Senior Lawyer - Legal Services
| Posting date: | 18 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £55.00 to £55.00 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 October 2024 |
| Location: | REIGATE, RH2 8EF |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Surrey 99805 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim Senior Lawyer - Legal Services
Reference no: Surrey 99805
Pay rate: £55.00 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 5-6 months
City: REIGATE
This role will be required to assist in the management of a group of lawyers in identified work areas according to business need, providing leadership, supervision, direction and expert legal advice to the County Council, its members, officers and committees. The role will contribute to the wider management of Legal Services and lead by example in modelling and embedding the council’s values and behaviours across the service. In this role you will manage a full, varied and demanding caseload and deliver innovative solutions with minimal supervision. Within the team the role holder will support and deliver both personally and through assisting in the management of the team and its resources, the council’s ambition to reduce reliance on external legal support. As part of the role, you will be required to undertake and/or manage advocacy where required.
Key Responsibilities:
Identify issues, trends and opportunities that may have an impact in their area of responsibility to enable appropriate action to be taken.
Lead the development of policy in the own area of specialism, contributing to the delivery of organisational objectives. Customer Service & Support
Evaluate existing service provision taking account of feedback and broader external developments, to ensure innovative solutions are proposed to maximise service quality, efficiency and continuity.
Apply specialist expertise and use judgement to make decisions where solutions are not obvious, to deliver services that meet customer requirements and service standards.
Drive change and embed new ways of working to ensure high quality service delivery and value for money.
Develop and ensure implementation of operational plans and play a key role in the formulation of strategic longer term plans for the area to fit broader functional and council strategy.
Lead major projects and reviews and represent the business area in internal and/or external initiatives to enhance reputation and service delivery.
Manage allocated budget/resources/funding effectively and flexibly and control all related expenditure to ensure delivery of targets/objectives within budget.
Contribute to resource and budget planning within own area.
Liaise internally and externally at senior levels to establish service requirements and priorities and ensure the department/service issues are appropriately represented and acted upon.
Qualifications:
Solicitor, barrister or Fellow of CILEX who is eligible to practise in England and Wales and has (or be in a position to apply for) a current practising certificate issued by the relevant regulatory authority.
Degree or equivalent professional qualification plus substantial experience at a senior management level in a specialist area.
Knowledge:
Knowledge of the principles of change management, project management and continuous improvement, and their practical application.
Authoritative knowledge of the work practices, process and procedures relevant to the role including broader sector/commercial awareness.
Comprehensive knowledge of computerised business systems.
Understands how to inspire and motivate others.
Experience:
Wide experience in successful leading, coaching, mentoring and developing of staff
Experience of or an aptitude for advocacy.
Skills & Abilities:
Strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills with high level negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external partners/professionals.
Ability to manage budgets and resources to deliver effective support to their area of responsibility
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.
Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title.
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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 at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than 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.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, 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. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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Job Ref: Surrey 99805
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