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Solicitor
Salary: Starting salary is £47,380
Working pattern: Full time, Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Closing date: 2 February 2025 at midnight
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We are seeking a dedicated Solicitor to join our team in a dynamic and meaningful role. This position offers the opportunity to combine expert legal knowledge with decision-making and guidance to support legal aid applications across civil and children’s legal assistance.
As part of our committed team, you will play a vital role in ensuring fair and accurate decisions on applications, providing advice to colleagues and the profession, and contributing to the ongoing development of our systems and guidance.
About us
The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) was established in 1987 to manage legal aid in Scotland. We are a non-departmental public body responsible to the Scottish Government. Our main purpose is to manage and continuously improve publicly funded legal assistance and to advise Scottish Ministers on its strategic development for the benefit of society.
If you wish to learn more about SLAB and our direct services, please visit the website.
Why work for us
We are an ethical organisation carrying out rewarding work that can have a considerable impact on clients’ lives.
We seek high calibre people and in return, we set out to provide good training and development with rewarding working conditions. We aim to be an ‘employer of choice’. Should you come to work with us, you’ll discover that no matter what your job or level of responsibilities, you are treated as an individual, with fairness, dignity and respect. Our stable and secure reward package includes:
• a competitive salary with potential for pay progression
• flexible working arrangements and a great holiday entitlement of 34 days per year (inclusive of public and privilege holidays) increasing after five years of continuous service
• a defined benefit pension scheme with a 6% employee contribution
• job security in a stable environment for long term career progression
• support from colleagues within a rewarding, positive work culture
• opportunities for learning and development while making a difference with challenging tasks for ultimate job satisfaction.
For more on working with SLAB and our benefits, visit www.slab.org.uk/recruitment/working-for-us.
About the role
The main purpose of this role is to take decisions on applications for civil and children’s legal assistance, as required, and provide advice and support to colleagues and the profession when dealing with complex applications or queries. In addition, the job holder will represent SLAB at external meetings as required, as well as assist with providing input into the development of our applications systems and drafting our external and decision-making guidance.
This post is permanent on a full time basis.
If you are applying for a full time position on a part time basis (less than 35 hours per week), please give details of the number of hours and pattern of part time work you would be interested in.
Further details are supplied in our ‘General Information for Applicants’ document.
We are an equal opportunities employer, dedicated to being fair, inclusive and a place where all belong.
We welcome and encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ people.
We will ensure that disclosure of disability status will not negatively impact anyone’s application. We are committed to guaranteeing an interview to every applicant who indicates they have a disability, in terms of the Equality Act 2010, that meets the minimum criteria for the role.
For more details about this role and a full list of essential criteria and required competencies, please see the ‘Job Description / Person Specification’ document available on the vacancy page of our recruitment portal.
Completed applications should be returned by midnight on Sunday, 2 February 2025 using our recruitment portal.
