Leicester City Council
Qualified Solicitor
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Reference: REQ7172
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Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Exciting New Opportunities: Join Our Expanding Social Care & Safeguarding Legal Team
A welcome payment of £5000 will be offered to a suitable candidate with appropriate experience. (This will be paid following a successful 6 month probation period)
Hybrid working arrangements are available with a large degree of flexibility around home working.
As part of our continued growth, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced adult social care solicitor to join our well regarded, friendly and supportive Adult Social Care legal team. This is your chance to be part of a respected, professional service at the forefront of safeguarding and social care law. The focus on the team is on enabling quality service delivery, working in partnership with the client department to help ensure positive outcomes for adults within the city of Leicester.
If you're ambitious, motivated, and ready to make a difference in the lives of vulnerable adults, we want to hear from you.
You will hold responsibility for a diverse and rewarding caseload of adult social care and related matters, providing quality legal advice and support including undertaking advocacy for the Council.
This is a career graded post (LG Band 9-LG Band 11). Appointment to a level will depend on the outcome of the selection process and experience of the successful candidate. Progression will be by satisfactory performance, agreed at annual appraisals and through on-going supervision.
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What You Will Need
- Post qualification experience of adult social care cases including mental health, community care and judicial review.
- Demonstrable advocacy, negotiating and advisory skills together with a good appreciation of risk management.
- Highly motivated with strong organisational skills and a pro-active approach which will ensure that you are able to successfully prioritise work.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, to work with a wide range of people and represent the service in a professional, client focused manner.
What We Can Offer You
Leicester City Council is an exciting and innovative place to work. We offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. This includes a flexi-time scheme, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and a generous holiday entitlement. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator. We work hard to ensure that our people are well supported, both at a senior level and by your peers. We will also give you the chance to both use your professional skills and expertise and develop new ones with a variety of training and development opportunities.
We are committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we have designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We will do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.
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If you are an Adult Social Care Solicitor or appropriately qualified legal professional with rights to conduct litigation, and are looking for your next role and this sounds like your kind of place, then please get in touch. Candidates from both Local Government and Private Practice are welcomed.
If you would like an informal chat about this post, please contact Vicky Sowah, Principal Solicitor Tel 0116 454 1385 or email vicky.sowah@leicester.gov.uk. Alternatively, Susan Holmes, Head of Law, Social Care & Safeguarding Tel: 0116 454 1402 or email susan.holmes@leicester.gov.uk.
Assessment/interviews will take place week commencing Monday 5th October 2026.
Region: Central
Location: Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices
Salary: GBP44,253 - GBP56,293 per year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement) GBP76,540
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
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