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N10, London (Hybrid)
£37,673 - £45,019 per year (depending on skills and experience)
Full-time
Permanent
Job description

At Ambitious about Autism, we're currently looking for a Legal Advisor – Transitions and Welfare to join our team.

You'll provide legally-based advice, information and advocacy to the families and young people in our educational settings on a range of welfare issues including social care, health and special educational needs.

You'll deliver professionally written and spoken advocacy skills to support families, drafting representations to help families access services, support or placements they are seeking for their child or young person. You'll support families to access remedies (mediation, SEND Tribunal, judicial reviews) available to families when they are refused the support to which they are entitled, and to make any necessary referrals.

We are looking for someone who has:

  • Knowledge and experience of children's and adult's education and social care legal frameworks
  • Experience of providing legally-based advice, support and representation to families with disabled children and young people
  • Knowledge of the different local authority and public bodies that may be involved in complex welfare cases
  • Understanding of and ability to refer families to remedies where authorities have made decisions that families are unhappy with

In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible, hybrid working and more!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the young people we work with. Please find our full recruitment pack on the link below.

If you have any questions about the role or would like to have a confidential chat, please contact James Axford, Recruitment Officer.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.

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Ambitious about Autism View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 101 - 500
Posted on: 19 March 2025
Closing date: 10 April 2025 at 00:30
Tags: Advice / Information, Legal / Law, Advocacy, Autism, Child Protection, Compliance / Quality

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