Supervising Lawyer and Lecturer King's Legal Clinic
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Closing date
- 6 Mar 2023
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- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Lecturers / Assistant Professors, Other Academic
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time, Part Time
Job Details
The Dickson Poon School of Law is seeking to appoint a Supervising Solicitor and Lecturer to add to the existing strengths of King’s Legal Clinic (the Clinic).
This role will suit an experienced legal practitioner with supervisory experience, who is committed to increasing access to justice. The successful candidate’s legal experience should be in one or more of the following areas of law: employment, family, housing, or welfare benefits. We are seeking a pragmatic and highly motivated candidate to work at the clinic, where we are committed to providing a supportive working environment and encourage and support individuals to achieve a balance between personal and professional life.
Candidates will ideally have experience of teaching in higher education or delivering training in a professional environment. The postholder will be committed to developing inclusive teaching and learning practices which will enable students to have an excellent educational experience whilst also developing their civic duty. Candidates will ideally have experience of working in a pro bono or access to justice environment, either in a law firm, higher education or voluntary advice sector.
The postholder will be expected to train, supervise, and assess students in the Clinic who are working on both Law Clinic modules and extracurricular clinical projects. Excellent project management skills and the ability to make and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders are essential.
The Dickson Poon School of Law embraces equality, diversity and inclusion. We attract students and staff from across the world, from many different backgrounds, with a variety of ethnicities, religions, and sexual and gender identities. We promote flexible working as a key enabler of inclusion. We particularly encourage and welcome applications from women, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, and from candidates who are LGBTQ+ and/or have a disability.
This post will be offered on an indefinite contract
This is a full-time post or part time (0.8 FTE minimum).
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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
- Mini-site
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Telephone
- +(44)02078365454
- Location
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LONDON
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