Join Our Court of Protection Team at Enable Law We are seeking an Associate or Senior Associate to join our dynamic Court of Protection Team, with opportunities to collaborate with our Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, and Special Educational Needs teams. This role offers a varied and engaging workload, ideal for someone looking to advance their career. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a fascinating and growing area with genuine progression opportunities. If you are passionate about the Court of Protection and have the experience and skills we are looking for, we would love to hear from you. What you’ll do You will manage a range of Court of Protection matters, including protecting and managing the property and financial affairs of clients. This includes supporting brain-injured and vulnerable clients, handling trust management, tax affairs, and statutory wills. You will provide expert legal advice in line with the Mental Capacity Act and attend clients in hospitals, homes, and care facilities. You will manage your own caseload and build expertise in deputyship work. Excellent communication skills are essential as you will be working directly with individuals, their families, support networks, the Court of Protection and the OPG. You will assist senior team members on complex and high-value matters, work with deputies appointed by the Court of Protection, and advise deputies on best interest decisions regarding client finances. What we’re looking for You will possess extensive experience in handling Court of Protection matters, including court proceedings and the overall management of clients’ property and affairs. Ideally, you will have worked with clients who have received damages for personal injury or clinical negligence and who may have complex care needs. Additionally, you will demonstrate excellent drafting and communication skills. If you are looking for a forward-thinking firm with the ambition to succeed, this is the perfect opportunity for you. If you have any questions or would like to discuss this role further, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team via email at recruitment.teamfootanstey.com and we will respond as soon as possible. Pre-employment screening Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team. Eligibility to work in the UK Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying and keep up to date with any legal developments. Our offer to you In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, along with 28 days annual leave (plus a day in your birthday month), private medical insurance (eligibility applies) and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters. For further details of our benefits packages, please visit the link attached – Our benefits | Foot Anstey Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, or anything else, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team: recruitment.teamfootanstey.com Why Enable Law? Enable Law is one of the UK’s leading specialist medical negligence, personal injury and mental capacity law firms. Our team of over 80 individuals aims to provide a high-quality service in a friendly and approachable way. We work for clients across the UK and have offices in seven locations across the Southwest, South Coast and London. We consider our people to be our most asset and therefore, offer continual opportunities for support and professional development. Meet the team: https://www.enablelaw.com/meet-the-team/ Enable Law are a part of Foot Anstey group. Foot Anstey LLP is one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart. Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from nine locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton and London, as well as a ‘hub’ base in Oxford and Manchester. Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you. Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application. Foot Anstey. Seriously Ambitious.