Reference
HUL/25/0506
Full Time Equivalent Salary (based on a 37 hour working week)
£ £53460
Occupational group
Legal Services
Job term
Full Time
Appointment type
Permanent
Hours
37
Division
Legal Services & Partnerships - Directorate
Closing Date
17 October 2025
Proposed Shortlisting Date
22 October 2025
Proposed Interview Date
03 November 2025
Place of work
Guildhall, Hull HU1 2AA
For an informal discussion please contact
Paul Thompson (Community Team Leader)
Contact telephone
Legal Services is recruiting Lawyers for its Community Team. This Team takes instructions from service areas across the Council and some external clients, and carries out a wide range of civil and criminal litigation as well as providing advice to Council committees, including Planning and Licensing. Major areas of practice include social and private housing, anti-social behaviour and community safety, adult social care, planning, licensing, employment, health and safety, public protection and environmental regulation.
The successful candidate will have significant professional legal experience in some of the areas of the work undertaken by the Team. Additionally, a demonstrable understanding of the role of Legal Services within local government and the Council would be an advantage. Lawyers are expected to be proactive, confident, organised and able to work on their own initiative. The ability to manage a busy workload to tight deadlines is therefore essential.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Paul Thompson on
Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.
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Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight on the closing date.
We are committed to increasing the diversity, equity, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
We adopt a 'name blind' approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.
We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Hull City Council embraces the principles of WorkSmart and this post has been identified as a suitable role. WorkSmart principles create opportunities facilitating a combination of working in the office, ad hoc homeworking, or working from various locations, therefore being flexible about where/ how you carry out your role, the specific opportunities available will be discussed at interview.