What's involved with this role:
Interim Child Care Lawyer - Legal Services
Reference no: Gloucestershire 5257197
Pay Rate: £43.12 per hour PAYE
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: GLOUCESTER
Hybrid working, court attendance will be required once a month.
The purpose of the role is to represent Legal Services, the Council and external clients in meetings, including committee and member meetings, inquiries and working groups and in discussions with other legal practitioners at an appropriate level as and when required.
Key Responsibilities:
Acquire and maintain knowledge
Undertake advocacy and represent the Council in the Court arena.
Represent Legal Services, the Council and external clients in meetings, including committee and member meetings, inquiries and working groups and in discussions with other legal practitioners at an appropriate level as and when required
Contribute to the development and delivery of legal services.
Exhibit the employee behaviours as indicated in the Council’s People Strategy.
Deal with sensitive issues with tact and confidentiality.
Provide innovative, creative advice to clients in a pressurised environment
Qualifications:
Qualified barrister, Solicitor or a Chartered Legal Executive.
Membership of the relevant professional body.
Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience of undertaking advocacy in court together with contested hearings requiring the cross examination of witnesses in court.
Experienced child care lawyer.
Experience of working in local government.
Skills & Abilities:
Good interpersonal and communication skills to be able to advise members, staff, other organisations and members of the public courteously and efficiently in person and by telephone.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro).
Good research and problem-solving skills with ability to convey complex legal and factual issues to various audiences.
Ability to work collaboratively with professionals and client departments in order to build excellent working relationships and one which is supportive to the client department.
Ability to share knowledge and expertise to develop colleagues and clients and to be part of a team.
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 jobs@tclrec.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.
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Job Ref: Gloucestershire 5257197
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.
We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.