Education/ Employment Paralegal, 28 hours per week - The post is initially funded for 1 year

Southwark Law Centre wishes to recruit someone to assist one of our Senior Solicitors to provide casework and representation in the areas of education, employment and discrimination issues.

The successful applicant will

• Have at least 2 years recent, experience of providing advice and information to help people to access their rights in a legal or advice setting. This can be paid or voluntary.

• Demonstrate an awareness of the challenges and barriers to accessing services that people from Black and Ethnic Minority communities, LGBTQI people and people with disabilities face

• Ability to use online and written resources to research relevant law

• Ability to explain complex legal issues in plain language

We have developed an agile working policy and staff can work partly from home and partly in the office in Peckham.

Terms and conditions include:

• 28 Hours per week

• Salary range: NJC scale SP 9-13 £25,602 - £27,498 pro-rata

• Excellent Pension Scheme

• Flexible working policy

• 18 days’ holiday per year plus bank holidays

Southwark Law Centre is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all who believe they fit the essential key skills and abilities required of the role. We encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex (gender) and sexual orientation.

We encourage people with lived experience of the issues we deal with to apply to work with us.

For an application pack, please visit our website.

Closing date for applications: Monday 18th July 2022, 5pm

Interviews will take place on: Wednesday 27th July 2022