Senior Solicitor

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Pay above SCHADS Award Level 6 + Salary Packaging.

Permanent Full-Time/Part-Time Position.

Are you driven to support the community, in particular the community legal sector? Do you work with energy, curiosity, professionalism, and optimism? Do you want to say goodbye to the burning of the candle on both ends and a hello to a healthy work-life balance? Then, we'd love to hear from you.

The Pine Rivers Community Legal Service (PRCLS), a part of Encircle Community Services Ltd (Encircle), working for not-for-profit, offers the following benefits:

• Annual leave loading
• Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance
• Training opportunities to advance your legal career and broaden your understanding of community services
• Leadership Development and collaboration across Encircle teams to deliver comprehensive community support

PRCLS is looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Solicitor to join our team.

PRCLS operates across multiple locations in the Moreton Bay and greater North Brisbane area, providing free legal advice, information, and referrals, as well as community legal education for vulnerable people facing disadvantage. We also support the Domestic and Family Violence Duty Lawyer Services in the area. Over the years, we've attracted student and professional volunteers who work with us because they are passionate about building legal capacity and resilience in our most vulnerable community members.

Encircle has been supporting people in the Moreton Bay and Brisbane North regions for 35+ years, creating a culture where everyone can be their best, in an environment that values inclusion, diversity, and flexibility. At Encircle, everyone is welcome, everyone belongs.

We are driven to support our community through their toughest challenges, helping them reach their goals. We work with energy, curiosity, professionalism, and optimism - if you work in the same way, we'd love to hear from you

Encircle is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from a CALD background, and people living with a disability.

Working across the Moreton Bay Region, you will support a team of solicitors to provide quality legal services to clients in line with funding agreements.

In conjunction with our Senior Leadership Team, the position will establish operational work plans and procedures which guide service delivery, whilst providing supervisory support to the legal team. Your knowledge and skills gained through qualifications and experience will also enable you to foster and nurture relationships and partnerships.

To be successful in this role you will possess the ability to:

• Provide legal advice, information, and ongoing legal support services to clients.
• Participate in the development of operational work plans for the team and provide mentoring and supervision.
• Review draft communications for the team of solicitors and manage their reporting requirements for the programs.
• Provide high-quality, accurate, and comprehensive community legal services, in areas of law impacting vulnerable community members such as: consumer law, family law, and domestic and family violence.
• If qualified as a mediator or Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, provide mediation and family dispute resolution services.
• Coordinate our popular evening walk-in services when rostered.
• With a strong focus on collaboration, you will build relationships and strengthen networks as part of a multidisciplinary organization to provide referral pathways for clients to other Encircle support services or to other agencies within the region, where appropriate.

You will be able to provide evidence of:

• Current unsupervised QLS Practicing Certificate.
• At least 5 years' experience as a Solicitor.
• Domestic and Family Violence Duty Lawyer Accreditation or willingness to undertake training.
• Qualified Mediator/Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner or willingness to undertake training.

• Demonstrated experience in a supervisory role - providing leadership, developing strong relationships with key stakeholders, mentoring staff and volunteers, and building a professional, collaborative, and supportive team culture.
• Demonstrated high degree of generalist community law knowledge and skills.
• Accreditation as a domestic and family violence duty lawyer or ability to apply successfully for accreditation within a maximum of 3 months from date of employment.
• Demonstrated ability to convey complex legal information in a manner appropriate to the client group.
• Demonstrated leading, supervising, and contributing to an effective small team.
• Demonstrated understanding of Social Justice principles.
• Demonstrated understanding of contemporary challenges, needs, issues, and sensibilities of all people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), LGBTIQA+ backgrounds, and other vulnerable population groups, and the application of Social Justice principles.

A full copy of the position description is available on request via email: [emailprotected]. To apply for this position please provide:

• A cover letter (not more than 2 pages) responding to the 'requirements' and 'key selection criteria' sections detailed above; and
• A copy of your current resume.

Please note that applications without a cover letter and who do not meet the qualifications, experience, and requirements will not be considered.

If you feel this opportunity is right for you and you have the appropriate qualifications, experience, and energy required, please apply by submitting your application via seek.com.au or emailing directly.

Please note that we will not be accepting applications via employment agencies.

Applications will be reviewed and progressed as received. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply promptly in order to be considered for this exciting position.