Principal Lawyer (Child Care)

Are you an experienced Child Care Lawyer looking to expand your skills, progress your career and step into a leadership role? We are creating a brand new in house Legal Team to support the Northamptonshire Children's Trust. Join the existing Legal Team at West Northants Council, one of the newest and the fourth biggest Unitary Council in England.

As Principal Child Care Lawyer you will sit within our People legal team, supporting the Head of Legal (People) in the management of the team and working collaboratively with our Officers and elected Members in the work they undertake.

You will be our technical specialist with duties including:

• Managing a caseload of child protection cases.
• Advising clients, including elected members and senior officers.
• Advising on policy, strategy and procedure relating to Child Care issues.
• Building highly effective working relationships with clients.
• Supervising and delivering training to a dedicated legal team.
• Providing training to clients where required.

Whilst experience of advising on Child Care Law is essential, local government experience is not. What's more important is a passion for delivering an excellent legal service, a desire to help shape and deliver an exemplar local authority legal service and a drive to progress and achieve your own ambition.

We will consider any version of flexible working you can come up with and encourage those looking to change sector or return to work after a career break to apply.

If you need additional support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, including needing the job description in another format or language, please email for support.

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner.

• Salary Frequency Annual
• Job Reference Ref/24335/8478
• Contract Type Full Time
• Closing Date No Expiry Date
• Job Category Legal Solicitor/Legal Executive