Role: Childcare Advocate REF 112379
Contract Length: Until December 2025
Location: Reigate, Surrey
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £50 per hour
Spinwell is recruiting for a Childcare Advocate for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHILDCARE ADVOCATE
To provide legal advice and representation to the County Council in order to ensure an excellent and continuously improving legal service for the County Council in accordance with its values, specifically as an advocate in litigation on behalf of the County Council at all levels, including hearings of several days and those involving issues of particular complexity.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE CHILDCARE ADVOCATE
- Solicitor or Barrister, fully qualified to practise in England and Wales and who currently has or who is immediately able to obtain a practising certificate.
- Recent significant experience of legal practice in public child care law including significant advocacy experience in this area including contested final hearings.
- Expertise in the law and practice relating to public child care law.
- Excellent knowledge of with the rules of evidence and practice within the family courts.
- A sound understanding of the political and policy context within which care proceedings and children’s services operate both nationally and locally.
- Ability to:
- provide prompt and accurate legal advice
- communicate clearly both orally and in writing
- work objectively, calmly and efficiently under pressure
- contribute to the work of a team and to work well with both legal and support staff, clients and consultants
- work effectively with the Courts, solicitors for other parties and others involved to ensure effective and timely outcomes for children in care proceedings cases.
- Excellent advocacy and research skills.
- Reliable and conscientious.
- Willingness to work flexibly and be able to adapt as necessary.
- Excellent negotiation skills.
- Proficient in using IT including Word, Outlook (or equivalent email product) and electronic document management and case management system.
- Willing and able to travel within the County
If you are a Childcare Advocate, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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