We’re utterly UPLIFTED at having been awarded a sizeable grant, at long last, to sustain our existence – from Access to Justice, for adults’ social care early legal help (and behind that organisation, the Ministry of Justice).
This means we can offer proper jobs to three people, in order to return to a period of stability and growth. We do want proper people, however, to apply! By that we mean only people who are seriously interested in working in these roles and in this sector. This is a serious organisation, with high expectations for one’s work ethic and a commitment to maintaining a positive culture. We haven’t got the time or capacity to cope with people with cvs that haven’t been tailored, or who don’t spell check their covering letters; those who are just thinking of maybe making a move, sometime next year; or people who know nothing about giving advice about the law, to members of the public, but who are just prepared to hope that their interview charisma will delight us…
£50,000 pa fte
A senior community care lawyer, legal advice practitioner – a solicitor or barrister or legal framework expert (or an experienced paralegal with a law degree, used to responsibility for their own caseload) with extensive recent community care advisory experience who will
- take the organisation to new levels of provision of early specialist advice
- deliver ongoing chargeable legal advice and conduct correspondence with councils and ICBs
- supervise the triage team’s advice output, to ensure that high quality responses are prepared for our clients…
- summarise referrals to support transfer to otherwise overloaded legal aid law firms to improve access to the most appropriate advice
- spearhead growth and partnership working
- take overall responsibility for the content and focus of our fortnightly Round-Up on adults’ social care legal developments
- take on a major role in preparing legally literate advice and information for members of the public regarding the forthcoming reforms to adults’ social care charging and costs cap law in 2023
£35,000 pa fte
A junior community care lawyer or legal framework adviser, (whether or not formally legally qualified) with a passion for social justice and good academic public law credentials and at least some local authority or legal aid experience in community care law who will
- support the output of the triage team
- liaise with advocacy organisations and carers’ forums
- be the first port of call for the triage team’s legal questions
- support the management of the preparation of our fortnightly Round-Up and our LGSCO reports output and our social media commentary thereon
This person could be someone seeking to qualify through the QWE route / a legal framework expert who has done advice work in the past. You must have the aptitude for, or be skilled at community care law, probing the client and applying public law principles with confidence. We work through correspondence, so you need to be good at writing and aware of the complaints system, the LGSCO’s work, and ideally, the role of a council’s Monitoring Officer.
£30,000pa fte
An adviser (whether or not legally qualified) but with lengthy or broad experience of providing oral or written social welfare advice advocacy, advice and information – who will
- contribute to and enhance our early in-person services, to get people to the most effective resource and to preserve other expertise for the most needy
- contribute to our fortnightly adult social care Round-Up which generates revenue for the charity
- be involved in the reconfiguration of our database and preparation for the Care Costs Cap Reforms in 2023
These jobs are long-term jobs, although they could be configured to be part-time and flexible, allowing for remote working. CASCAIDr’s model is self-financing and not grant-dependent.
How to apply:
- Your CV (3 pages absolute maximum)
- a 2 page max letter explaining your professional exposure to using the Care Act, and attitude to social services rights,
- your current notice period,
- your aptitudes regarding use of tech to cope with receipt of people’s evidence, the giving of remote advice, legal research and management of internal communications
- the systems you are used to working on;
- your confirmation that you are willing to do a written piece of work in support of your application
- and two referees’ names please – both professional, rather than personal
on the form below, please
Hours: 35 hrs p/w – the work could be done over 4 long days per week. But we are interested in offering the right people a range of flexible, FT or PT work (21 hrs p/w minimum, pro rata)
Holidays: bank holidays plus 6 working weeks
Status/job description: None of these roles will be held out as being done by practising solicitors or barristers – we provide unregulated legal advice via a charitable model.
Supervision etc: – You are assured of excellent supervision, training and diverse responsibilities which will ensure that your career prospects are enhanced by the rounding-out of your existing skills and knowledge that the roles involve.
Deadline: 1st November 2022
Start date: to be negotiated in light of your notice obligations
For hints as to the mix of knowledge, qualifications, skills, attributes, experience and abilities we’re looking for, please look on our site page Be a Caseworker under Services on our top line menu.
Apply:
Please fill in the form below with your details. Please attach an up to date CV and covering letter, with the names and contact details of two referees who are willing to endorse your work and attributes. If you have any questions about the roles or the application process, please contact leeforster@cascaidr.org.uk