Are you a great team player but with the ability to work on your own initiative too?
The Opportunity
Salary: £46,731 to £49,764per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working
Interview date: w/c 2nd June 2025
As our Lawyer, you will join a dynamic team and have access to an established career progression scheme offering scope for future development.
Your primary focus will be to provide clear and balanced advice on commercial contracts, construction contracts and procurement matters within the Commercial Team in Legal Services. You will run a mixed case load, drafting and providing advice on public health contracts, construction and building contracts, IT contracts, frameworks, DPS’ (Dynamic Purchasing System), Concession Contracts, Collaboration Agreements, Funding Agreements, and advising on call-off agreements from established Frameworks such as ESPO and CCS.
You will work within the Commercial Team in Legal Services to provide a quality legal service to client groups across the County Council. Key areas include commercial contracts and procurement and other work areas as required by the Senior Solicitor Commercial Team Leader.
Legal Services aims to give the best possible legal and insurance service to the Council. As an organisation we have a simple goal – to deliver the best possible services to the people of West Sussex. We do this through the people who work for us so it’s paramount to us to ensure that our employees are supported and valued.
What are we looking for?
1. You will be a qualified, lawyer, solicitor, or legal executive, or have equivalent experience with some practical knowledge and experience of commercial contracts, construction contracts and procurement, but absolutely with an ability to analyse legal issues and having a good eye for detail.
2. You will be confident dealing with in-house and external clients using a professional but friendly fashion.
3. You will be a good team worker when required, but with the ability to work on your own initiative too.
4. You will be part of a team providing commercial property, residential property, and land law advice to a wide range of client departments across the Council and external clients and you will have good IT skills to be able to use the case management system.
5. You will be able to work flexibly to meet the demands of the team and be able to travel independently around the county to various offices and establishments.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this, we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
6. an excellent
7. generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
8. a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
9. maternity, paternity, dependency, and adoption leave
10. volunteering opportunities
11. training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
12. a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
13. health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans