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Legal Officer

🏢 Derby City Council • 📍 Derby, England • 🕒 2 days ago

Salary Range

£32,909 - £33,486

£2,742 - £2,791 / mo

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Derby, England

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68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

Application closing date

02/07/2023

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

Grade: Grade H - £32,909 – £33,486 a year

Contractual hours

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Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Legal

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Job description

Directorate: Corporate Resources

Hours: 37 hours a week

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: The Council House

We are looking for a highly motivated and suitably experienced Legal Officer for this important post. As a member of our busy legal team, your main area of work will be to assist the team in advising and representing the Adult and Health Department in all aspects of community care and mental health law including Court of Protection proceedings. You will also be required to assist the Education Lawyer. You will be expected to hold your own caseload as well as assisting the lawyers with theirs and demonstrate a good technical knowledge of adult social care law. We offer flexible working and the opportunity to carry a varied and stimulating caseload.

You will need to be:

able to demonstrate experience of working in a legal office

able to demonstrate a good knowledge of adult social care law

able to demonstrate experience of working in a local government environment

enthusiastic as well as being a good communicator

able to work under pressure and on your own initiative

be able to give clear pragmatic advice

We provide:

competitive, equal pay with annual increments and increases

interesting work and good colleague support

access to the Local Government pension scheme

work life balance (flexible working and the option of working from home for part of the week)

27 days annual leave plus public holidays, rising to 32 days (plus public holidays) after 5 years’ service

eligibility to apply to purchase additional annual leave

access to funded training up to the equivalent of a master’s degree

To discuss the position call Alison Bush on 01332 643607.

Please be aware that where there are staff within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

If you have enquiries about job vacancies or issues with your application, please contact recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job. For reasons connected with a particular need of the Council it may be appropriate, subject to approval, to appoint to a higher point in the pay grade.

Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form.

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The closing date for this vacancy is 2nd July 2023. Any application forms received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 21st July 2023