Sheffield and covering one other location TBC
Salary: Grade 7 – £49,499 per annum Full time – 37.5 hours per week Contract: Permanent Closing date: Monday 8th December 2025 at 11.30 pm Join Shelter as a Senior Housing Solicitor, in our mission to drive systemic change and fight for Justice. If you are a dedicated Solicitor with specialist knowledge in housing and homelessness law, and a strong commitment to addressing the housing crisis we welcome you to apply for this role. At a time when the housing emergency continues to deepen, your experience could help transform lives and challenge the systems that perpetuate injustice. Come and play a central role in our mission as a Senior Solicitor to lead a team to defend the right to a safe, and secure home. Working with Shelter means being part of a passionate team that believes a safe home is a fundamental right. Here, your legal skills don’t just change lives—they shape a fairer housing system. Please note this role is being advertised as Senior Solicitor but on appointment the job title will be Managing Solicitor. About the role You will ensure you and your team will deliver high quality legal services and manage our Legal Aid Contract, with your main focus being on your own caseload and to manage and supervise the legal teams who are advocating for clients with housing issues, as well as bringing about systemic change. You will be dealing with personnel issues, providing professional support and supervision to your team, including but not limited to, independent file reviews (IFRs), time recording and good case management, as well as carrying your own caseload of housing litigation. Contributing to the strategic direction of Shelter legal services nationally will be an important aspect of the role too, as will taking the lead on delivering strategic change aligned to Shelter’s strategy and ensuring Legal aid contract requirements and performance targets are met. You will be able to identify test case opportunities to address systemic bad practice and so achieve change for a greater number of people and will work closely with the Head of Legal Services, the Hub Management Team and teams within Communications, Policy and Campaigns and Business Development. As a key member of the management team, you will also get to play your part in the management of our offices, including attending management team meetings and collaborating with other teams. About you You will be an experienced housing solicitor, court advocate, carrying your own caseload as well as managing and supervising others. You will have a minimum of 4 years post qualification legal practice experience, have supervisor status and have substantial knowledge of housing and homelessness law. You are able to carry out research and policy analysis in the areas of housing, homeless and welfare law, produce reports and presentations. Benefits We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme. About the team Our legal Teams (Managing Solicitors, Solicitors, Legal Advisors and Trainees) are based throughout the England hubs, we are currently based in London, Plymouth, Dorset, Bristol, Norwich, Birmingham, Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, Sheffield and Newcastle. Our teams are enthusiastic, driven and champions for fighting the housing injustice. Our teams whilst generating an income also address the housing crisis. Shelter Sheffield provide housing advice and support to people across the city, with a focus on emergency homelessness, intensive support for children and families, people experiencing domestic abuse and people with multiple and complex needs. A holistic approach is taken to help people deal with interrelated issues that can impact their ability to keep a home and work for systemic changes to prevent homelessness, supporting over 5000 people every year. 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. How to apply Applications through this site. Please submit your CV with a supporting statement with responses to the ‘About You’ points 1-5 outlined in the job description of no more than 1000 words total. Please provide specific examples following the STAR format and ensure you demonstrate how you address the behaviour below throughout your responses:
CVs without an accompanying supporting statement will not be considered. Safeguarding Statement Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies. Recruitment Agencies Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. |
Law Commission
The Law Commission of England and Wales is recruiting a property lawyer for the Property, Family and Trust Law Team. This is an opportunity to work on challenging and high-profile law reform.
This role will primarily involve work on our recently announced project to examine how owners of properties on residential housing estates can be given greater powers to manage their estates, which follows on from our groundbreaking work to reform residential leasehold, including the right to manage. Working as part of a small team with the Law Commissioner responsible for property law, and engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders, the successful candidate(s) will help to ensure the law works for the benefit of those who own property on housing estates.
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