Role: Lawyer Advocate REF (phone number removed)
Contract Length: Until April 2025
Location: Hybrid/Gloucester - court attendance will be required once a month.
IR35: Outside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £55 per hour
 

Spinwell is recruiting for a Lawyer Advocate for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LAWYER ADVOCATE

• To provide high quality legal services
• Undertake advocacy and represent the Council in the Court arena.
• To represent Legal Services, the Council and external clients in meetings, including committee and member meetings, inquiries and working groups and in discussions with other legal practitioners at an appropriate level as and when required
• Contribute to the development and delivery of legal services.
• Exhibit the employee behaviours as indicated in the Council’s People Strategy.
• Ability to deal with sensitive issues with tact and confidentially.
• Ability to provide innovative, creative advice to clients in a pressurised environment
• Highly developed negotiating and listening skills with various groups of people and in a variety of different settings, including some of which may potentially end in conflict

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE LAWYER ADVOCATE

• Experienced child care lawyer.
• Ability to attend court hearings at least once a month.
• Qualified barrister, Solicitor or a Chartered Legal Executive
• Membership of the relevant professional body
• Experience of undertaking advocacy in court together with contested hearings requiring the cross examination of witnesses in court.
• Experience of working in local government
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to be able to advise members, staff, other organisations and members of the public courteously and efficiently in person and by telephone. 
• Good research and problem solving skills with ability to convey complex legal and factual issues to various audiences.
• Ability to work collaboratively with professionals and client departments in order to build excellent working relationships and one which is supportive to the client department.
• Ability to share knowledge and expertise to develop colleagues and clients and to be part of a team.
• Good research and IT skills including the ability to use a case management system
• To be conversant with Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel.

If you are a Lawyer Advocate, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.

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