Senior Lawyer

What's involved with this role: Interim Senior LawyerReference no: Manchester CC / 1Standard DBS disclosure required for this role Hybrid working availableThe purpose of the role is to provide effective advice and representation on complex legal work and projects of importance to Manchester 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.

Qualifications:

1. A practising barrister, solicitor or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (if FCILEX, with Advocacy Certificate).

Skills & Experience:

1. Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
2. Extensive recent experience of dealing with complex, high value and sensitive children and families matters.
3. Extensive knowledge of the law relating to children and families.
4. Extensive knowledge of the law relating to children and families.
5. Experience of local authority childcare work desirable.
6. Ability to react to immediate problems of a highly complex nature with associated risk factors and deliver pragmatic solutions sometimes under extreme pressure.
7. Excellent planning skills and ability to link strategy to policy which meets both internal and external requirements.
8. Skills Application of strong analytical reasoning skills and intellectual focus, taking in the wider external and internal environments. Proactively think through problems rather than reactively following a procedure-driven approach.
9. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

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