Solicitor- Sheffield

SHELTER; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 43,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Solicitor to join their team in Sheffield. This role involves using your legal expertise to tackle housing injustices and provide essential support to tenants facing homelessness. You will deliver legal advice, represent clients in court, and work collaboratively to ensure community awareness of housing rights. With a commitment to social justice, this position offers the chance to make a significant impact on people's lives. Join a passionate team dedicated to defending the right to a safe home and contribute to systemic change in housing practices.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Pension

Interest-free travel loans

Tenancy deposit loan

Payroll giving

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Qualified Solicitor with 3+ years of experience in housing law.
• Strong skills in court advocacy and litigation.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice and represent tenants in court.
• Deliver systemic change through legal challenges.

Skills

Housing Law

Court Advocacy

Litigation

Report Writing

File Reviews

Education

Qualified Solicitor

Job description

Location: Sheffield
Salary: Grade 6 - £42,697 per annum
Full time: 37.5 per week
Contract: Permanent

Closing date: Thursday 1st May 2025 at 11.30 pm

Are you a Solicitor with experience of housing and homelessness law and Legal Aid? If so, then consider a move to Shelter; you could soon be making a real difference to people affected by the housing emergency.

About the role

Using your legal expertise, you will play a key role in tackling housing injustice and unfair housing practices. You will be working under our Legal Aid contract, delivering legal advice and representing tenants at court where needed. Delivering systemic change through legal challenge to prevent homelessness will also be a considerable part of the role. You will work with the team in the Hub to ensure that people in the community are aware of their housing rights and how to enforce them, as well as providing support to Trainee Solicitors and Legal Advisers, ensuring good practice and compliance.

About You

Qualified as a Solicitor with at least three years post-qualifying experience, you will have a strong knowledge of housing law and substantial experience of managing a wide range of housing cases. You have strong skills in court advocacy, litigation, report writing, and file reviews, and are able to meet financial targets. You will be able to meet the 2018 SQM supervisor standard in housing and demonstrate experience of working under a legal aid contract.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family-friendly policies, pension, and interest-free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme, and an employee assistance programme.

About Shelter

Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet every day, millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.

We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.

We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable, and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

About The Team

Our Legal Service provides specialist legal knowledge across Shelter through four teams covering Community Legal Advice, Strategic Litigation, the National Legal Team, and the Legal Support Team. You will be part of our Community Legal Team, who are based across our 11 hub locations and work alongside hub colleagues every day to fight housing injustice and deliver systemic change relating to housing practice in our local communities.

Shelter Sheffield has a housing legal contract as well as a contract to deliver the County Court Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service at Sheffield and Doncaster. You will be based in the Sheffield community hub, which has the overall aim of preventing homelessness and improving homelessness services for the people of South Yorkshire.

The advice and support team in Sheffield has been established for over 20 years, taking a holistic approach and focusing on emergency homelessness, support for children, families, and people experiencing domestic abuse, as well as those with multiple and complex needs.

How to Apply

Please submit your CV with a supporting statement responding to the 'About You' points 1-7 outlined in the job description of no more than 1000 words. Please provide specific examples following the STAR format and ensure you demonstrate how you address the behaviour below throughout your responses:

• We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive and open mindset.

Safeguarding Statement

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing, and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Recruitment Agencies

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