Role: Lawyer REF 126078
Contract Length: Until 31/01/27
Location: Hackney
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £45-£55 per hour
Spinwell is recruiting for a Lawyer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LAWYER
- To contribute to the development and delivery of Corporate & service strategies, policies and operational plans that secure the achievement of service and council objectives.
- To manage a caseload of routine and non-routine legal matters with minimum supervision.
- To provide clear, consistent and accurate legal advice to clients in the Council’s services.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE LAWYER
- Qualified solicitor or barrister (Supreme Court of England and Wales/English Bar) or Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives
- Experience of undertaking a caseload of both routine and non-routine legal matters
- Experience of providing clear, consistent and accurate legal advice to clients on the interpretation of the law
- Experience of using a case management system.
- Experience of undertaking a caseload of complex legal matters
- Experience in one or more of the following areas of law relevant to the team in which the post holder will be working:
- Adult social services
- Children’s Services
- Employment
- Environmental law
- General litigation
- Housing
- Licensing
- Local government
- Planning
- Policy
- Procurement and contracts
- Property
- Prosecutions
- Regeneration
- Trading Standards and consumer protection
- Experience of advocacy
- Experience of researching and presenting complex legal arguments
- Experience of achieving chargeable hours targets.
- Experience of providing legal services to clients to agreed standards and of implementing client care policies and initiatives.
- Understanding of the workings of local government and the issues affecting a multi-cultural inner city area.
- IT literate
- Ability to provide high quality legal services to clients across the Council.
- Ability to manage a demanding caseload of legal matters
- Ability to achieve chargeable hours targets
- Ability to represent the Council in courts and tribunals
- Client care skills
- Ability to comply with practice management and other professional standards.
- To maintain files in accordance with Lexcel requirements and the Office Manual
- To comply with the Law Society and Solicitors Regulatory Rules
- Ability to use a case management system effectively and record at least 1200 chargeable hours per annum
- Highly developed communication skills both oral and written
- Influencing and negotiation skills
- Presentation skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to embrace and implement the Council’s Equalities Policy
- Personal and professional demeanour which generates creditability and confidence amongst customers, Members, Chief Officers, managers, staff, external partners and all other stakeholders.
- Willing to be flexible and adopt new ways of working to manage a varied workload.
- Able to take own initiative to be proactive and work independently to ensure tasks are completed on time and to the required standard.
- Able to take personal responsibility for maintaining and developing professional knowledge and expertise.
- To be able to attend meetings, including evening meetings as and when required
- A DBS check will be required only if the post holder has unsupervised access to children or vulnerable adults during the course of the job
If you are a Lawyer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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