We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Lincoln to assist with the appointment of a Lawyer, on a 3-month contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £20.85 - 25.84 per hour 

Summary:

• To provide high quality efficient and effective legal and administrative advice and services to the County Council and external customers and assist and support the County Council's Monitoring Officer in discharging his/her duties and responsibilities.
• To provide legal advice to members and senior officers of the Council, partners and other clients and carry a workload of appropriately complex and high profile, high risk matters and advise as required on public law and governance in support of clients' decision-making processes.
• To role model and promote the values and culture of the service including the highest degrees of flexibility openness and collaboration and the provision of riskbased, solution focused advice centred on enabling clients to achieve their outcomes.
• To provide day to day leadership, advice and guidance to colleagues relating to work within own area of responsibility Continuously look for synergies and efficiency savings across area of responsibility.

Responsibilities:

• Understand and work with Legal Services Lincolnshire's target market and existing customers as appropriate, developing and maintaining
  relationships with County Council commissioners, partners, external
  customers, service users, stakeholders and potential providers.
• Contribute to Legal Services Lincolnshire's work with commissioners/partners to ensure a robust approach to data analysis and forecasting
• Contribute to the performance by the County Council, partners and external customers of their statutory obligations and where appropriate any national and local performance indicators
• Ensure the way in which the postholder conducts themselves within the
  area of responsibility reflects the agreed culture and style and standing
  orders of the County Council and the culture and style of Legal Services
  Lincolnshire as set out in Working in Legal Services Lincolnshire as
  amended from time to time.
• Operate Legal Services Lincolnshire's LEXCEL policies, processes and
  procedures and any frameworks for Quality Assurance, agreed appropriate performance standards and review processes operated by County Council commissioners, partners or external customers and monitor delivery against commissioned requirements

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. 

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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