Gloucester Law Centre®

We urgently seek an experienced employment caseworker to start as soon as possible, undertaking a full range of employment law casework, including discrimination.

We are a small, friendly team of solicitors, barristers and experienced case-workers, providing a high quality, independent service to residents of Gloucestershire in 4 categories of social welfare law, including employment.

We are seeking, ideally, to appoint a candidate who 1) has sound experience of claimant work as we advise only employees, and 2) has experience of working under a Legal Services Commission contract and meets the self-supervisor standard.  However, all suitable candidates who can demonstrate the ability and knowledge to provide a comprehensive employment casework service will be considered. Ideally, we need someone who can work 3 days a week, although we can be flexible about this. The post is available for about 9 months to cover maternity leave.

The salary offered is dependent on experience, as follows:
• Senior self- supervisor who meets LSC self supervisor standard and has significant relevant experience including advocacy experience: £29,628 pro rata.
• Experienced caseworker who meets LSC self-supervisor standard: £26, 706 pro rata
• Supervised caseworker: £23,405 pro rata

For an application pack please contact Mary Smith via the details below.

We are also seeking on an ongoing basis barristers who can offer to represent employment tribunal claimants on a pro bono basis as we have no funding to cover Tribunal representation. For an informal chat about either opportunity, please contact Anne Whitworth on 01452 835 383.

Closing date: Fri 26 February, 2010

Salary: £23,405-£29,628 p.a. dependent on experience (see above)

Location: Gloucester

Contact: Mary Smith, Administration Manager

Address: Gloucester Law Centre, 79 – 81 Eastgate Street, Gloucester GL1 1PN

Telephone: 01452 423 492

Email: admin@gloucesterlawcentre.co.uk

Alternatively, visit http://www.lawcentres.org.uk/vacancies/detail/gloucester-law-centre/ and send us a query using the form below the advert.

Here is a PDF copy of our latest Annual Report. Once you have clicked the link the PDF file will open in a new window.

Annual Report 2008/ 2009

Again on a financial/ funding note, here is an interesting site for you to have a look at….

http://www.cleversquirrel.com

It gives information  on how it works on the website, but if you want to help make a difference at the law centre - sign up!

Recently, here at the Law Centre, we have been very busy applying for new ways of funding!

Fortunately for us, Access to Justice accepted our bid and have granted us £2000.

As well as this Gloucestershire Community Foundation also granted us £1000.

This money will be invested wisely in revamping the Law Centre to try and get it up to speed with changing technologies, we are trying to move away from being a more paper based office to a computer based office, this will in the long run save us alot of money in paper and save alot of time in copying from paper to computer too! This time of course can be put into casework which will be an improvement to our service!

The plan is to network computers into all of our interview rooms as well as reception, we will also be upgrading our photocopier so it will have a new built in scanner.

A quick post just to say we are no longer accepting Volunteer applications for the time being. This is due to already having enough volunteers within the Law Centre to lend a helping hand.

If this situation changes, the website will be updated accordingly.

This is a post for anyone that lives or works in Gloucestershire and is interested in becoming a Trustee of the Law Centre.

Take a look at the links below for more details and information on how to apply:

Advert

Skills Audit

Application Form

Thanks and Good Luck!

In the financial year 2008 - 09, we obtained £1,080,706.10 for our clients.

This amount will include; backdated benefit, compensation for employment and housing cases, new benefit claims, claims, claims for unpaid wages and successful challenges to demands for repayment of alleged overpayments and council tax debts.

Here are annual reports for 2007 and 2008 . They are pdf files which open in a new window.

2007 Report

2008 Report

In addition to the staff team we also rely on a dedicated team of volunteers.
Our volunteers cover a wide range of tasks for the Law Centre dependent on their skills and experience. These may range from routine photocopying, and simple office tasks through to reception work. If you are interested in learning more about volunteering at the Law Centre please telephone us on 01452 423492 or email admin@gloucesterlawcentre.co.uk. for an application pack

Please bear with us while the site is being updated.