Contract to start ASAP

Duration: 26 weeks with a possible extension.

Responsibilities:

To undertake a full caseload of complex and often sensitive legal matters within one or more specialisms of the team and dealing with complex and sensitive matters

To provide proactive and solution focussed advice that supports the delivery of the council's priorities and policies

To manage and develop lawyers and / or other team members within your team ensuring the delivery of high quality and cost-effective legal services

To be able to advise on legal matters relevant to public and local government law including on executive and committee decision-making, information governance and public law challenges

To advise members and formal member level bodies including Cabinet, Council, committees and overview and scrutiny in respect of the team's specialism and as required by the City Director and / or their Deputy Director

To support the City Director of Law & Governance in their role as monitoring officer and in promoting the Nolan Principles in the council and escalating matters as appropriate

To externally commission legal work for the Council where required, ensuring value for money and high-quality advice and representation is received

To ensure the service, teams and the wider Council is aware of the current and future law and practice affecting the authority

To participate in the delivery of projects and programmes in the Legal Service and / or corporately

To support the Head of Law with the development of legal procedures and policies

To support the Head of Law in the delivery of value for money and income generation in the work of the team

To have responsibility to authorise payments from an agreed expenditure budget

To deputise for the Head of Law in their absence or as requested

To manage lawyers and team members ensuring their performance management and development

The job holder will embed diversity and inclusion into the team and Council's working promoting non-discriminatory practices and challenging discriminatory practices at all times

To ensure compliance with statutory duties and corporate policies and standards and ensure within team, raising non-compliance including but not limited to health and safety, information governance, financial and procurement regulations

This job description is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive, it is issued as a framework to outline the main areas of responsibility at the time of writing.

To carry out other tasks as may reasonably be required

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