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Benefits:
Salary from £50,788 to £54,928 per annum (national pay award negotiations ongoing)
Full-time 37 hours a week
Pension scheme 19% total contribution (you pay approximately 6.5%) and by joining the scheme this includes Death in service cover of 3 x your salary
Annual leave 26 days plus bank holidays increasing to 31 days after 5 years service plus bank holidays AND you can buy additional leave should you need to!
Employee Assistance scheme, store discounts, flexi hours scheme, cycle to work scheme and much more!
Job Description:
This exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Legal Services team at Sheffield City Council. The service is recruiting to help the Authority meet the exciting future for this green and vibrant city. The team operates in a fast-paced environment, dealing with the full range of commercial matters.
The Successful Candidate For The Role Will:
Be responsible for providing authoritative advice to the Councils Officers and Members, ensuring that decisions are lawful.
Manage their own caseload, which will include complex and interesting areas of law.
For The Role, You Would Need To Have:
Recognised Legal qualification (Solicitor, Barrister or FCILEX)
Understanding of legal case management systems and process knowledge
Technical knowledge in the specialist area of Commercial Law
The successful candidate will also manage the small but busy team of legal professionals. Experience of leading and continuing to develop flourishing teams would be ideal. The Senior Lawyer role is ideal for those wishing to deepen their expertise through dealing with more complex cases, and to develop their managerial and governance skills, and provide an ideal platform for those looking for a long term career at a senior level in Local Government. Whilst our Senior Lawyers are still case holders, their caseload is reduced to reflect their supervisory roles.
For an informal discussion, please contact Patrick Chisholm on 0114 273 4063.
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.
Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026.
Job details:
Job reference: REQ003133
Date posted: 03/03/2025
Application closing date: 21/03/2025
Location: Sheffield
Salary Grade: 10, £50,788 to £54,928
Package: Permanent
Contractual hours: 37
Job category/type: Legal
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Part-time
Job function: Legal
Industries: Law Practice
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