What's involved with this role: Interim PT Contracts Lawyer - Legal Services Reference no: Rochdale 0009 9772 / 1 Pay Rate: Competitive Pay Rate 25 Specific days and hours TBC This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: ROCHDALE Hybrid working A Contracts Lawyer is required to deliver high standards of legal advice and support to teams across the Council, resolving procurement and contract legal matters as they arise. Ensure compliance with statutory regulations, legislation, professional codes of practice and adherence to Council policy. Must be experienced and able to manage a complex and busy caseload and advise at the highest levels as required. Key responsibilities: Perform in an effective, timely, courteous, professional and flexible manner the duties of a qualified lawyer. Provide efficient, effective and pragmatic legal advice and assistance to the Council and other clients. Personally represent the Council and other clients before the courts, tribunals and public inquiries as required. Work effectively with officers and members of the Council and with other clients. Attend, provide legal advice and assistance to and prepare reports for officer and member meetings (including evening meetings) of the Council and other clients. Advise upon, draft and negotiate the full range of legal documents. Key requirements: Qualified Solicitor or Barrister or Fellow – Chartered Institute of Legal Executives. Experienced and able to manage a complex and busy caseload and advise at the highest levels as required. Considerable post qualification experience and an up-to-date knowledge of the law and practice relating to contracts and other relevant legal work. Considerable experience of providing legal advice at local authority member and officer meetings or equivalent and of delivering training as required. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to organise and prioritise workload. Ability to work under pressure and to deliver good quality work to tight deadlines. Proven ability and experience of successfully negotiating and drafting the full range of relevant legal documents without supervision. 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. 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. "XR 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