Principle Lawyer (Children and Families Disclosure Team)

Closing date: 11 October 2026

Principle Lawyer (Children and Families Disclosure Team), 12 months fixed term, full time

Salary: £57,786 - £61,686 (Bar at £60,428) per annum pro rata

Contact: jobs@manchester.gov.uk

Job Description:

Manchester City Council has grown its team of effective team of lawyers, legal officer and business support team who produce amazing, outstanding results with an enhanced vision for the future. Aligning ourselves with Children's Services to deliver safe, efficient, and effective services to families, the enhanced vision is supported by new team structures, an enriched training, mentoring and coaching tool and a new Case Management System. Highly valued by our clients, our excellent relationships and continual looking for better ways of doing things and achieving greater heights produces an innovative, responsive, inclusive and transparent legal service.

We are looking for a dynamic qualified solicitor, barrister or Chartered Lawyer or Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives to join our Children and Families Legal Team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to lead one of our legal disclosure teams and manage a small team of lawyers, legal officer with business support.

Why Manchester?

We offer our lawyers flexible start and finish times with an effective hybrid working-practice model. There's opportunity for development and variety thanks to the way our teams practise in our Lexcel-accredited and supported legal service.

Legal work for public services in Manchester and Salford Councils and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority puts you among the few practitioners in England's first, and biggest, devolved region, where major decisions are now taken in-house rather than in Whitehall and by NHS administrations.