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Please see below for current vacancies at Working Families. 

Senior Rights Adviser (maternity cover)

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We particularly welcome applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.

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We generally use Applied for our recruitment. Applied aims to overcome unconscious bias in recruiting. Instead of using your CV alone, we’ll be asking you to answer questions to test skills needed for the role. The responses are then anonymised, chunked, randomised and reviewed by team members.

The Applied platform also asks some demographic questions before you start your application. We never see the responses to these demographic questions with your application. We only see summary statistics to help us check if our candidate pool is balanced and if everyone has an equal chance to get hired irrespective of their background. If you prefer, you can easily opt out of answering these questions.

We are proud to be a generous employer. Our paid staff are eligible for the following additional benefits (subject to the terms of our policies):

  • flexible working across all roles, based on business needs, day one entitlement
  • 25 days’ leave (FTE), increasing by one day per year of service up to a maximum 30 days (FTE), plus all bank holidays (pro rata)
  • 5% employer pension contribution
  • new parenthood enhanced pay and leave of 6 weeks on full pay, 6 weeks on half pay (inclusive of statutory pay and leave entitlements)
  • time off for dependants – 10 days paid leave for emergencies.
  • discretionary enhanced sick pay of up to one calendar month on full pay plus two calendar months on half pay (pro rata) in any calendar year.

Senior Rights Adviser (maternity cover)

  • Working pattern: 22.5 hours per week (0.6 of 37.5 full time equivalent) Some school holiday cover needed.
  • Team: Legal Advice Service
  • Salary: Between £36,400 and £40,000 (FTE) (0.6 of which is £21,840)
  • Location: Remote, with up to twice-monthly visits to London (travel costs not covered)
  • Closing: This role will remain open to applications and will close once the post is filled. We will be inviting candidates to interview on a rolling basis from September.

Working Families’ legal advice services (LAS) team works at the forefront of access to justice for parents and carers at work. Many parents and carers find that the ‘system’ – including employers’ approaches to flexible working, available in-work benefits, leave and entitlement to time off – doesn’t allow them to work and care and thrive. We want to change that.   

We are looking for a professional and enthusiastic employment lawyer to join our team as a maternity cover to advise parents and carers on employment law and benefits, as well as having a supervisory role in the team.  We are looking for someone to join the team from the Autumn 2023 and anticipate this will be a fixed term role for maternity cover.

You will also help to shape the law in this area by collaborating with our policy team by providing information and guidance informed by our service users.  You may be required deputise for the Head of Legal Advice Services in the day to day running of the Legal Advice Service (along with the other Senior Rights Advisors) in the Head of Legal’s absence.

For more details and to apply, please visit the Applied website.

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