Senior Housing Solicitor (35 hours per week)

The housing team at Southwark Law Centre delivers specialist legal advice and assistance including outreach, telephone and email advice to frontline advice agencies as well as the full range of housing casework. The need for our services has never been greater.

We are seeking an experienced housing solicitor to lead our housing team in Lewisham and to work closely with our housing team in Southwark.

The successful applicant will have:

• At least 3 years’ recent experience of providing LAA Contract housing advice and representation under the legal help and legal aid schemes in particular in the areas of disrepair, possession and homelessness

• Ability to meet the Legal Aid Agency supervisor requirements for Housing law

• Experience of working to legal deadlines/time limits and managing a sizable and complex caseload

Southwark Law Centre is committed to promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion. We welcome 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.

SLC has adopted an agile working policy and all staff are set up to be able to work partly from home or from our offices in Southwark and Lewisham.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role please contact: Stacey.edgar@southwarklawcentre.org.uk

Terms and conditions include:

• Excellent Pension Scheme

• Flexible working policy

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

For an application pack please visit: www.southwarklawcentre.org.uk

Closing date for applications: 5:00pm 27 June 2025

Interviews will take place: week commencing 7 July 2025

Our policy re: starting salary in the range - NJC scale SP 37-41 £50,646 - £54,684

• Relevant casework experience 3-4 years SP37 -38

• Relevant casework experience 4-5 years SP39-40

• Relevant casework of 5 years + SP41