This is a wide-ranging role and there will be the potential to specialise within it for the right candidate, so please don't be put off by its varied nature! To provide legal advice and assistance and court representation for officers engaged in civil and criminal court and enforcement proceedings, including adult services. To attend at licensing, planning, and other committees where legal advice and support is required to keep the Council safe from making unlawful decisions. To advise the Council's planning and highways functions.
You could be about to qualify as a solicitor, or have experience and looking for a change. Either way you will have the enthusiasm and energy to take up this exciting role, together with a passionate commitment to successfully represent the public sector. A team player, you will want to learn yourself and develop others, and have the empathy and understanding required of a local government officer. This is a politically restricted post.
Minimum Requirements:
1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above,
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role,
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable,
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities. We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.
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