Solicitor

SHELTER HOUSING AID AND RESEARCH PROJECT (LEICESTER); Sheffield (TX); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Pension

Travel loans

Tenancy deposit loan

Payroll giving

Cycle to work

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Shelter is seeking a Housing Solicitor in Sheffield to tackle housing injustices under our Legal Aid contracts. You will advise and represent tenants, contribute to systemic change, and collaborate with our Sheffield hub to promote housing rights awareness in the local community.

They will join a dedicated team within Shelter’s Legal Service, working under the Housing Loss Prevention program, and support Trainee Solicitors and Legal Advisers while upholding high professional standards.

Qualifications

• 3+ years PQE with housing law and Legal Aid experience.
• Deliver high-quality legal advice and representation.
• Challenge unfair housing practices and systemic causes of homelessness.
• Support Trainee Solicitors and Legal Advisers, ensuring high professional standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality legal advice and representation under Housing Loss Prevention and Legal Aid contracts.
• Represent tenants in court where needed and pursue systemic change through litigation.
• Collaborate with the Sheffield team to raise housing rights awareness in the area.
• Support Trainee Solicitors and Legal Advisers to maintain best practices.

Skills

Housing law

Legal Aid work

Strategic casework

Litigation

Education

Qualified Solicitor

Job description

Salary

Grade 5 - £38,724 or Grade 6 - £44,323 per annum depending on experience

Job Reference shelter/TP/1712/230

Number Of Positions

1

Contract Type

Permanent

Salary

Grade 5 - £38,724 or Grade 6 - £44,323 per annum depending on experience

Working Hours

35

Location

Sheffield

Closing Date

18/11/2026

Job Category

Legal

Region / Division

Shelter

Directorate

Services - Legal and Quality

Job Introduction

Location: Sheffield

Depending on the needs of the service, there is potential for limited flexible/hybrid working within this role. Arrangements will be discussed with the successful candidate.

Salary: Grade 5 - £38,724 or Grade 6 - £44,323 per annum depending on experience

Full time: 35 per week

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: Wednesday 18th November 2026 at 11.30 pm

Join Shelter as a Housing Solicitor, in our mission to drive systemic change and fight for Justice.

If you are a dedicated Solicitor with a strong commitment to addressing the housing crisis we welcome you to apply for this role.

At a time when the housing emergency continues to deepen, your experience could help transform lives and challenge the systems that perpetuate injustice. Come and play a central role in our mission as a Solicitor to defend the right to a safe, and secure home.

Working with Shelter means being part of a passionate team that believes a safe home is a fundamental right. Here, your legal skills don’t just change lives—they shape a fairer housing system

About The Role

Using your legal expertise, you will play a key role in tackling housing in justice 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 homeless will also be a considerable part of the role. You will also work with the team in the Hub to help make sure 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

In this role, you will:

• Be a qualified Solicitor - we are open to newly qualified candidates with a demonstrable interest in social justice, as well as those who have 3+ years PQE and a strong track record in housing law and Legal Aid work
• Deliver high-quality legal advice and representation under our work as part of the Housing Loss Prevention Service, which provides free legal advice and court representation to anyone at risk of losing their home.
• Challenge unfair housing practices and systemic causes of homelessness through strategic casework and litigation
• Work closely with our Sheffield team to strengthen housing rights awareness across the area
• Support Trainee Solicitors and Legal Advisers, ensuring high professional standards and compliance.

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 everyday 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, and 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 focuses on emergency homelessness, support for children, families and people experiencing domestic abuse, as well as those with multiple and complex needs.

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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