Coram
Senior Solicitor
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Job title - Solicitor / Senior Solicitor (Child and Family Law)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (although part time will be considered)
Salary range: Dependent on experience and supervisory responsibilities. The post holder will also benefit from eligibility for our bonus scheme.
- £31,000 - £39,000 per annum (1 - 7 years PQE)
- £37,000 - £45,000 per annum (7 – 12 years PQE)
- £40,000 - £50,000 (12+ years PQE)
Location: Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
About Coram
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
One of the nine members of the Coram group, Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) is the UK’s specialist centre for children’s rights in education, immigration, community care and family law, and provides significant international legal systems consultancy. The centre is located on the Coram Campus in central London with a base in Colchester. We champion access to justice through information and advice, legal practice and representation, policy and strategic litigation. Our Legal Practice Unit provides advice and representation primarily under legal aid contract. Our Policy and Practice Change team promotes practice change through training and capacity building to professionals and secures systems change through research, policy and advocacy.
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About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the legal team at Coram, the birthplace of children’s social care. Our small but impactful family law team is growing and we are looking for a solicitor to join the existing team of two senior solicitors and a paralegal. The role sits within a wider team that includes education, community care and immigration and asylum lawyers. It will also benefit from CCLC’s position within the Coram group which includes Coram Voice, Coram BAAF and adoption services.
The role would suit a committed and passionate family law solicitor interested in developing their career within the charity sector.
The purpose of the role is to provide legal advice, assistance and representation to children, young people, family members and carers through casework including private family law cases where the child is made party to the proceedings and a guardian is instructed, care proceedings, pre-proceeding processes, adoption, special guardianship arrangements and disputes about child arrangements. Within the parameters of our remit and mission, our solicitors are able to choose the cases they take on and build their own caseloads.
The post holder will also work with other solicitors within the team to help develop the family law team at CCLC and support junior members of the team.
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We are a supportive and collaborative team with a commitment to wellbeing and a range of employee benefits. We work in a hybrid model with an understanding that family law solicitors are often out at court.
Ideally the candidate would either be on the Family Law Panel or the Children Panel but we could consider candidates working towards them.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing date: Thursday 18th September 2026
Test and Interview date: Week commencing 5th October 2026
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
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