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Head of Law - Litigation, Housing and Planning

Employer
South London Legal Partnership
Location
Wandsworth, London (Greater)
Salary
£72,154- £76,243 per annum
Closing date
1 May 2018

Job Details

Head of Law - Litigation, Housing and Planning

£72,154- £76,243 per annum, (inclusive of annually reviewable market supplement of £10,000)

The South London Legal Partnership (SLLP) is looking for a Head of Law (Litigation, Housing and Planning) to help lead and drive the delivery of excellent legal services to the London Boroughs of Wandsworth, Richmond, Merton, Sutton and to the Royal Borough Kingston Upon Thames.

Working within one of the country’s largest legal shared services you will lead a team of 30 in providing high quality legal service to five boroughs. You will also provide governance and strategic corporate legal support across the Boroughs, including acting as Deputy Monitoring Officer when required.

You will be confident in providing advice to Councillors, Chief Executives and Senior Officers and have a dynamic and forward thinking approach to the shaping of legal services in an ever changing landscape.

Our goal is to be the best in house local government legal service in the country; innovative, customer focused and adaptable. We see this role as a key part of enabling us to achieve our ambitions.

For more information on this exciting role please call Fiona Thomsen (Head of Shared Legal Service) on 020 8545 3897.

Closing Date: 12 Noon, 1st May 2018

Company

About South London Legal Partnership
 
The South London Legal Partnership is hosted by the London Borough of Merton.
 
It is  a five borough shared service providing comprehensive and high quality legal services to combining the legal teams from Merton, Richmond, Kingston, Sutton and Wandsworth Councils.
 
South London Legal Partnership is divided into four teams:
 
Property and Commercial Team
– The team provides legal advice and support in relation to procurement, contracts, property and employment matters for all councils.
 
Litigation, Housing and Planning Team
– The team litigates on behalf of all the Councils in the civil and criminal courts. The team also advises on all planning and highways matters.
 
Social Care and Education
– the team provides legal advice and support to adults’ and children’s social care teams as well as to the education teams for all councils.
 
Practice Management Team – the team supports the legal service by providing administrative support to the legal officers and practice management support and information to legal services managers.
 
The service has two main office hubs in Wandsworth and Morden but there is flexibility to work across all 5 council  locations .

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