Property Solicitor - Legal Services
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset | United Kingdom
Job description
What's involved with this role:
Interim Property Solicitor – Legal Services
Job Ref: Bournemouth 5246065
Pay Rate: £48.72 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6-7 months
City: Bournemouth, Dorset
Hybrid working
The purpose of the role is to support and assist the Head of Legal Services and the Legal Services team to deliver an efficient, effective and responsive service to clients advising primarily on planning and highway matters, in line with strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide specialist input to the Service Director and the Head of Legal Services in the delivery and improvement of its services and business strategies.
Advice on all aspects of planning, contentious and non-contentious planning matters, including complex section 106 obligations and issues relating to Community Infrastructure Levy, lawful development certificates, planning enforcement, planning appeals, Judicial Reviews.
Advice on highway agreements and licences, traffic management orders, stopping up orders and rights of way matters in a planning context regulatory and related local government law matters (contentious and non-contentious).
Represent the council as and when required in all planning & highway legal proceedings.
Deliver clear, consistent and accurate legal advice to officers, members and clients on all matters relating to planning and highway.
Procure external legal assistance when requested to do so.
Take necessary action under the relevant legislation and case law and ensure appropriate professional standards are maintained in line with accepted good practice.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via
[email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than 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 this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining 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.
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.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
Qualified solicitor or barrister or Chartered Legal Executive.
Skills & Experience
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Extensive post qualification experience in the relevant areas of the law.
Up to date knowledge of relevant areas of the law and proceedings.
Demonstrable experience of persuasion and negotiation at a senior level.
Ability to provide creative and innovative solutions to complex procedural and legal issues.
Ability to work on own initiative and represent Legal Services at all levels within the authorities and externally.
Ability to give complex and specialist advice in highly sensitive and pressurised situations.
Ability to deliver pragmatic and cost-effective advice and solutions to clients.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: Bournemouth 5246065
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.
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