Senior Management Opportunity – Head of Family Law Department
 Location: Leamington Spa or Banbury (with flexible hybrid working)
 Salary: Up to £70,000 – negotiable, in line with experience

Are you an experienced Family Law Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive ready to take the next step in your leadership career? We’re partnering with a highly respected, Lexcel-accredited, Legal 500-recognised law firm to recruit a Head of Department to lead their growing and successful Private Family Law team.

This is a pivotal senior management position—ideal for someone with the vision and drive to lead, inspire, and make a real impact. With a supportive team, a strong client base, and the autonomy to shape departmental strategy, this is a unique opportunity for a talented and passionate family law professional who’s ready to lead from the front.

• Leading and managing the Family Law Department, providing strong leadership to the team
• Managing Departmental budgets and finances
• Ensuring the development of all staff
• Managing own caseload of financial remedy and private law children matters
• Interviewing and advising clients in all matters relating to family law and identifying solutions
• Drafting correspondence, briefs, court documentation, full attendance notes and statements of evidence
• Continually reviewing cases in the light of new information
• Liaising with experts, enquiry agents, costs draftspersons, counsel and colleagues 
• Undertaking advocacy work
• Assisting the management team in tendering for LAA contracts and ensuring compliance in contract requirements
• Ensuring members of the department have clear training and development plans
• Conducting and coordinating regular performance and file reviews for all team members

Suitable candidates will have:

• Around 5 years’ + PQE as a Family Private Solicitor with experience of leading on complex matters
• Excellent people skills and organisational skills
• Experience of case management systems and time recording
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to deal sensitively with clients
• Accredited panel member for Legal Aid Supervision (Family Law, Family Law Advanced, Children’s Panel or Resolution Specialist)
• Mediator qualification (desirable, but not essential)

This is a full-time permanent job, working 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. Hybrid working will be considered one to two days per week following an initial training/bedding-in period. 

The role is offered with a wealth of benefits including:

• 3 days’ holiday (increasing to 27), plus 8 days bank holidays
• 2 days’ additional leave between Christmas and New Year (office closure)
• Your birthday off, from your second year of employment
• Holiday buy and sell scheme. Buy or sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Company Sick Pay (on completion of probation period) 
• Company Pension Scheme
• Discounted legal fees (on completion of probation period)
• BUPA healthcare scheme (on completion of probation period)
• Death in service benefits 3 x salary (on completion of probation period)
• Long service awards
• Career development and regular performance reviews
• Technical and personal skills training
• Community and fundraising events
• Full induction programme
• Virtual GP
• Funeral Planning and support as well as Bereavement and Probate helpline and counselling 
• Group Life Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual salary reviews

Note: Salary stated is given as a guideline in line with market rate and will be commensurate with experience. The information given above is correct to the best of our knowledge.