Are you a Qualified Lawyer who has experience in providing advice on complex range of property, highways, and planning transactions?

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Lawyer to join our service working within the Property, Highways and Planning Team. Working within the friendly and supportive team, you’ll report directly to the Principal Lawyer (Property, Highways & Planning) and work collaboratively with other Lawyers and occasionally external stakeholders. We offer flexible working, inclusive of home working with dedicated legal support, promoting a healthy work life balance. This is your chance to make a difference and join a professional and experienced team of lawyers.

As a Qualified Lawyer with experience in Property, Highways and Planning Law, you’ll confidently and competently advise and support the property, highways, and planning functions of the Council, including the governance around the planning function and decision making, occasionally providing legal advice to the Council as developer. Dealing primarily with cases within your area of specialism you’ll develop your own skills and experience whilst working closely with other legal teams and areas.

This is a full-time, fixed term post for 9 months, working 37 hours a week from Monday to Friday.

This is a career graded post Level A to C. Appointment to a level will depend on the outcome of the selection process and experience of the successful candidate. Dependent on availability of work/vacancy at a higher level, progress will be by satisfactory performance, agreed at annual Appraisals and through on-going supervision.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll provide secure high-quality legal services, advice on all aspects of property law, highways law and planning law and work closely with the Council’s departments to support the Council’s functions. You’ll routinely attend and advise at Planning Committees. Using your expertise, you’ll provide solutions focused property, highways and planning law advice and support to the Council and other public bodies.

What you’ll need

As a highly skilled lawyer, you’ll have significant knowledge of Property, Highways and Planning Law and practice. With the ability to work as part of a team, you’ll ensure the provision of quality, client focussed and cost-effective legal services. Using strong communication skills, you’ll build and manage external relationships with clients carrying through assigned tasks and matters to conclusion. Pragmatic in your advice, talented, and proactive, you’ll work effectively with client departments to find solutions.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

Join us

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Zoe Iliffe, Principal Lawyer (Property, Highways & Planning) or Kevin Carter, Head of Law (Commercial & Property) – 0116 454 4197

To apply, simply click on Apply Online, complete your personal details and attach your CV or supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria.

Closing date: 1 October 2024
Interview date: 14 October 2024

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