• SCHADS Award Level 6, salary sacrificing available
• Moreton Bay
• Permanent Full-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:

• No billable targets
• Salary-sacrifice to optimise your tax benefits
• Annual leave loading
• Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance
• Professional development
• 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.

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. 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.

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 Management 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.

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.

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.

A full copy of the position description is available on request via email: [email protected], using the subject line: Senior Solicitor enquiry via EthicalJobs.