Senior Lawyer – Safeguarding

Interim Senior Lawyer – Safeguarding
Reference no: Greenwich RQ1275835
Pay rate: £26.78 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 1 month
City: WOOLWICH, London
A Senior Lawyer is required to undertake an extensive caseload of complex legal work in the legal practice areas covered by the Safeguarding Team.
Key responsibilities:
Manage up to 6 directly managed staff and up to 15 indirectly managed consultancy/contracting staff.
Undertake an extensive caseload of complex legal work as a senior member of the Team providing high level advice services to Elected Members (including Committees), senior managers, staff and external clients in accordance with legal/professional standards and in a way that reflects the Legal Services values.
Appear on behalf of the Council and other external clients at the Magistrates’ Court, County Court, Tribunals and Inquiries as required and to instruct Counsel to appear in Higher Court matters.
Provide legal advice to Elected Members (including Committees), senior managers, staff and external clients on a range of complex matters in the areas covered by the Team which have substantial implications for the Council and require a consistently high degree of support, persuasion and awareness of the Council’s major policy objectives.
Represent and act on behalf of the Council where directed by the Assistant Head of Legal Services.
Advise Elected Members and senior managers on the legal implications of transformation and development projects in the service areas covered by the team which have extensive policy or service implications in order to improve customer outcomes or meet medium term financial strategy targets.
Lead and manage staff in the Team and be responsible for the allocation of work as directed by the Assistant Head of Legal Services.
Provide legal supervision to less senior fee earners in the Team as appropriate and work closely with Legal Support Officers to supervise the administrative support they provide on legal transactions.
Keep abreast of legal developments in the legal practice area of the team and help to ensure that the Team operates in accordance with modern good practice, legal/regulatory requirements and authority policies/procedures.
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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.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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