Senior Solicitor

- Pay above SCHADS Award Level 6 + Salary Packaging
- Learning and Development Opportunities
- Permanent Full-Time Position

Are you passionate about making a difference in your community, especially in the legal sector?

Do you bring energy, curiosity, professionalism, and optimism to everything you do?

Are you ready to say goodbye to burning the candle at both ends and hello to a healthy work-life balance?

If this sounds like you, 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
- A role where your work truly matters to the community

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

About the 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.

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.

About this Role

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 the 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.
- Ability to travel and work between various Encircle sites including, Strathpine, Redcliffe and Caboolture.

With a strong focus on collaboration, you will build relationships and strengthen networks as part of a multidisciplinary organisation 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:

Requirements

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

Key Selection Criteria

- Demonstrated experiencing 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 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.

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