£43,421 - £54,702 per annum

Legal Services at Oxfordshire County Council provides key legal and corporate governance advice to all service areas of the council. We have recently re-designed and created a new legal team structure to ensure our legal services can deliver for the future, now. Our new structure has multiple entry routes, clear career progression and career graded pay so you can make the most of your career and development, whilst working for the common good of our communities.

We work collaboratively to meet the service needs in this busy and dynamic area of law.  We work flexibly - in accordance with the agile working policy - from home and from our Oxford office as suits our team members and service needs.
 
About the role
The role sits within a friendly and supportive team who deliver high quality legal work for the Adult Social Care and Litigation Team of Oxfordshire County Council.  

Key responsibilities include:

• To act as a senior and specialist legal advisor

About you
To be successful in the role, you will need:

• Great communication skills both written and oral
• The ability to work effectively, individually and with others, as part of a team supporting child protection work to meet the service’s needs
• To have good organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Strong IT literacy to work with our software systems and support paperless and hybrid working
• To be a Solicitor/CILEX lawyer/barrister with significant experience in subject area and match core competencies Solicitor 1/2 (Legal Services Core Competency Framework)
• Experience of working within a local government legal team/public sector legal team/regulatory team

Rewards and benefits
Working in local government is interesting, innovative, and challenging. The commitment of our teams to public service is key to our delivery of all services including infrastructure.

Oxfordshire has invested time and resource to create an environment where people develop professionally and personally. The Delivering the Future Together framework supports liaison between staff, teams and managers to embed the values of the organisation.   

We offer a supportive induction process to introduce you to colleagues within your team and the wider organisation, and ways of working.

Oxfordshire offers a generous and family-friendly rewards to benefit life both at work and at home:

• Culture of flexible working
• Technology to support agile working where role permits
• Up to 33 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays
• Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
• Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development

Why Oxfordshire?
Oxfordshire has a wonderful balance between beautiful Cotswold countryside and quaint villages and towns against the urban dynamic of the world-renowned university City of Oxford and surrounding market towns. It is a thriving county with one of the fastest growing economies in the country with a rapidly growing science sector in and around the county and is the base for many national and internationally recognised companies and organisations. Oxford has good transport links to London and the rest of the country.

Closing date: 19 May 2024
Interview date: 30 May 2024

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