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Adult Social Care Lawyer, Leicestershire
Client:
Leicestershire County Council
Location:
County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
3b31f00e131c
Job Views:
7
Posted:
09.02.2025
Expiry Date:
26.03.2025
Job Description:
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £38,700 - £52,155 per annum (pro rata for part-time) plus a Golden Hello lump sum payment equal to 10% of salary on appointment
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
Are you a qualified and experienced solicitor with a keen interest in promoting the equality and independence of vulnerable adults, alongside safeguarding and protection from abuse? If so, come and join our dedicated team of in-house Adult Social Care solicitors in this challenging and rewarding area of practice.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced lawyer whether Solicitor, Barrister, or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives working in private practice or local authority. You will have sound litigation skills, preferably within the welfare jurisdiction of the Court of Protection, together with the ability to undertake advocacy from time to time. Excellent legal research skills are also required for advice work on mental health and mental capacity, safeguarding, ordinary residence, community care funding and responsibilities including no recourse to public funds, finance issues, as well as providing guidance on policy and practice in response to changes in the law.
You are not expected to be an expert in all these areas; however, broad experience and a keen willingness to find out is a definite advantage, as is a dynamic and solution-focused approach.
Joining a friendly and supportive team, where different skills, knowledge and experiences are valued, you can expect a collaborative working environment that includes:
* The opportunity to undertake some of the most complex and important case work supporting vulnerable adults in the Court of Protection.
* The opportunity to exercise your legal analysis skills with the production of high quality written and verbal advice.
* An opportunity to enhance/develop advocacy skills appropriate to the role and your experience.
* Provision of dedicated paralegal support.
* Guidance from highly regarded and experienced managers (job share).
Additional benefits of working for Leicestershire County Council include:
* Attractive benefits package: including leave entitlement of up to 32 days depending on grade and length of service plus public holidays and leave buy back scheme, generous local government pension scheme, free on-site parking, restaurant and food outlet, employee benefits and discount scheme. Payment of required professional fees.
* Employee friendly policies: including carer support and comprehensive wellbeing support services. The council is a ‘Mindful Employer’ and committed to the well-being of its staff and workplace equality initiatives.
* Career development support: the council recognises the value of mentoring, training and development. All managers in legal services are experienced and highly regarded legal practitioners both within the council and externally.
* Work life balance: Hybrid working policies to promote work-life balance and effective remote home working.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
* Be qualified as an admitted Solicitor, Barrister or Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.
* Have recent and substantial experience of dealing with local authority work to include at least two of the following specialist areas: mental health law, deprivation of liberty safeguards/Mental Capacity Act, court of protection work including welfare proceedings, judicial review, and adult protection/other adult social care issues.
* Have experience in the conduct of complex public law litigation to include drafting chronologies, statements, position statements and briefs.
* Have knowledge of public sector and/or administrative law/judicial review, and the functions of an Adult Social Care Services Department including mental health, mental capacity, court of protection, adult protection, and community care law both in relation to individual cases and wider policy issues.
* Be able to assimilate information rapidly and present effective solutions and appropriate advice and guidance in a timely manner.
* Be able to communicate effectively with colleagues, customers, and internal and external stakeholders to persuade and influence appropriate outcomes.
* Have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, IT skills, and written communication skills to enable the drafting of legal documents.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition, we expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Catherine Gorry, Team Leader
Telephone: 0116 305 6160
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities.
To apply for this job, please click ‘Apply Now’. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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