£46,500 - £51,417 per annum
Legal Manager: £51,417 per annum (FTE)
Senior Legal Caseworker: £46,500 per annum (FTE)
Why Access Social Care Exists Every day millions of older and disabled people are denied the social care they need. Most local authorities can’t meet the growing demand for care, and none are confident they can meet their legal duties in the future. This affects all of us - we will all need care at some point in our lives.
We all have a right to hold public bodies to account, but most of us cannot afford lawyers so rely on legal aid. The 92% drop in legal aid cases since 2010 means that we have nowhere to turn. Without access to justice, our rights do not exist.
What we do Access Social Care (‘ASC’) provides legal advice and information for people with adult social care needs, helping achieve a better quality of life. We work with communities to increase knowledge of the law and our rights.
Our legal team provide access to justice when things go wrong. We are working towards a future where adult social care is adequately funded, and we all get the support we need.
We provide rights awareness training to front line managers, and legal advice and casework support to families and individuals. As well as providing access to justice, our aim is to drive system level change through evidence-led influencing and strategic casework.
This is an exciting time to join ASC. We have a new strategy. We are dedicated to the people who need our help, and we care deeply about our team. We think that work should be an exciting and satisfying place to be.
About the role - Legal Manager: our legal managers are qualified lawyers who lead our team’s work by 1) holding a caseload of more complex matters; 2) developing and delivering legal rights training to partner organisations and other groups; and 3) supervising and line managing more junior members of the team. Legal mangers have significant experience supervising and managing a team of caseworkers and providing top level guidance on how best to tackle complicated legal issues related to care in the community.
- Senior Legal Caseworker: our senior legal caseworkers focus on 1) a significant caseload of complex community care matters; 2) developing and delivering legal rights training to partner organisations and other groups; and 3) providing casework supervision (but not line management) to other members of the team. Senior legal caseworkers are developing their experience in supervising and supporting other members of the team and providing top level guidance on how to tackle legal issues, whilst continuing to develop and focus on their own practice and caseload.
Usual responsibilities for Legal Manager role
- Running your own caseload of community care matters:
- Ensuring all deadlines on cases are met
- Able to think tactically, creatively and strategically in order to progress cases
- Relationship lead for one or more of our partners, including overall responsibility for assessing new referrals, legal casework, relationship management and supporting team members working on this account
- Line management of a small team (up to 3 direct/6 indirect reports)
- Being live to trends in casework and reporting these to other members of the legal team and the executive, and creatively finding solutions to repeated issues
- Developing and delivering training both internally and externally and/or taking the lead on another distinct area of responsibility within the Directorate (e.g. data, safeguarding etc).
- Supporting with the development and implementation of team policies
- Contributing to ASC projects on influencing systems change as required
- Undertake such other tasks as may reasonably be required or asked of you in order to respond to organisational need and specifically needs within the legal team
This list of tasks is not exhaustive and will be reviewed from time to time in discussion with the post holder.
Usual responsibilities for Senior Legal Caseworker role
- Running your own caseload of community care matters:
- Ensuring all deadlines on cases are met
- Able to think tactically, creatively and strategically in order to progress cases
- Relationship lead for one or more of our partners, including overall responsibility for assessing new referrals, provision of advice or legal casework, relationship management and supporting more junior team members working on this account
- Support the team to develop our network of external partners
- Take responsibility for your learning and development with support from our internal L&D resources and making use any agreed external opportunities.
- Support the training and development of more junior members of the team, through casework supervision, developing in house training and resources and supporting the Legal Managers and L&D lead.
- Developing and delivering legal rights training both internally and externally.
- Develop and maintain relationships with other professionals involved in working with our clients.
- Undertake such other tasks as may reasonably be required or asked of you in order to respond to organisational need and specifically needs within the legal team
This list of tasks is not exhaustive and will be reviewed from time to time in discussion with the post holder.
Please ensure that your CV and supporting statement
do not include your name – use initials only. This will ensure that we avoid unconscious bias in our shortlisting process. To apply, please provide and complete the following documents:
- An up-to-date CV
- A supporting statement of no more than two pages, addressing:
- The essential requirements of the person specification
Applications that do not include a supporting statement will not be considered. Please send via the button below. Please ensure that your full name and contact number are included in your application email. This will enable us to contact you if you have been successful to the next stage of the recruitment process.
Closing date: 12 August 2026
Interview date: 21 August 2026
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