Walsall Council are on the lookout for a Solicitor to join their team. This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English. Your designated place of work will be the Council House. The council operates customer-focused hybrid ways of working, which is subject to change, and you may be required to work from other locations, short or long term.
Main purpose of the job role:
1. Managing a wide-ranging caseload of both straightforward and complex legal work of any nature or in any area of law with a bias towards but not limited to planning, environmental, and highways law and governance.
2. Providing high quality well-researched legal advice and assistance to client departments within agreed timescales in the area of work allocated.
3. Supporting the Principal Solicitor and other colleagues in ensuring that a professional, comprehensive legal service is provided to the Council, its Members, and officers.
4. Advising at Planning Committee.
Role specific duties and accountabilities:
1. Managing a broad caseload of planning, environmental, transportation, housing, and other work for instructing client departments.
2. Providing clear written and verbal legal advice.
3. Meeting with client officers and Members to provide advice.
4. Taking responsibility for preparation and research and applying rigorous analytical problem-solving methods.
5. Resolving a wide range of legal problems.
6. Proactively supporting clients in areas of their work which have a legal dimension.
7. Managing own time effectively and prioritising a caseload with varied complexity.
8. Demonstrating a good knowledge of the framework of local government.
9. Negotiating with others and holding their own, both internally with senior officers and Members, in hearings, inquiries, and committees.
10. Keeping relevant stakeholders informed, having due regard to priorities and deadlines, the department’s quality standards, data protection, and all other relevant legislation.
11. Working with limited support and supervision.
12. Undertaking such other duties as may be allocated by the Principal Solicitor (or other member of the Legal Services Management Team) within the post holder’s competence.
13. Participating in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and taking responsibility for own self-development on a continuous basis and undertaking suitable training to develop and provide detailed up-to-date knowledge of the law in relevant areas, those most commonly encountered and those specific to the client departments supported.
14. Building positive working relationships within Legal.
Please reach out to me on 02075376607 for further details!
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