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3 months contract with local authorities
Location either be in London or Somerset
To support the provision of strategic, high level legal advice to the Councils, Members and Officers, and support the provision of legal solutions in relevant areas of legal work to enable the Councils to progress with corporate goals.
To provide legal expertise in civil litigation, housing and corporate issues and related areas, in a shared back office support service, contributing to the delivery of a portfolio of high quality, solution focused legal work in more than one discipline and across multiple sites, to customers in different organisations.
To supervise junior members of the team, including trainees and support staff
1.To have personal responsibility for a caseload of legal work, and act as subject expert, with appropriate support and supervisions from a Senior Lawyer or Principal Lawyer
2.To notify all high risk matters to the Senior Lawyer To pick up casework arising in their respective teams during peak times or where additional resources are required to meet demand, and if requested to do so by the Principal Lawyer provide support to other teams
3.To support strategic projects across multi-functional teams, assisting to ensure that an innovative and commercial solutions focus is adopted across projects.
4.To have responsibility for support staff.
5.To carry out advocacy when necessary on own caseload, and not to instruct external support except in accordance with agreed procedures
6.To attend meetings of the Councils as required to provide legal and governance advice.
7.To produce or comment upon reports for various Council meetings or decision making processes.
8.To work some evenings, weekends and occasional public holidays in order to meet the service requirements of customers and in order to ensure appropriate representation of the Councils with residents, elected members, and external bodies.
9.Ensure that the partner Councils are provided with the best legal advice, and that legal advice is appropriate to ensure propriety of decision making.
10.Other duties the job description indicates the main areas of activity for this post. From time to time other tasks/duties maybe required which are commensurate with the general area of responsibility and grade of the post.
Provision and delivery of quality services ensuring a high level of service that is reflective of all customer needs and value for money
Anticipates different customer needs delivering a customer focused shared service which is a cultural fit, is flexible and proactive in approach
Delivers a resilient business, which continuously improves and innovates with healthy revenue streams
Operates an ethos of joint working and operates across the board regardless of location
Delivers capacity and capability to operate business as usual with the capacity and capability to innovate and project manage to support this
Delivers a flexible and scalable platform to innovate, enhance market knowledge and continuously improve
Invests in people and skills to deliver a sustainable business
Provides a transactional service that is multi-channelled, face to face, local and nationwide
