Lawyer - Children's Social Care

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 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.

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work - the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We'll be celebrating all this and more as the "rebel borough" when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey's people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

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.