The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise, which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The role:
Following a successful trial period, we are looking to establishing the Advocate role permanently within the safeguarding team. This will enable us to cover more of our advocacy in house. As this is a new role, you will be an opportunity to shape and influence how it grows and develops. The role can be carried out either full time or part time, what matters is that you are able to willing to commit to doing your best to make this work. The role requires you to have considerable experience of working in the Family Court and be a confident and persuasive advocate.
About you:
You will have extensive experience of undertaking advocacy in the Family Court and be able to hit the ground running. It is a given that you will have excellent communication skills. You will also need to be innovative, resourceful and enjoy working with a high degree of autonomy. You will need to have the necessary legal qualification. Great interpersonal skills and being able to command the confidence of clients in all aspects of your written work and presentation in court are vital. From time to time you will also be required to provide training to clients in developing their courtroom skills. You will also be required to feedback to colleagues on casework and how we can continue to improve the presentation of our cases in court.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page
Additional details
This post attracts an additional financial benefits package of £2,327 pro-rata, per annum (April - March) and 7.5% market supplement.
We will only consider applications from internal candidates, that are current employees or agency workers on an active assignment.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Monday 7th November 2022 at 23:59
Interview date: Tuesday 15 November 2022
SWCINT
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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