Legal consultant London, England
Job description
Job Title –Legal Consultant
Contract –2 days per week, permanent.We are happy to talk flexibility.
Salary –£48,500 per year (Full time)
Location –home or office based (London), with some attendance in the office expected if based at home.
The Coram Group
Coram is a progressive and responsive group of children’s charities, which draws upon a distinguished history and reputation for contemporary practice in creating better chances for children. With some 700 staff, a distinctive headquarters near King’s Cross and service delivery teams across the UK, the Coram group works across the care, welfare, rights and education of children. Coram strives to be a credible, respectful, professional, dynamic and committed organisation and these values infuse all we do to promote resilience for children.
CoramBAAF
CoramBAAF is the leading professional membership body in the UK for family placement policy and practice. It is dedicated to improving the outcomes of children and young people in care in England with strong links to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The focus is on providing a wide range of services to its members. CoramBAAF operates to support and represent members, champion best practice and provide high quality evidence-based policy and practice guidance, advice, training and resources.
About the role
The Policy, Research and Development (PRD) team consists of consultants who specialise in different forms of family placement from an interdisciplinary perspective including social work, legal, health and research.
We are looking for a qualified solicitor, barrister or legal executive with extensive knowledge of family and/or childcare law to join us to work on legal matters relating to children in care and adopted children and adults as part of a job share with the current legal consultant.
Core to the role is developing policy and practice in relation to adoption, fostering, kinship, adoption support and wider family placement issues, and the contribution to membership services and products, including advice, publications, conferences, briefings, practice notes and forms. The post-holder will also act as link consultant to the Legal Advisory Committee.
The team works in a hybrid work pattern with some attendance in the office necessary.
For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.
To apply, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing date: 10am, Friday 17 February
Interview date: Thursday 23 February 2023
Coram (entity) is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and families we help.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
