[ref. h42466217] Senior Highways Lawyer – Legal Services - Exeter
What's involved with this role:
Interim Senior Lawyer – Legal Services
Job Ref: Devon 5254306Pay Rate: £43.12 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 8.30am to 5pm
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: Exeter, Devon
Basic DBS disclosure required for this role
Alongside remote working, there is an expectation that the postholder will attend committee meetings and Court hearings as required, including as advocate. We anticipate this being no more than once a month.
Please state expected hourly rate on your CV
The Litigation and Planning team is seeking an experienced planning and highways lawyer. In addition to supporting Devon County Council, you will also support two National Park authorities.
They will manage a varied caseload including planning and enforcement advice, remote planning committee attendance and governance support, preparing planning agreements and advising on various aspects of highways and planning law. You will also be expected to offer some supervision to junior members of the team.
Qualifications:
Educated to degree level.Law Society admitted and Solicitor Regulatory Authority registered solicitor, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives or Bar Standards Board registered barrister.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.Experience of planning and highway law is essential.
Adequate experience of managing own workload.
A thorough knowledge of that area of law, good advocacy skills and considerable experience in case management is essential along with demonstrable experience of working in a particular field.
Ability to absorb and interpret legislation, case law and procedures.
Ability to assimilate facts and present these in a coherent fashion in order to facilitate desired result for DCC. It is important to note the impact of incorrect advice and poor advocacy could be financially very significant.
Ability to assimilate detailed and complex information and make judgments on the way that certain procedures have been followed.
Excellent communication and presentational skills both verbal and written including influencing and persuasion.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro).
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.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.
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.
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Job Ref: Devon 5254306
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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