Applications close 6 October
PRCLS is looking for an experienced and motivated Solicitor to join our team.
About the Team
PRCLS operates across multiple locations in the Moreton Bay and greater North Brisbane area providing free legal advice, information, and referrals as well as community legal education for vulnerable people facing disadvantage. We also support the Domestic and Family Violence Duty Lawyer Services in the area. Over the years, we’ve attracted student and professional volunteers who work with us because they are passionate about building legal capacity and resilience in our most vulnerable community members.
Encircle has been supporting people in the Moreton Bay and Brisbane North regions for 35+ years, creating a culture where everyone can be their best, in an environment that values inclusion, diversity, and flexibility. At Encircle, everyone is welcome, everyone belongs.
We are driven to support our community through their toughest challenges, helping them reach their goals. We work with energy, curiosity, professionalism, and optimism – if you work in the same way, we’d love to hear from you!
Encircle is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from a CALD background and people living with a disability.
About this Role
Working across the Moreton Bay Region, you will support a team of solicitors to provide quality legal services to clients in line with funding agreements.
To be successful in this role you will possess the ability to:
- Provide legal advice, information, and ongoing legal support services to clients.
- Participate in the development of operational work plans for the team.
- Provide high quality, accurate and comprehensive community legal services, in areas of law impacting vulnerable community members such as: consumer law, family law, and domestic and family violence.
- Coordinate our popular evening walk-in services when rostered.
With a strong focus on collaboration, you will build relationships and strengthen networks as part of a multidisciplinary organisation to provide referral pathways for clients to other Encircle support services or to other agencies within the region, where appropriate.
In order to be successful in your application you will be able to provide and demonstrate the below criteria obligations:
Requirements:
- Current unrestricted QLS Practising Certificate (preferred but solicitors with restricted Practising Certificates will be considered).
- At least 1-1.5 years’ experience as a Solicitor with experience in the areas of Family Law and/or Domestic and Family Violence.
- Domestic and Family Violence Duty Lawyer Accreditation or willing to undertake training.
- Experience providing generalist, practical, legal advice and information and performing generalist legal tasks to assist self-representing clients (well regarded).
- Experience providing family law and domestic and family violence law advice, with the ability to assist vulnerable people to self-represent (well regarded).