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Access to justice strengthens our democracy and changes people’s lives. 

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.

Are you an experienced solicitor or caseworker? We are looking to expand our teams to support our vital work in Birmingham and Coventry in all areas of law including: housing, immigration, welfare benefits, housing, community care, employment, and public law.  

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Why work for us?

Make 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

Work with those clients to help them navigate problems better in the future and keep their lives on track

Form 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

Build an alliance of organisations committed to identifying and tackling systemic injustice using legal processes

Read about our vision and strategy

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 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 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.

Current vacancies

Please click on the job title for more information and to obtain an application pack.  If you would like to discuss a vacancy in more detail please contact [email protected] or telephone 02476 223053.

When submitting a job application to Central England Law Centre please complete and include a copy of our i) Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form; ii) Compliance Statement (Privacy Notice).

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