Solicitor / Associate (Social Housing Litigation) in Newcastle upon Tyne

Are you a qualified Solicitor working in litigation looking for your next challenge in a dynamic and fast paced environment? If so please read on as we might have the ideal role for you. Due to continued growth, we're looking for a Solicitor with 1 to 6 years post qualifying experience to join our established Social Housing Litigation team in either Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our highly successful team, supporting the Partners and Senior Associates across a broad range of social housing matters. This will include advising on and managing litigation relating to tenancy breaches and anti-social behaviour, handling possession and injunction applications, defending housing disrepair claims brought by tenants, and providing advice on tenancy clauses, succession, mutual exchange, and assignment issues. You'll work with some of our key clients, comprising both Housing Associations and Local Authorities.

What will I be doing?

• You’ll contribute to the department's wider business development objectives and initiatives to strengthen and expand client relationships.
• Supervise and assist junior members of the litigation team where appropriate and as required in relation to other litigation queries.
• Attending, and representing clients at, Court hearings.

You’ll have:

• Previous experience in social housing litigation.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance cost and benefit.
• The ability to work to challenging timescales, to plan and organise effectively whilst maintaining exceptional client service through strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills.
• Excellent all-round management and communication skills, as well as sound professional judgment.
• A pro-active, enthusiastic, and committed approach to clients with the ability to establish rapport and effective working relationships.
• Good prioritisation skills and be able to work with urgency to move matters forward.
• An efficient and methodical approach.
• Flexibility to adapt working styles and use different approaches where required.
• The ability to work independently using your own initiative as well as working as part of a team.

About us

We’re proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we’re one of the UK’s Top 100 law firms. When you join us you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We’re passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health & wellbeing benefits.
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2-3 days per week working from one of our office locations.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact people@wardhadaway.com quoting vacancy reference NTX1173704. If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.

Agencies - please note that we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.