Lawyer
| Posting date: | 20 January 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £55,836 to £66,338 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £55,836 - £62,823 London: £59,450 - £66,338 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 February 2025 |
| Location: | TW11 0JZ |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 385634/3 |
Summary
Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you!
We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade (previously the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency.
Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow, most recently with the addition of construction products regulation.
Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.
Further information can be found on our website here .
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (Disability Confident Scheme) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
We are Inclusive
We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible and recognise how important inclusivity is to achieve the best outcomes. We hope to attract applications from all underrepresented groups.
The Role and Our Team:
The OPSS Legal Advice and Practice team is a highly regarded team from a mixture of public sector and private practice backgrounds. The team provides legal advice across all of OPSS’s functions. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated lawyer with strong interpersonal skills who is able to work well within a team.
You will work closely with teams across the OPSS to provide pragmatic, solution-focussed and high-quality legal advice. The scope of the role, reflecting the breadth of OPSS’s functions, is broad. We do not expect applicants to have existing expertise in all areas of OPSS’s work but you must be willing to advise on a wide range of matters including our enforcement across a range of civil and criminal legislation, statutory decision-making, development of policy, and data transformation programme. In doing so, you will liaise with both DBT and other government departments’ legal advisors (Government Legal Department) as well as other regulators and commercial entities as appropriate.
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