Senior Management Opportunity – Head of Family Law Department
 Location: Banbury or Leamington Spa (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.

The role will involve:

• Leading and managing a thriving Family Law Department, providing strong leadership to the team, ensuring they have clear training and development plans
• Conducting regular performance and file reviews for all team members 
• 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

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 onboarding 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.