Salary: Grade I. Scale 35 - £44,711 to Scale 39 - £48,710 with a professional bar at SCP 37 £46,731
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne
Assessment Date: To be confirmed
The Role
This is a wide ranging role and there will be the potential to specialise within it for the right candidate, so please don’t be put off by its varied nature!
To provide legal advice and assistance and court representation for officers engaged in civil and criminal court and enforcement proceedings, including adult services.
To attend at licensing, planning, and other committees where legal advice and support is required to keep the Council safe from making unlawful decisions.
To advise the Council’s planning and highways functions.
About You
You could be about to qualify as a solicitor, or have experience and looking for a change. Either way you will have the enthusiasm and energy to take up this exciting role, together with a passionate commitment to successfully represent the public sector. A team player, you will want to learn yourself and develop others, and have the empathy and understanding required of a local government officer.
We have 2 positions we are looking to fill:
1. A lawyer with good experience of planning with ideally (but not essential) some understanding of property and highways related matters.
2. An adult care lawyer with ideally some experience of this area of law, whether in the private or public sector.
Training will be provided in both disciplines.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.
This is a politically restricted post.
** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:
1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here.
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