- Challenging assessments and care plans
- Ensuring that local authorities comply with their safeguarding duties
- Identifying judicial review challenges and potential Court of Protection cases
- Acting for āPā via a litigation friend or family members in Court of Protection proceedings in relation to Pās welfare
- Carrying out casework, promptly and efficiently
- Analysing legal matters and advising clients of appropriate course of action.
- Communicating clearly and regularly with clients and complying with āclient careā requirements
- Dealing with all routine correspondence, negotiations and advocacy
- Ensuring that time spent on all casework is promptly recorded and on conclusion of cases that they are billed and payment is recorded
- To ensure, where any part of the work within the department is funded by the Legal Aid Agency that requirements are met.
- Keeping up-to-date with general legal developments
- Undertaking appropriate administrative tasks in accordance with the Office Manual
- Providing supervision where appropriate and/or reporting to supervisors
- Experience of working to targets
- Excellent IT Skills
- Experience of Legal Aid funding and using CCMS
- Experience of privately-funded work
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Bonus scheme
- Health Cashback Plan
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Career development programme
- Length of service awards
- Staff forums and committees