We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Lincolnshire 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: £19.85 - £24.84 per Hour

Responsibilities:

• 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 risk based, 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

Qualifications:

• Must be a lawyer who holds a relevant qualification or has equivalent experience.
• Legal skills in one or more areas of expertise and a thorough and working
• knowledge of all relevant law and procedure in a specialist discipline.
• A good. broad, general working knowledge of the law applicable to local government commensurate with grade.

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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