Senior Legal Officer

What's involved with this role: Interim Senior Legal Officer Bristol Key Requirements:

• Qualified barrister/solicitor/legal executive/licensed conveyancer (level 6) or extensive equivalent experience, as appropriate to the practitioner's area of specialism.
• Prosecution experience - trading standards & consumer protection law, Housing Act prosecutions, environmental health prosecution work.
• Criminal case preparation/litigation/procedure.
• Regulatory advice work - general local authority experience in this regard but emphasis on Private Housing work.
• Advocacy experience - Magistrates Court trials/appeals
• Licensing Act 2003 experience - advice/committee work/appeals.
• Ability to travel to Bristol once or twice a month to attend Court/Committees informing managers on People issues and develop HR for customers and services.

The purpose of the role is to undertake legal work on behalf of the council at a senior level.Key Responsibilities:

• Provide a comprehensive legal service relevant to the practitioner's area of specialism which may include undertaking inquiries, tribunals and attendance at court.
• Provide professional advice and guidance to services, including information on legal developments.
• Draft detailed and complex documentation including pleadings, contracts and agreements, and leases and deeds as appropriate.
• Provide challenge to services to ensure that work is undertaken in the best interests of the council and in accordance with its policies, procedures and codes of practice.
• Analyse and interpret a variety of complex information in order to solve problems and reach solutions.
• Undertake research and project work, preparing and presenting reports and information as required.
• Undertake training and continued professional development in accordance with professional requirements.
• Demonstrate a significant degree of initiative and responsibility in adopting a problem-solving approach to the work.

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.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside - there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.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 at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than 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, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please