About the role
To assist the Council’s Legal Services in providing a comprehensive and effective Legal Service to Chief Officers, Members and client service areas of the Council in relation to its functions and to undertake work focused on non- contentious matters as detailed below.
About the candidate
A qualified Solicitor or Legal Executive with a current practicing certificate or equivalent.
Practical experience in non-contentious matters, including (but not limited to):
1. Commercial Property transactions
2. Projects and development
3. Landlord and tenant matters
4. Highways
5. Regional Projects
Due to the requirements of the role the successful candidate must have a level of Welsh fluency on appointment. Please see the person specification for the further details.
Our offer to you
We are committed to developing our people and will not only provide support to enable you to quickly and confidently take ownership of this role’s key areas of responsibility but in addition, we are committed to supporting your development in order that you can progress your career with us.
In exchange for your skills and commitment we will offer you a range of employee benefits including flexible working, competitive annual leave allowance, enhanced family benefits, lifestyle savings and employee health and wellbeing packages.
We believe work-life balance is very important. To support you in achieving this, you will have access to the following discretionary benefits:
6. Hybrid Working: Subject to certain conditions being met, you may choose to work from home or in an office location.
7. Flexi-time: Hours may be worked within a defined bandwidth, Monday to Friday, subject to service needs.
More information about our wide-ranging employee benefits can be found on our
Interviews
Interviews will be held on 22.07.. To reduce disruption to candidates, interviews will be held remotely.
Additional Information
Get in touch
For further information and an informal discussion regarding this post please contact Patricia Armstrong on or email
Note: We reserve the right to extend the application closing date.
What we offer
Work-life balance
Lifestyle savings scheme
Generous employer pension scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Learning and development
Where you'll work
Legal and Governance
We ensure that the Council operates in a responsible and transparent manner by providing corporate and operational legal advice, auditing, objective assurance and support across all service areas resulting in the legal welfare and obligations of the Council being upheld, and assurance provided on governance, risk and internal controls. Our key functions include:
8. Legal Services
9. Internal Audit: Consulting Service; Independent Assurance
10. Statutory Role: Monitoring Officer
11. Coroner Services
12. Corporate Governance: Audit Committee; External Regulators; Constitution; Governance; Conduct.
Penmorfa Penmorfa is our most central office, it is where our Chief Executive and Councillors are based.