Lawyer - Senior MM2
Lawyer - Senior MM2
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19-10-2024
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Job Description
23 months contract with a Local Authority
Job Summary:
As a middle manager within the Council you will:
- Lead manage and motivate the team to deliver high performance
- Ensure that corporate/departmental people practices are understood and implemented within your service
- Effectively manage budgets and projects within your service ensuring effective cost management and prioritisation
- Monitor and evaluate your team s performance and recommend areas for improvement based on evidence
- Coach and support staff to develop
- Recommend areas for service improvement based on relevant data and information
- Communicate effectively with elected members and other partners/stakeholders
- Collaborate constructively with partner organisations and other stakeholders including internal services and colleagues
- Build a culture of trust in your team
- To provide a comprehensive legal service to colleagues throughout the Council to maintained Schools and to the Council s Local Authority Trading Companies.
- To be responsible for their own work as allocated by management always ensuring value for money for the Council communication with the client and working to high inhouse standards.
Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample):
- Identify and escalate any budget risks.
- Set and monitor individual and team performance standards.
- Ensure that clear team and individual goals are in place and communicated.
- Implement service improvement plans to time and budget.
- To adopt best practice in the management of individual matters through the appropriate use of the Legal Services case management system and good legal practice management standards including the use of appropriate software packages.
- To assist the senior members of Legal Services in ensuring that the Council complies with all legislative requirements and providing a solutionfocussed legal service which is proactive as well as reactive.
- To have conduct all aspects of Adult Social care as allocated and working with limited supervision in the following areas: Adult safeguarding Court of Protection Mental Capacity DOL.s Community Care.
- Experience in advocacy an advantage but not essential.
- As one of the members of the Legal Services Team to provide cover for the MM2 Lawyers and other team members during his/her/their absence as appropriate.
- Occasional attendance at evening meetings may be required.
- Any other duties reasonably requested by management.
- Carry out all accountabilities in compliance with the Council s Policies and Procedures.
Skills/Experience:
- Willing to develop and learn further skills/areas of work
- At least 3 years postqualification experience of adult social care to cover the following areas: Adult safeguarding Judicial Review Mental Capacity Court of Protection Community Care DOLs Education Advocacy.
- Excellent oral and written communication and comprehension skills including the capacity to negotiate to draft complex legal documentation and advice often under time pressure while meeting deadlines and to demonstrate an innovative problemsolving approach to legal problems.
- Demonstrable experience of collaborative working with a range of stakeholders.
- An awareness of the laws practices and procedures of administration and local government
- Appropriate behaviours are key to the delivery of our vision for Enfield.
- We want staff who will work collaboratively flexibly and constructively and exhibit this ethos in all their dealings with residents colleagues and partners. Our leaders will be exemplars of the following behaviours and encourage them in staff at all levels;
- We want staff who are willing to make decisions and be accountable for them. Staff should have a positive cando attitude where they see problems as challenges which can be overcome. They should accept responsibility for service delivery be clear about their service offer and deliver what they promise.
- We want staff who are comfortable and confident to acknowledge the difficulties and the barriers they face. They should also be able to constructively challenge the way things are done where there is evidence that it impedes service delivery. Challenge should be conducted in a professional courteous manner with the aim of reaching a mutually agreeable resolution.
- We want staff who are prepared to actively listen and reflect on customer concerns with a view to understanding the customer s point of view. Staff We want staff who can work collaboratively with other departments and partners freely sharing their knowledge and skills to identify solutions to address customer concerns.
Additional Information:
- The closing day: 24/10/24 @17:00.
- Qualified Solicitor of England and Wales Barrister CILEX or equivalent.
Willing to develop and learn further skills/areas of work At least 3 years post-qualification experience of adult social care to cover the following areas: Adult safeguarding, Judicial Review, Mental Capacity, Court of Protection, Community Care, DOLs, Education, Advocacy. Excellent oral and written communication and comprehension skills, including the capacity to negotiate, to draft complex legal documentation and advice often under time pressure while meeting deadlines, and to demonstrate an innovative, problem-solving approach to legal problems. Demonstrable experience of collaborative working with a range of stakeholders. An awareness of the laws, practices and procedures of administration and local government Appropriate behaviours are key to the delivery of our vision for Enfield. We want staff who will work collaboratively, flexibly and constructively, and exhibit this ethos in all their dealings with residents, colleagues and partners. Our leaders will be exemplars of the following behaviours and encourage them in staff at all levels; We want staff who are willing to make decisions and be accountable for them. Staff should have a positive can-do attitude where they see problems as challenges which can be overcome. They should accept responsibility for service delivery, be clear about their service offer and deliver what they promise. We want staff who are comfortable and confident to acknowledge the difficulties and the barriers they face. They should also be able to constructively challenge the way things are done where there is evidence that it impedes service delivery. Challenge should be conducted in a professional, courteous manner with the aim of reaching a mutually agreeable resolution. We want staff who are prepared to actively listen and reflect on customer concerns with a view to understanding the customer s point of view. Staff should be able to receive constructive criticism and be prepared to adapt the way they operate and deliver services where appropriate. We want staff who can work collaboratively with other departments and partners, freely sharing their knowledge and skills to identify solutions to address customer concerns.
Education
Must be a Qualified Solicitor/Barrister or Fellow of CILEX and hold a practising certificate.
Employment Type
Full Time
Key Skills
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