Senior Legal Officer - Truro, United Kingdom - Cornwall Council

Cornwall Council

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Truro, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Senior Lawyer (Childcare)
12 months fixed term maternity cover

Cornwall Council is a large and ambitious Unitary Authority, supported by an experienced and welcoming Legal Service that has a crucial role in providing specialist legal advice to all sectors of the Council, as well as some external organisations.

You will have some ability to work flexibly and from home. Your main office location will be New County Hall, Truro.

You should expect a varied and challenging caseload including:

_Fostering and adoption advice_

- _Legal advice and support to children's services during the PLO process_
- _Advice to schools and academies, including parental responsibility, pupil welfare and safeguarding_
- _School admissions and exclusions, transport, including representation and advice at appeals_
- _SEND, including representation at Tribunals._

This is a varied and interesting role working with a very friendly but busy service.

Don't worry if you don't have local government experience as we'll give you the support you need to develop and learn that area.

A role profile can be found here.

There are many benefits of working for Cornwall Council such as a defined benefit pension scheme, competitive salary, family friendly policies and flexible working.

This role can be carried out largely remotely but with some office-based working as required to support the service needs.

We can discuss this with you during the recruitment process and we are open to discussion about flexible working.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall.

In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g.

race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk.

It's a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

Whilst the location/work-base for this role has been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to also work remotely (e.g. from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.

More information about working for Cornwall Council is available here.

We are open to discussion about flexible working.

For an informal conversation or to obtain more details about the role, please contact Alison White on