What's involved with this role: Interim PDP Lawyer - Legal Services Reference no: Surrey 102763 Pay Rate: £40.00 per hour PAYE 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 4-5 months City: REIGATE The post holder must, if required by the role, be available to work and attend proceedings and meetings at prearranged times (including out of core hours) and in locations away from their contractual base. This role will be required to support the management of a group of lawyers in identified work areas according to business need. This may be through support to and/or deputising for the Principal lawyer. The role holder is expected to provide timely, clear and effective legal advice, representation and assistance to the County Council in order to enable the County Council to discharge their functions lawfully and effectively. Key Responsibilities: Provide support, direction and expert legal advice to the County Council, its members, officers and committees. Lead by example in modelling and embedding the council’s values and behaviours across the service. Manage a full, varied, demanding and more complex caseload and deliver innovative solutions with minimal supervision. As part of the role you will undertake advocacy where required. Support the Monitoring Officers in respect of their duty to advise the County Council of any illegality or procedural default to enable the matter to be investigated. Contributing to the training of staff within the Council and to the wider partner authorities to ensure that they are kept up to date with the law and emerging issues. Qualifications: Solicitor, barrister or Fellow of CILEX who is eligible to practise in England and Wales and has (or be in a position to apply for) a current practising certificate issued by the relevant regulatory authority. Knowledge: Extensive and comprehensive knowledge of computerised business systems, able to promote the use of IT systems within the service (some roles). Extensive knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures relating to business planning and financial and organisational management. Experience: Significant work experience at management level in one or more relevant specialist areas. Experience of or an aptitude for advocacy. Skills & Abilities: Proven problem solving skills with the capacity to devise and implement innovative solutions. Proven written and oral communication and interpersonal skills with established negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external partners/professionals. Ability to understand, meet and exceed customer expectations Proven ability to manage a wide range of complex projects or programmes. 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 directly 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