Lawyer (G10)

.Lincolnshire County Council

Contract, Full Time
Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Category : Legal

Location :Lincolnshire County Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 08:30

End Time : 17:00
Salary: £20.85

PURPOSE OF JOB:

Contribute to the delivery of services for Legal Services Lincolnshire. Assist, as

appropriate, with:

• Providing an integrated approach to performance management, quality

standards and service delivery

• Embedding new ways of thinking and working

• Developing and maintaining strong, positive working relationships with

commissioners, partners external clients and their teams/partners and

across service areas as appropriate

To provide high quality efficient and effective legal and administrative advice and

services to the County Council and external customers and assist and support

the County Council’s Monitoring Officer in discharging his/her duties and

responsibilities.

To provide legal advice to members and senior officers of the Council, partners

and other clients and carry a workload of appropriately complex and high profile,

high risk matters and advise as required on public law and governance in support

of clients’ decision-making processes.

To role model and promote the values and culture of the service including the

highest degrees of flexibility openness and collaboration and the provision of risk-

based, solution focused advice centred on enabling clients to achieve their outcomes.


To role model and promote the values and culture of the service including the

highest degrees of flexibility openness and collaboration and the provision of risk-

based, solution focused advice centred on enabling clients to achieve their

outcomes.

To provide day to day leadership, advice and guidance to colleagues relating to

work within own area of responsibility

Continuously look for synergies and efficiency savings across area of

responsibility.

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MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES, TASKS & DUTIES

The specific accountabilities of this role will be flexible and will change to meet

the needs of the organisation as required but will include (or be equivalent in

nature to) those listed below:i a) To provide high quality efficient and effective legal and administrative

advice and services to the County Council, partners and external

customers to the highest standards of professional conduct and ethics

and in a way that furthers and promotes good customer care within

Legal Services Lincolnshire.

b) To undertake all legal services work whether advice, case work or

assistance to other fee earners as required within the area of work

designated in the post outline for the time being with minimal

supervision and professional support.

c) To give legal procedural and propriety advice to senior officers, elected

members or other persons or bodies whose conduct or activities fall

within the remit of the Monitoring Officer’s duties as appropriate for

grade and to follow all instructions of the Monitoring Officer or any

deputy in relation to the conduct of any monitoring officer activities.

d) To make the Monitoring Officer, the Chief Legal Officer, an Assistant

Chief Legal Officer (or any other deputy) aware of any:-

– matters that are of a critical nature

– matters that are politically sensitive or high profile

– problems in any areas of service delivery or Council activity

– instance in which any advice given by him/her has been refused or

ignored, or

– any proposals, decisions, actions or omissions that have, or would

contravene any rule of law or code of practice or conduct or amount to maladministration.

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