Solicitor - Legal Aid

Citizens Advice BANES; Gateshead; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Leave entitlements

Certificate renewal paid

Training & development

Purpose-led work

Job summary

Citizens Advice Gateshead is seeking a qualified Solicitor to deliver high-quality legal advice and casework across housing, discrimination, education and employment law. You will manage a varied caseload with autonomy and support from an experienced team, and benefit from specialist training.

You’ll advise clients by phone, email and face-to-face, applying Civil Procedure Rules to secure strong outcomes and progress on complex cases while contributing to research and campaigns that promote

Qualifications

• Qualified as a Solicitor with current practising certificate.
• Knowledge of the Civil Procedure Rules, court processes and practices.
• Advocacy experience with a focus on client outcomes.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality legal advice and casework across our legal aid services.
• Manage a varied caseload, case files, follow-up activity and time recording.
• Advise clients by telephone, email and face to face.
• Use advocacy, Civil Procedure Rules and court-process knowledge to secure strong outcomes.
• Share legal expertise with colleagues and contribute evidence to research and campaigns.

Skills

Solicitor qualification

Civil Procedure Rules

Advocacy

Communication

Housing/Discrimination/Education law

Education

Qualified as a Solicitor with current practising certificate

Job description

Use your legal expertise to change lives.

Join Citizens Advice Gateshead as a qualified Solicitor and use your expertise to deliver life-changing legal advice and casework. You’ll manage meaningful legal aid cases, help people facing complex challenges secure better outcomes and make justice more accessible.

This varied role covers housing, discrimination, education and employment law. You’ll have autonomy over your caseload, support from an experienced team and specialist training in areas that are new to you.

What you’ll do

• Deliver high-quality legal advice and casework across our legal aid services.
• Manage a varied caseload, case files, follow-up activity and time recording.
• Advise clients by telephone, email and face to face.
• Use advocacy, Civil Procedure Rules and court-process knowledge to secure strong outcomes.
• Share legal expertise with colleagues and contribute evidence to research and campaigns.

About you

• Qualified as a Solicitor with a current practising certificate, or eligible to apply.
• Knowledge of the Civil Procedure Rules, court processes and practices.
• Advocacy experience and a strong focus on client outcomes.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and organisational skills.
• Experience in housing, discrimination or education law, or the legal aid system, is desirable—but transferable expertise and a strong commitment to access to justice matter just as much.

What we offer

• Negotiable hours and hybrid working.
• 22 days’ leave, rising to 25 after two years, plus bank holidays.
• Practising certificate renewal fee paid.
• Specialist training and development.
• Purpose-led work with visible impact.

Why Citizens Advice Gateshead?

We put people first, challenge injustice and embrace better ways of working. If you share our values and want your expertise to make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re Disability Confident

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