What's involved with this role: Interim Legal Officer Reference no: K&C 5261820 Pay Rate: £20.86 per hour PAYE 36 Monday - Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 3 months City: KENSINGTON, LONDON You will be required to carry up to 13 care cases with no advocacy. Key Responsibilities: Provide guidance and assistance on various administrative and computerised systems to these staff and other colleagues. Ensure all documentation is accurate. Support and assist senior colleagues in complex and highly confidential cases by providing organised methodical and current research. Support and work alongside them/deputise at necessary stages or independently, draft documents, attend on Counsel, attend meetings with the public and other professionals whether internal or external. Independently evaluate, draft and prepare all documents. Draft instructions to Counsel when external Barristers are brought in to represent the Council and instruct solicitors to act as agents on behalf of the Council and negotiate their fees. Use various Council systems to research cases. Key requirements: Law degree CILEX or equivalent or other legal qualification Fellowship of the Institute of Legal Executives Uses knowledge to analyse and solve problems with an appreciation of possible longer-term implications. Experience of dealing with complex caseloads. Legal Officer experience Strong verbal communication skills including the ability to receive and present complex, sensitive or contentious data to individuals and groups, overcoming barriers to communication. Ability to establish professional, effective working relationships with a range of partners/colleagues. 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. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us 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. "XI 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.