# Senior Lawyer – Children’s Social Care

**Company**: London Borough of Haringey
**Location**: London Borough of Haringey, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 56,058 - 64,839 per year
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

As a Senior Lawyer – Children’s Social Care, you will play a pivotal role in providing high-quality legal advice and representation on complex children’s social care matters.

Managing a varied caseload, you will advise on care proceedings, adoption, safeguarding and other public law matters, working closely with social care colleagues to support positive outcomes for children and families.

This is an excellent opportunity to take on challenging and meaningful work that has a direct impact on the local community.

You will join a knowledgeable and supportive legal team that is committed to delivering excellent services across the Council.

Working in a collaborative environment, you will partner with social workers, service managers and senior leaders, providing trusted legal expertise on some of the most important decisions affecting vulnerable children and young people.

The team values professional development, knowledge sharing and innovation, creating an environment where colleagues can thrive.

You will be a qualified Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive with experience of children’s social care law and a strong understanding of public law proceedings.

You will have excellent communication and advocacy skills, the ability to manage a busy caseload and the confidence to provide practical, solution-focused advice to a range of stakeholders.

Organised, resilient and committed to public service, you will be passionate about achieving the best possible outcomes for children, young people and families.

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

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## Skills

### Required
- children’s social care law
- public law proceedings
- legal advice
- representation
- communication
- advocacy
- case management

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