Overview
Solicitor or Paralegal Jobs in Doncaster, UK at SHELTER
Position: Housing Solicitor or Paralegal
1 post available
Please make sure you read the following details carefully before making any applications.
Location:
Doncaster – linked to Sheffield Hub
This can be a hybrid role based on service demands
Salary:
Solicitor – Grade 5 – £38,724 or Grade 6 – £44,323 depending on experience or Paralegal Grade 3 – £32,585 per annum
Hours:
Full time – 35 per week
Contract:
Permanent
Closing date:
Sunday 17th May 2026 pm
Join Shelter as a Housing Solicitor or Paralegal, in our mission to drive systemic change and fight for Justice.
If you are a dedicated legal professional with a strong commitment to addressing the housing crisis, we welcome you to apply for this role.
At a time when the housing emergency continues to deepen, your experience could help transform lives and challenge the systems that perpetuate injustice. Come and play a central role in our mission to defend the right to a safe, and secure home.
Working with Shelter means being part of a passionate team that believes a safe home is a fundamental right. Here, your legal skills don’t just change lives – they shape a fairer housing system.
About the roles
Based with our partner organisation, Doncaster Housing for Young People, you will ensure you deliver high quality legal services through casework, the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Scheme and ensuring Legal Aid contract requirements and performance targets are met.
Solicitor
You will challenge unfair housing practices and systemic causes of homelessness through strategic casework and litigation. Working closely with our Sheffield team and the Managing Solicitor to strengthen housing rights awareness across the region, you will support Legal Advisers, ensuring high professional standards and compliance.
Paralegal
You will help our solicitors to maintain an active caseload, enabling our clients to enforce their housing rights.
Your role will be varied and will include taking instructions and witness statements, drafting letters, making applications, providing court representation and making sure time recording and income targets are met. Please note this role is being advertised as a Paralegal but on appointment the job title will be Legal Adviser.
About You
For the Solicitor role, we are open to newly qualified candidates with a demonstrable interest in social justice, as well as those who have 3+ years PQE and a strong track record in housing law and Legal Aid work. You will have experience or a demonstrable interest in legal practice in the private or not for profit sector with experience of working on a wide range of housing cases, knowledge of legal aid, housing, homelessness and welfare law.
You have the ability to research, write reports, time record and meet financial targets, as well as meeting or be willing to develop to meet the Housing Supervisor Requirements (September 2023).
For the Paralegal role you will need a good understanding of litigation work, be able to carry out legal research and provide a good standard of professional service and client care. You will have excellent communication skills, both in writing/drafting and face-to-face along with proficiency using case management systems and time recording, as well as the ability to manage your time and workload.
If you have housing law experience and knowledge of Legal Aid/ CCMS this would be an advantage. You enjoy collaborating as part of a team, respond quickly and positively to change and are not afraid to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas when appropriate.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
About The Team
Our legal Teams (Managing Solicitors, Solicitors, Legal Advisors and Trainees) are based throughout our England hubs. We are currently based in London, Plymouth, Bristol, Norwich, Birmingham, Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, Sheffield and Newcastle.
We are enthusiastic, driven and champions for fighting housing injustice. Whilst generating an income, we also address…
Title: Solicitor or Paralegal
Company: SHELTER
Location: Doncaster, UK
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