Senior Lawyer - Social Care/Legal Services

What's involved with this role: Interim Senior Lawyer - Social Care/Legal Services Job Ref: Bradford The purpose of the role is to assist the Team Leader and the Deputy Team Leader in the provision of high quality professional legal services to Children's Services and the department of Health and Well Being, primarily in relation to social care law, safeguarding and procedure concerning children and vulnerable adults. To provide supervision and support to more junior staff.Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a senior case holder and advocate, in providing professional legal services to the Children's Services and the Health and Well Being Directorates in relation to legal issues relating to children and vulnerable adults.
• Give legal advice and guidance to the Children's Services and Health and Well Being Directorates and to Committees and Sub-Committees of the Council. This includes being part of the Team Duty Senior Legal Officer rota (in office hours).
• Act under pressure in the face of competing demands arising from emergency and urgent situations.
• Co-ordinate the work relating to Social Care matters, to ensure that cases are prepared to professional standards and in compliance with relevant legislation, Regulations, Statutory Guidance, Practice Directions and the Public Law Outline and to ensure that Court commitments and deadlines are properly met.
• Provide supervision and support to more junior staff.
• Deliver training to colleagues, clients and elected members.
• Undertake such duties as may be allocated by the Team Leader or Deputy Team Leader, to include the preparation of reports, advice and guidance.
• Advise Committees, Sub-Committees, Members, Officers and any organisation with which the Council has a formal arrangement for the giving of advice.
• Provide professional legal services to the Council departments and to the Children's Services and Adults and Health and Well Being Directorates as may be required from time to time.
• Assist other public authorities within the West Yorkshire area on legal matters as may be required from time to time.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside - there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please