What's involved with this role: Interim Lawyer Advocate - Legal Services Job Ref: Gloucestershire 5255264 Pay Rate: £43.12 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 5-6 months City: GLOUCESTER As a member of the County Council’s Legal Team, to provide high quality legal services in the areas of Allocated Advice Areas. Key Responsibilities: Provide high quality legal services Undertake advocacy and represent the Council in the Court arena. Represent Legal Services, the Council and external clients in meetings, including committee and member meetings, inquiries and working groups and in discussions with other legal practitioners at an appropriate level as and when required Contribute to the development and delivery of legal services. Exhibit the employee behaviours as indicated in the Council’s People Strategy. Deal with sensitive issues with tact and confidentially. Provide innovative, creative advice to clients in a pressurised environment Highly developed negotiating and listening skills with various groups of people and in a variety of different settings, including some of which may potentially end in conflict Qualifications: Qualified barrister, Solicitor or a Chartered Legal Executive Membership of the relevant professional body Knowledge: Reasonable knowledge of English law and practice Experience: Experience of undertaking advocacy in court together with contested hearings requiring the cross examination of witnesses in court. Experience of working in local government Skills & Abilities: Good interpersonal and communication skills to be able to advise members, staff, other organisations and members of the public courteously and efficiently in person and by telephone. Good research and problem solving skills with ability to convey complex legal and factual issues to various audiences. Good research and IT skills including the ability to use a case management system Ability to work collaboratively with professionals and client departments in order to build excellent working relationships and one which is supportive to the client department. Ability to share knowledge and expertise to develop colleagues and clients and to be part of a team. Able to respond to a changing pattern of demand at work which can be unpredictable and unplanned. An ability to acquire and maintain knowledge Conversant with Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please