The Opportunity
Salary : £38,626 to £41,511 per annum
Working pattern : Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: Based at County Hall, Chichester, hybrid working from home.
We’re on the look out for a skilled and dedicated lawyer to join our friendly legal team within the Litigation & Insurance team.
As a Litigation lawyer, you will have conduct of a varied caseload providing advice to client groups across the council on all aspects of dispute resolution in the areas of third party and employers’ liability claims, debt recovery to include adult social care debt recovery, contractual disputes and landlord and tenant.
What we are looking for:
1. A qualified lawyer with up to two years post-qualification (or equivalent experience).
2. Ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
3. Strong interpersonal skills and to work effectively as part of a team.
4. Experience drafting, interpreting and analysing documents, conducting legal research and undertaking advocacy.
5. Computer literate.
6. Experience of dispute resolution procedures, the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, and the Practice Directions.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
7. an excellent
8. generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
9. a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
10. maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
11. volunteering opportunities
12. training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
13. a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
14. Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans