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Why work for us?

As a Community Law Centre, we use our legal knowledge and expertise to help to build a more equal society. We believe that legal rights play a key role in this, and our mission is to activate rights in the communities where we work. You would be joining a highly-respected team who are dedicated to:

• Making a difference for individuals living in some of the most marginalised communities by defending and enforcing their rights, challenging unfair decisions and take cases to the highest courts;
• Working with those clients to help them navigate problems better in the future and keep their lives on track;
• Forming close partnerships with other community-focused services to help to place legal rights at the heart of their work and to activate a rights-based approach in their contacts with service users. Blending our work with theirs so that together we can offer more holistic support to people;
• Building an alliance of organisations committed to identifying and tackling systemic injustice using legal processes.

We seek to reduce poverty, inequality and discrimination.  Our approach aims to provide early intervention and solutions that prevent people reaching a point of crisis. 

Our vision is a fairer, more just society in which an understanding of rights and their power is embedded within communities.  

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In 2021 we worked on 4,607 cases for people: 

We advised 662 survivors of domestic violence

We represented 700 people to appeal unfair benefits decisions, increasing clients' income by £5.5 million
 

We prevented destitution for over 517 people with insecure immigration status

We supported 862 people with employment issues to secure £288,000 in financial settlements

  

We supported 1183 people with housing problems, preventing 489 people being made homeless

The commitment, dedication and hard work of our staff and volunteers make this possible. 

My motivation comes from knowing that the law centre positively impacts people's every day lives and that everyone who works here wants to keep on doing exactly that, no matter how difficult or hostile the environment becomes.

Our people are at the heart of what we do.  That’s why we are committed to promoting a supportive, inclusive and flexible working environment in which:  

• all staff are provided with opportunities for training and development; 
• staff are included in the development of organisational strategy; 
• we operate policies that support a healthy and inclusive work-life balance, including:
  • 37-hour working week;
  • flexible working hours;
  • 28 days holiday (rising by 1 day per year of service to 35 days after 5 years of service) plus 8 statutory days;
  • pension scheme membership;
  • access to an employee assistance programme;  
• we create a working environment that meets the needs of all employees. 

Watch this short video to learn more about Central England Law Centre and why people work for us:  

We are committed to the principle of being an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Accordingly, we will ensure that recruitment, selection, training, development and promotion procedures result in no job applicant or employee receiving less favourable treatment because of a protected characteristic i.e. race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, trade union membership or non-membership, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, age, or on the basis of being a part-time or fixed term worker.  

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have made a commitment to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. 

See our current paid vacancies below and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn for more opportunities as they become available.

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Current vacancies

To obtain an application pack or discuss a vacancy in more detail please contact [email protected] or telephone 02476 223053.