What's involved with this role: Interim Employment Lawyer – Legal Services Job Ref: Bradford 5258857 Pay Rate: £24.28 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 1-2 months City: Bradford, Yorkshire The post holder is expected to influence and negotiate with contacts both internal and external to the Council. Contacts will include officers at Chief Executive level and below, elected members, Courts, Tribunals and regulatory bodies of staff, private practice solicitors and barristers and other professionals involved in the area of work of the Education, Employment and Litigation Law Team. Key Responsibilities: Act as a senior case holder and, where appropriate, advocate, specifically in providing professional legal services in relation to Education Law to the Children’s Services Department but also in providing professional legal services on matters of Employment and Litigation Law to the Council’s Departments as may be required. Give legal advice and guidance to the Council’s officers and to Committees and Sub-Committees of the Council. Provide supervision and support to more junior staff. Act under pressure in the face of competing demands arising form emergency and urgent situations. Deliver training to colleagues, clients and elected members. Co-ordinate the work of the team, to ensure that matters are prepared to professional standards and in compliance with relevant legislation, Regulations, Statutory Guidance and Practice Directions and to ensure that Court commitments and other deadlines are properly met. Undertake such duties as may be allocated by the Team Leader or Deputy Team Leader, to include the preparation of reports, advice and guidance. Advise Committees, Sub-Committees, Members, Officers and any organisation with which the Council has a formal arrangement for the giving of advice. Provide professional legal services to the Council’s Departments, including the Children’s Services and Adults and Community Services Departments as may be required from time to time. Assist other public authorities within the area on legal matters as may be required from time to time. Qualifications: Qualified solicitor, barrister or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Minimum 3 years PQE in employment law plus public sector legal experience. Able to carry out the working practices, procedures and operations across the specialist areas of Education, Employment and Litigation. Able to analyse, interpret and present complex information from a variety of sources. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). 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. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. 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. S 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