£41,511 - £52,805 per annum

A welcome payment of £5000 will be offered to a suitable candidate with appropriate experience.

Hybrid working arrangements are available with a large degree of flexibility around home working.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced adult social care lawyer to join our well regarded, friendly and supportive Adult Social Care legal team.  The focus of the team is on enabling quality service delivery, working in partnership with the client department to help ensure positive outcomes for adults within the city of Leicester.  

You will hold responsibility for a diverse and rewarding caseload of adult social care and related matters, providing quality legal advice and support including undertaking advocacy for the Council.   

This is a career graded post (LG Band 9-LG Band 11). Appointment to a level will depend on the outcome of the selection process and experience of the successful candidate.  Progression will be by satisfactory performance, agreed at annual appraisals and through on-going supervision.

What you will need

You will have post qualification experience of adult social care cases including mental health, community care and judicial review.  You will have demonstrable advocacy, negotiating and advisory skills together with a good appreciation of risk management. You will be highly motivated with strong organisational skills and a pro-active approach which will ensure that you are able to successfully prioritise work. Your excellent communication skills, both written and oral, will ensure that you are able to work with a wide of people and represent the service in a professional, client focused manner.

What we can offer you

Leicester City Council is an exciting and innovative place to work.  We offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. This includes a flexi-time scheme, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and a generous holiday entitlement.  For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.  We work hard to ensure that our people are well supported, both at a senior level and by your peers.  We will also give you the chance to both use your professional skills and expertise and develop new ones with a variety of training and development opportunities.

We are 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 have designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We will do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

If you are an Adult Social Care Lawyer looking for your next role and this sounds like your kind of place, then please get in touch.  Candidates from both Local Government and Private Practice are welcomed.  

If you would like an informal chat about this post, please contact Susan Holmes, Head of Law, Social Care & Safeguarding Tel: 0116 454 1402 or email susan.holmes@leicester.gov.uk

Interview/Assessments will take place week commencing 24th March 2025.

Closing date: 16 March 2025

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