Qualified Lawyer Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices

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Job reference REQ7038 Date posted 20/02/2026 Application closing date 10/05/2026 Location Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices Salary £42,839 - £54,495 Per Year (pro rata for part time hours) Package Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement):£74,308 Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Job category/type Legal Attachments Job Specification Grade 9.pdf Job Specification Grade 10.pdf Job Specification Grade 11.pdf

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 12 Months

Part Time / 30 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 6 Months

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our well regarded, friendly and supportive Child Protection legal team. We are now looking to recruit to two fixed term contracts to cover maternity leave and twopermanent position. The focus of the team is on enabling quality service delivery, working in partnership with the client department to help ensure positive outcomes for children within the city of Leicester.

You'll hold responsibility for a public law caseload, providing quality legal advice and support including undertaking advocacy on behalf of the Council. The team deals with a wide range of child protection legal work. As such, we offer a challenging but rewarding workload which will be diverse but manageable.

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. Dependent on availability of work/vacancy at a higher level, progress will be by satisfactory performance, agreed at annual appraisals and through on-going supervision.

You'll have subject area experience and demonstrable advocacy, negotiating and advisory skills together with a good appreciation of risk management. You will be highly motivated with strong organisational skills and a pro active approach which will ensure that you are able to successfully prioritise work. Your excellent communication skills, both written and oral, will ensure that you are able to work with a wide range of people and represent the service in a professional, client focused manner.

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 trainingand development opportunities. Hybrid working arrangements are available, mixing both home and office working, but time spent at the office with colleagues is encouraged.

We are committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build acouncil that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we have designed ourrecruitment 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 yourapplication,take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.

If you are a Childcare Solicitor looking for your next role and this sounds like your kind of place, then please get in touch. We would consider candidates with relevant transferable skills and willingness to undertake advocacy. Candidates from both Local Government and Private Practice are welcomed.

If you would like an informal chat about this post, please contact Sonali Unka, Principal Lawyer Tel: /email or Amy Owen Davis, Principal Lawyer Tel: /email amy.owen

Please note that the interview/Assessments will take place w/c 18th May 2026.