Senior Lawyer - Social Care/Legal Services
Location
Bury, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom
Job description
Interim Senior Lawyer – Social Care/Legal Services
Reference no: Bury 0008 84CA / 1
Pay Rate: £30.00 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 1 month
City: BURY
Basic DBS disclosure required
Hybrid working
The purpose of the role is to provide specialist legal advice, and put into legal effect the instructions of the Council in such a way as to provide the Council with an excellent and continuously improving legal service to enable it to fulfil its overarching vision.
Key Responsibilities
- Be visible to staff and stakeholders and regularly undertake activities to engage and build trust with people involved in service, developing the legal knowledge and understanding of key stakeholders.
- Ensure the effective execution of legal work arising from the decisions of the Council and its Committees.
- Take ownership of building effective working relationships with other Team Leaders to ensure the Council’s Legal plans and priorities are aligned across the teams.
- Ensure positive personal and professional development of team members by tuition, personal example, strong leadership and effective performance management.
- Procure the delivery of relevant training to legal staff and clients in respect of specific subject related matters.
- Contribute to the production, monitoring and review of the Legal Services Service Plan.
- Build and maintain excellent client relations acting as a role model to achieve service and Council wide objectives.
- Support the Head of Service in ensuring sound democratic decision making, good and effective governance and openness/access to information.
- Provide and ensure the provision of sound legal advice, assistance and representation, to Elected Members, Departments of the Council and other partners and stakeholders which will impact on the decisions and initiatives undertaken by them, together with the provision of advocacy when required.
- Act as a point of reference and give professional advice and training to other staff within Legal Services and their specialist area.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via [email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
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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.
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