What's involved with this role: Interim Solicitor - Legal Services Reference no: Oxfordshire 5247119 Pay Rate: up to £26.18 per hour PAYE depending on experience 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for up to 2 months City: OXFORD Undertake a range of legal work in connection with the work of the team and to provide general legal advice to all client departments of the County Council. Assist Legal Services in maintaining the provision of an effective and efficient Legal Service to the County Council. Assist County Legal Services in maintaining the provision of an effective and efficient legal service to the County Council in compliance with the LEXCEL Office Procedures Manual formulated in accordance with the Law Society’s Practice Management Standards. Key Responsibilities Hold a more varied and complex case load with minimal supervision Undertake more complex proceedings with minimal supervision Undertake more complex advocacy work, if necessary. Support junior legal colleagues in their work and role modelling the quality of legal work required. Work autonomously and reliably on more complex or difficult projects and policies in the specialist areas NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF 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 this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do no t 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. 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. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Qualifications: Qualified solicitor/Barrister with a current practising certificate Knowledge: Excellent knowledge and understanding of relevant areas of law and practice; ability to research quickly in unknown areas of law, learn new areas of law and make a professional judgement and provide accurate and definitive advice. Excellent knowledge of specialist legal area as set out in the JD Experience: Experience of Criminal Litigation/Civil Litigation/Advocacy/Planning/Environment and Highways/Adult Social Care/Children Social Care/Education as required by role. Experience working within a legal practice/in house legal department Experience of legal practice Skills & Abilities: Demonstrate strong and effective communication and strong interpersonal skills. Demonstrate strong effective organisational skills and to manage and prioritise own workload producing and administering correspondence and documentation to a very high standard. Demonstrate concise and assertive communication skills and negotiation skills, both oral and written excellent drafting skills, including ability to communicate with people at all levels including management, officers, councillors, members of the public and court officers. Ability to follow and work to standard office procedures, Microsoft applications and data bases and familiarisation with Case Management Systems and/or data entry, including demonstrating accurate keyboard skills. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please