- Pay Rate:
£55.00 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
- MANCHESTER,
M60 2LA
Interim Senior Lawyer - Children & Families
Reference no: MCC 0007 F043 / 1
Pay Rate: £55.00 per hour PAYE
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: MANCHESTER
Hybrid working
Standard DBS disclosure required
The role holder will provide effective advice and representation on complex legal work and projects of importance to Manchester and Salford and, where appropriate, to external bodies. The role holder will actively contribute to the professional development of the service and will have a proactive and positive manner
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain excellent client relations acting as a role model to achieve service and council wide objectives.
- Providing timely, high quality and accurate legal, tactical and strategic advice.
- Use advanced analytical skills to interpret complex information to identify legal issues, risk and other implications for clients.
- To communicate both verbally and in writing to a consistently high standard with the ability to translate and present complex legal advice in a way that can be clearly understood by a variety of audiences.
- Where appropriate, to demonstrate exceptional advocacy skills achieving the best possible outcomes for the client.
- Demonstrate exceptional negotiating and influencing skills to achieve the best possible outcomes for clients.
- To be solution focussed always looking positively for ways in which the clients desired outcomes can be achieved.
- Research law and procedure to a high professional standard and keep ahead of legal developments.
- Demonstrate highly competent legal drafting skills.
- Deputise effectively when required in dealings with clients, legal management and legal matters
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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 not 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:
- A practicing barrister, solicitor or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (if FCILEX, with Advocacy Certificate)
Knowledge:
- Extensive knowledge of the law relating to children and families
- Understanding the dynamics of conflict and how to achieve mutual agreement
Experience:
- Extensive recent experience of dealing with complex, high value and sensitive children and families matters
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent planning skills and ability to link strategy to policy which meets both internal and external requirements
- Ability to take action to exploit ICT opportunities that will have a measurable effect on operational effectiveness, with associated benefits to the business
- Ability to react to immediate problems of a highly complex nature with associated risk factors and deliver pragmatic solutions sometimes under extreme pressure
- Ability to manage a complex range of functions and manage multiple priorities with confidence
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