Solicitor – Contentious - Aberaeron, United Kingdom - Ceredigion County Council

Description

About the role

We are looking to recruit a Litigation Solicitor to join our contentious team on permanent and part-time basis, to provide comprehensive and legal advice to Chief Officers, Members and Client Service Areas of the Council.

On a day-to -day basis, you will be supporting our Senior Lawyer in the contentious team to undertake work focused on litigation and contentious matters.

You will have conduct of your own varied case load to include matters such as enforcement, environmental health, trading standards, animal health, planning and debt. In addition to dealing with some education and licensing cases.

You will be called upon to prepare legal documentation, in preparation for acting as an advocate on behalf of the Council at Court, Tribunals and other venue, and/or sit on Panels/Sub Committees when needed.

We are looking for an individual who has excellent organisational and communication skills and who has the ability to manage their own case load without supervision. As a candidate, you will have good interpersonal skills with the ability to work positively with a variety of people including our internal and external stakeholders. You will of course be able to remain calm and work under pressure and have the ability to prioritise your work in compliance with Court deadlines.

As an advocate, you will not only provide legal advice to Service Areas, but also have good advocacy skills to represent the Council at various Hearings.

In return, we offer you on-going personal and professional development and will not only provide support to enable you to quickly and confidently take ownership of this role's key areas of responsibility but in addition, we are committed to supporting your development in order that you can progress your career with us.

In exchange for your skills and commitment we will offer you a range of employee benefits including flexible working, competitive annual leave allowance, pension scheme with 14.6% employer contribution, enhanced family benefits, lifestyle savings and employee health and wellbeing packages. More information about our wide-ranging employee benefits can be found

We believe work-life balance is very important. To support you in achieving this, you will have access to the following discretionary benefits:

This role may require bank holiday working. The successful candidate may receive a choice of double time or single time and a day off in lieu.

We welcome applications from non-Welsh speakers. All successful applicants requiring support to learn/improve their Welsh language skills will be offered funded lessons, during work time, to help reach the desired standard.

Job Description and Person Specification

For further information and an informal discussion regarding this post please contract Patricia Armstrong at or on .

To reduce disruption to candidates, interviews will be held remotely. Interviews will be held on 16 January .

Note: We reserve the right to extend the application closing date.

What we offer

Work-life balance

Lifestyle savings scheme

Generous employer pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Learning and development

Where you'll work

We ensure that the Council operates in a responsible and transparent manner by providing corporate and operational legal advice, auditing, objective assurance and support across all service areas resulting in the legal welfare and obligations of the Council being upheld, and assurance provided on governance, risk and internal controls. Our key functions include: